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Rebecca Kraatz at the Killam

March 8, 7:30 pm
Room 2616
Killam Library
494-3615 for more info






The Dalhousie Libraries are delighted to host a special presentation by award-winning graphic artist, cartoonist and writer Rebecca Kraatz. Rebecca will be in the library giving an illustrated talk about her acclaimed graphic novel Snaps (Conundrum Press, 2011).

Snaps takes place during World War II in a small town on Vancouver Island. Combining magic realism with pulp dialogue, the interweaving narrative is told from various points of view. Soldiers, seniors, working women, and children tell their “slice of life” stories in brief vignettes, like snapshots in the 1940s photo album which Rebecca found at a flea market and from which she originally drew inspiration.

Born in the Okanagan Valley, raised on the Alberta prairies and Vancouver Island, Rebecca Kraatz currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her comic collection House Of Sugar, compiled from comics she contributed to The Coast, won the 2007 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. Rebecca is married to Halifax rocker Joel Plaskett.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

Visit Rebecca’s website.

Kathleen Winter Reading at Killam

Author Kathleen Winter, winner of the 2011 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize for her bestselling debut novel Annabel, will be giving a reading at the Killam Library. All are welcome!


Thursday November 17, 7:30 pm
DUASC Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
Dalhousie University
494-3615 for more information

Kathleen Winter has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. Her first collection of short stories, boYs (Biblioasis, 2007) was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the 2006 Metcalfe-Rooke Award. Her novel Annabel, published in 2010 by House of Anansi Press, became a #1 bestseller in Canada. It won the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, and the Orange Prize. It has also just made the longlist for the prestigious IMPAC award!

Annabel is the story of a mysterious child born into the hunting culture of 1968 Labrador. The baby’s mystery lies in the fact that it is both boy and girl at once. Raised as a boy named Wayne, he grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, but his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as Annabel — is never entirely extinguished, and is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.

“Haunting, sweeping in scope […] Annabel is a compelling debut novel about one person’s struggle to discover the truth in a culture that shuns contradiction.”
www.anansi.ca

This event is sponsored by the Canadian Literary Collections Project.

Author Norman Ravvin To Read at Killam

Norman Ravvin, author of the critically acclaimed The Joyful Child (Gaspereau Press, 2011), will be giving a reading from his novel at the Killam Library on October 20. All are welcome!

Norman Ravvin is a fiction writer, critic and journalist. His previous books include the novel Lola by Night (2003), which is also out in Serbian translation; Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue (2001); the novel Café des Westens (1991); and his story collection Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish (1997).

Norman is the editor of Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories (2001) and Great Stories of the Sea (1999). He is currently working on a novel set in Poland called The Typewriter Girl. Norman has won the Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism New Fiction Award the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Award, as well as the Toronto Jewish Book Award and Montreal’s J.I. Segal Prize for Literature.

Thursday October 20, 7:30 pm
DUASC Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
Dalhousie University
494-3615 for more info

Read about The Joyful Child on Norman Ravvin’s website

The Old Master: A Bob Dylan Tribute

May 24, 2011, 7 pm
DUASC Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
494-3615

Come join us to hear Halifax novelist and poet Andy Wainwright read his short fiction tribute to Bob Dylan , who turns 70 this year on May 24. Happy birthday Bob!

Andy Wainwright is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English at Dalhousie. He has written extensively about Dylan and taught a course called “Bob Dylan and the Literature of the Sixties.” See Dal News article Ballad of a Thin Man



One of the many Dylan recordings in our Music Collection

One of the many Dylan recordings in our Music Collection

Poetry Reading by Anne Simpson

Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Simpson, currently Dalhousie Writer-in-Residence with the Department of English, will read from her forthcoming collection of poems Is.

Anne Simpson was the winner of the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for her second poetry book, Loop, and she will soon release her fourth poetry collection Is. Her most recent novel, Falling, won the Dartmouth Fiction Award and was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. She has also written a book of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness, published by the small yet mighty Gaspereau Press.

Anne has worked previously as a Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick (2002-2003), and as Artist-in-Residence in the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie University (2004).

This event is sponsored by the Canadian Literary Collections Project. Please phone 494-3615 for more information.

March 24, 7:30 pm
DUASC Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY

Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky

This evening at 7:30 in the Killam Library, writer and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell will be reading excerpts from her novel Under This Unbroken Sky, winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.

Read our own Ian Colford’s review of Under This Unbroken Sky, and the Dal News interview with Shandi.

See you at the reading!

Shandi Mitchell Reading at Killam

7:30 pm, Thursday October 28
Special Collections Reading Room
5th Floor, Killam Library
494-3615 for more info

The Killam Library is proud to host a reading by the winner of the 2010 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, local writer and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell.

Shandi graduated from Dal with a degree in English and Theatre. Her award-winning short films have been featured at festivals across North America. In 2008, she was awarded the Canada Council’s Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts.

Her debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky was simultaneously published by Penguin Canada, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Harper Collins (US) in August 2009. It has sold in nine countries, including translation rights for Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch and Italian. Under This Unbroken Sky won the 2010 Commonwealth Regional Prize for First Book (Canada/Caribbean), the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award.

This reading is hosted by Dalhousie University Archives & Special Collections, holders of the Thomas Head Raddall Collection, and is sponsored by the Canadian Literary Collections Project. Visit the CLCP website for further information!