Past Events - Part 4

5 Nov – Read for the Cure Calgary

Thursday, November 5, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
The Westin Hotel ~ 320 4 Ave SW, Calgary

Join Camilla Gibb, Colleen Jones and Nino Ricci at Read for the Cure Calgary, in support of The Cancer Research Society, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the B.C. Cancer Foundation.

6:30: Nibbles and cash bar
7:30: Introductory remarks
7:45: Author presentations
9:00: Q & A
9:15: Book signings

Your ticket includes books by all three authors and delicious finger food as well as the opportunity to hear the authors talk about their lives and work and to meet them afterwards when they will be available to sign their books. The Emcee for the evening will be Kris Demeanor, Calgary’s first Poet Laureate.

Buy your tickets online at Ticketweb or call them at 1-888-222-6608.

4 Nov – Winnipeg

~ An Evening with Nino Ricci ~

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ~ 7 PM
Grant Park in the Atrium
Grant Park Shopping Centre ~ 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg

Nino reads from Sleep before joining host Neil Besner in conversation. A book signing will follow. Co-presented by McNally Robinson and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival as part of their collaborative Fall Literary Series.

Born in Montreal, Neil Besner grew up in Brazil and was educated in Brazil, the U.S., and Canada. He has taught Canadian literature at the University of Winnipeg since 1987, and is currently Provost and Vice-President. He writes mainly on Canadian literature, with books on Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro; among other books are several edited and co-edited collections and an award-winning translation from Portuguese into English of the Brazilian biography of Elizabeth Bishop.

30 Oct – IFOA Markham

Friday, October 30, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM

Markham Village Public Library

6031 York Regional Rd 7 ~ Markham, Ontario

Join Giles Blunt, Nino Ricci and Owen Sheers at the Markham Village Public Library on Friday, October 30 at 6:30pm for a wine and international cuisine reception followed by readings of their latest works.

For tickets, please order online.

In partnership with Markham Arts Council and Markham Public Library

Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay. He spent 20 years in New York City as a writer and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order and Night Heatbefore making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the six novels in the bestselling Cardinal crime series, which he is currently adapting as a television series for CTV. He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger. Blunt presents The Hesitation Cut, a psychological suspense novel about jealousy and obsession.

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into 10 languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. He is also the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. He presents his second novel, I Saw a Man, an utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets and the transformative power of words.

29 Oct – IFOA Parry Sound

Thursday, October 29, 2015 ~ 7:30 PM
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
2 Bay Street, Parry Sound

Join authors Marina Endicott, Anne Enright, Nino Ricci and Deanna Young at The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts on October 29 at 7:30pm for a reading of their latest works, part of the 2015 International Festival of Authors.

For tickets and more information, please visit the The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts or call the centre at 705-746-4466 or 1-877-746-4466.

In partnership with Parry Sound Books.

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott is the author of Good to a Fault, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean) and was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She also received recognition forThe Little Shadows, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, andOpen Arms, which was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Endicott has been an actor, director, playwright and editor, and currently teaches at the University of Edmonton. She presents Close to Hugh, an exuberant and poignant novel about how two generations navigate rites of passage in a seemingly ordinary small town.

Anne Enright

Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Fiction Award for her novel The Gathering, which became a longtime national bestseller in Canada. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, and the internationally acclaimed novel The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Enright presents her latest novel, The Green Road, a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.

Deanna Young

Deanna Young’s writing has appeared in journals across Canada and in 2013 she received the grand prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. She lives in Ottawa where she co-directs the Tree Reading Series. Young presents her third collection of poetry, House Dreams, which was a finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award. House Dreams is a haunting sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman’s life story.

27 Oct – Ottawa Writers’ Festival

26 Oct – Mayor’s Evening for the Arts

Monday, October 26, 2015 – 6 PM – Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Join John Tory and some of the city’s most celebrated artists at a gala event in support of the Toronto Arts Foundation.

25 Oct – The Sunday Brunch

Mimosas, Croissants and Coffee

Sunday, October 25, 2015 ~ 11:00am ~ Vancouver Writers Fest

Performance Works ~ 1218 Cartwright Street ~ Granville Island

Join Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Lauren Groff, Steven Hayward, Sigal Samuel, Neil Smith and Nino Ricci for the fabulous Sunday Brunch on the closing day of the 2015 Vancouver Writers Fest. Hosted by the inimitable Bill Richardson.

24 Oct – VWF continues

Freedom of Expression

Saturday, October 24, 2015 ~ 10:30am

Granville Island Stage ~ 1585 Johnston Street ~ Granville Island

Shauna Singh Baldwin, Roxane Gay, Lawrence Hill and Nino Ricci discuss some of the complex issues arising from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre and other recent attacks on freedom of expression. Hosted by Festival Director Hal Wake.

23 Oct – Vancouver Writers Fest

Mind Games

Friday, October 23, 2015 ~ 6:00pm to 7:15pm ~ Vancouver Writers Fest

Studio 1398, 3rd Floor, Festival House, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island

Anakana Schofield, John Vaillant and Nino Ricci talk about how the mind makes sense of the world in fiction.

20 Oct – Bolen Books, Victoria

Marina Endicott & Nino Ricci

6 PM ~ Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 – Bolen Books, Victoria

#111-1644 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, B.C.

Bolen Books of Victoria presents another double header event in its 40th anniversary autumn author event series. Novelists Marina Endicott and Nino Ricci present their new novels with short readings followed by a Q&A and signings. Admission is free, but seating is limited.

18 Oct – Whistler Writers Festival

Authors’ Brunch

Sunday, 18 October 2015 ~11 AM – 1 PM

Wildflower Room, Fairmount Chateau Whistler

Grant Lawrence hosts a brunch and discussion with award winning authors Camilla Gibb, Catherine Hunter, Marina Endicott, Amanda Lindhout, Nino Ricci, and Steve Toltz.

15 Oct – Bookfest Windsor

BookFest Windsor Presents Nino Ricci

Thursday, 15 October 2015 ~ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Capitol Theatre Windsor

The 2015 BookFest Windsor’s grand opening with Leamington native Nino Ricci as he launches his new book Sleep in a feature interview with Windsor’s Ted Shaw.

Thursday, November 5, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM The Westin Hotel ~ 320 4 Ave SW, Calgary