I'm terribly pleased to announce my first really real public appearance as an author...
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Wednesday September 14, 2011 8PM - 11PM
152 Augusta Avenue, Toronto
Join the
Chiaroscuro Reading Series for a night of deliciously chilling stories featuring Katherine Govier, Helen Marshall and Mark Sedore.
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Katherine Govier is the author of nine novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel
The Ghost Brush is about the daughter of the famous Japanese printmaker, Hokusai, creator of
The Great Wave. Her novel
Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. Katherine's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the United Kingdom, the United States, and throughout the Commonwealth, and in translation in Holland, Italy, Turkey, and Slovenia. She is the winner of Canada's Marian Engel Award for a woman writer (1997) and the Toronto Book Award (1992).
Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003.
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| Me dressed like a zombie. |
Aurora-nominated poet Helen Marshall (manuscriptgal.com) is an author, editor, and self-proclaimed bibliophile. Her poetry has been published in
ChiZine, NFG, Abyss & Apex and the long-running
Tesseracts anthology series. "Mist and Shadows," published originally in Star*Line, appeared in
The 2006 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2005. She recently released a collection of poems entitled
Skeleton Leaves from Kelp Queen Press and her collection of short stories
Hair Side, Flesh Side is forthcoming from ChiZine Publications in 2013.
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He wrote Snowmen in three days.
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Mark Sedore is a professional writer and a graduate student. He has an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and a second in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson Universities. Mark has worked as a writer for the mayor’s office in Toronto and he currently works as a staff writer for the University of Toronto.
Snowmen is his first published novel.
HAIR SIDE, FLESH SIDE is a book about books. The collection has been inspired in part by my work in medieval studies on fourteenth century manuscripts. The usual material for writing on in medieval books or documents was parchment made from the skin of sheep, goats or calves. When the treatment was complete, the hair side of the animal skin (the part originally on the outside of the animal) could be distinguished from the flesh side (the part on the inside). The short stories of the collection pick up on the themes of history, permanence and what it means to make art -- with some funny, sexy bits in between.