News in brief – week of Sept. 25, 2024

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Library names Nora Decter writer-in-residence

Winnipeg author Nora Decter will be the Winnipeg Public Library’s 2024-25 writer-in-residence, the library confirmed last week.

Decter is the author of the young adult novel How Far We Go and How Fast, which won the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction. Her debut adult novel, What’s Not Mine, was published this past spring by ECW Press. She grew up in Winnipeg’s North End and studied writing at York University in Toronto and Stony Brook University in Southampton, NY.

The writer-in-residence program runs annually from Oct. 1 to April 30 at the WPL’s Millennium Library location. It offers new and emerging writers from Manitoba free one-on-one consultations, group workshops and a writing circle. For more information, see: www.winnipeg.ca

Manitoba Loud Music Awards to be held Sept. 28

The fourth annual Manitoba Loud Music Awards will pierce the air at the Park Theatre (698 Osborne St.) on Saturday, Sept. 28.

The event celebrates contributions to the province’s heavy music scene with a number of different awards for musicians, photographers, podcasters, videographers, and more. Canadian metal legends Voivod will perform live, accompanied by Osyron, and local acts The Haileys, Ram Skull, Sansregret, and School of Rock.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the show starting at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 and available at myparktheatre.com

—Staff