Spotlight on Coach House Books

Hosted by Evan Munday

In Person Fiction Poetry

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Collected Works Bookstore

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Gabe Foreman

Founded in 1965, Coach House has always maintained a dual role in Canadian letters by both publishing and printing books. We celebrate one of Canada’s most important presses, launching four of their Spring titles: The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, the latest novel by writer and actor Sean Dixon; Monoceros, by Commonwealth Writers’ Prize nominee Suzette Mayr; Match, the debut collection from poet Helen Guri; and A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People, by Montreal poet Gabe Foreman.

The Authors

Gabe Foreman

Gabe Foreman was born in Thunder Bay. He has worked as a tree planter in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. He’s a co-founder of littlefishcartpress, and his writing has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Grain, Fiddlehead and Event. His work placed second in CV2’s two-day poem contest and a selection was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. Currently, he lives in Montreal, where he manages the soup kitchen at a long-established mission.

Helen Guri

Helen Guri graduated from the University of Toronto’s Creative Writing program, and has taught writing at Humber College. Her work has appeared in many Canadian journals, including Arc, Descant, Event, Fiddlehead and Grain. Match is her first collection. She lives in Toronto.

Sean Dixon

Sean Dixon is a novelist, playwright and banjo player. His first novel, The Girls Who Saw Everything, is about a young women’s book club in Montreal that opts to read the first book ever written, on its original stone tablets. It’s been published all over the English-speaking world and translated into Romanian. He is the author of two books for young readers, The Feathered Cloak and The Winter Drey, and many plays. Currently he is writing a new play involving Ovid and the banjo.

Suzette Mayr

Suzette Mayr is the author of the novels Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Monoceros, Moon Honey, The Widows, and Venous Hum. The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada- Caribbean region, and has been translated into German. Moon Honey was short- listed for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Best First Book and Best Novel Awards. Monoceros won the ReLit Award, the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, and shortlisted for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. She and her partner live in a house in Calgary close to a park teeming with coyotes.