Writers Out Loud



The schedule for the Writers Out Loud 2008 series. Hope to see you there!

JULIAN SHER and WILLIAM MARSDEN
Thursday May 29, 2008, 7:30pm
Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library: 5851 Cavendish Blvd., Côte Saint-Luc
Presented by the QWF in collaboration with the Eleanor London Library

WILLIAM MARSDEN is the co-author (with Julian Sher) of the international bestsellers Angels of Death (Knopf Canada, 2006) and The Road to Hell (Knopf Canada, 2004), which was a #1 national bestseller, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book and was a finalist for The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner of two National Newspaper Awards and three Judith Jasmin Awards, he is the senior investigative reporter for The Gazette in Montreal. Marsden also co-authored The Water Barons and co-produced documentaries on the Hells Angels water privatization.

JULIAN SHERis a documentary writer and director and the author of five international best-selling books. He wrote and directed a New York Times-CBC TV investigation called “Nuclear Jihad” which won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in 2006. His books on crime and the justice system, including One Child at a Time (Random House, 2007), have been translated into four languages and sold in seven countries. His latest book, Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators (Avalon Publishing Group 2007), has been hailed by reviewers as “riveting” “eye-opening and “gripping.” His writings have appeared on the front page of the New York Times, the cover of Maclean’s magazine and the OpEd page of USA Today.



TARAS GRESCOE
Friday September 19, 2008, time TBA
Morrin Centre, Quebec City: 44, chaussée des Écossais
Presented by the QWF in collaboration with the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec

TARAS GRESCOE wrote Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2000), a Canadian best-seller that was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Award. His most recent book is The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (HarperCollins, 2006). He is currently working on Bottomfeeder: A Seafood Lover's Journey to the End of the Food Chain, which will be published by HarperCollins (Toronto), Bloomsbury (New York), and Macmillan (London) in spring 2008. His works have been translated into five different languages, and he has won several national magazine awards.



ADAM LEITH GOLLNER, hosted by Sarah Musgrave
Tuesday October 21, 2008, 6pm
Casa Del Popolo: 4873 boul. St-Laurent

ADAM LEITH GOLLNER’s first book of non-fiction, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure, will be published in 2008 by Scribner (U.S.) and Doubleday Canada. He has written for the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Gourmet, and Maclean’s. He has been the editor of Vice Magazine and an associate editor at Maisonneuve. He plays music and lives in Montreal.

Host SARAH MUSGRAVE is a Montreal-based food and travel journalist. Formerly the managing editor of the Montreal Mirror, she is now the casual dining critic for the Gazette newspaper. In addition to contributing to numerous magazines and writing for children’s television, she is the author of Resto à Gogo: 200 Cheap and Fun Places to Eat in Montreal (ECW Press, 2003), now in its second edition, and the co-author of Moon Metro Montreal (Avalon Travel Publishing, 2004) and Formac city guides. She is currently completing a graduate research project on food appellations funded by the Quebec government.



MARY SODERSTROM, hosted by Mark Abley
Tuesday November 4, 2008, 7pm
Salle Alec et Gérrard Pelletier: 4-C rue Maple, Sutton QC
Presented by the QWF in collaboration with Librairie Le Livre d’or

MARY SODERSTROM is a Montreal writer of fiction and non-fiction. The Violets of Usambara, her fourth novel, was published in Spring 2008 by Cormorant Books. Her newest non-fiction book will be published in fall 2008 by Véhicule Press. The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond is a follow-up to Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places (Véhicule Press) which was named one of The Globe and Mail's Best 100 Books of 2007.

Host MARK ABLEY is a non-fiction writer, poet, journalist, children's writer, editor and jack-of-all-trades living in Pointe Claire. His book Spoken Here: Travesl Among Threatened Languages (2003) was translated into French, Spanish and Japanese, and shortlisted for two major awards. Mark is a Rhodes Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a winner of the National Newspaper Award. His latest book is The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From the Future of English.


In addition to the events listed above, special Writers Out Loud events are planned for students at Lower Canada College and the Montreal Children’s Library. Details will be posted on this website as they are confirmed.



Writers Out Loud, come and gone...2008 Events that have already passed:

ENDRE FARKAS, hosted by Jason Camlot
Tuesday March 25, 2008, 6pm
Casa Del Popolo: 4873 boul. St-Laurent

ENDRE FARKAS is a poet who has published eleven books of poetry, the most recent being Quotidian Fever: New and Selected 1974-2007 (The Muses’ Company, 2007). His poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Slovenian and Turkish. He has given readings across Canada, in Europe and Chile. He has won the CBC Poetry Face Off in Quebec twice. He is also a playwright and has created theatrical poetry performance pieces since the mid seventies. His play The Haunted House about the poet A. M. Klein will be presented by The Saydie Bronfman Theatre in 2009.

Host JASON CAMLOT is the author of two collections of poetry, The Animal Library (DC Books, 2001) and Attention All Typewriters (DC Books, 2005). A third poetry collection will be published by Insomniac Press in Spring, 2008. His critical works include Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule, 2007; co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Ashgate, 2008). His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in such journals as New American Writing, Postmodern Culture and English Literary History. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford and is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

HEATHER O'NEILL, hosted by David McGimpsey
Thursday April 10, 2008, 7:30pm
Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library: 5851 Cavendish Blvd., Côte Saint-Luc
Presented by the QWF in collaboration with the Eleanor London Library

HEATHER O'NEILL is the author of the bestselling novel Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperCollins, 2006), which won the 2007 Canada Reads competition and has been nominated for Books in Canada/Amazon.ca first novel award. Among others, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine and the radio programs Wiretap and This American Life.

Host DAVID MCGIMPSEY is the author of four collections of poetry (Lardcake, Dogboy, Hamburger Valley, California, and Sitcom) and one collection of short stories (Certifiable). David McGimpsey has a PhD in English Literature and is the author of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture. His travel writings frequently appear in The Globe and Mail and he writes the “Sandwich of the Month” column for EnRoute magazine. David McGimpsey currently lives in Montreal and teaches at Concordia University.