Day One

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In Person Fiction Non-Fict Poetry

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Thursday

Apr , 2020

5:00pm

Eastern

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Anthony De Sa · Photo by Laura Bombier Irvine Welsh · Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Jordan Abel · Photo by Tenille Campbell Kaie Kellough · Photo by Frank Schemmann Photography

As we practice physical distancing, let us stay close to each other in our thoughts, prayers and acts of kindness. The only thing more contagious than COVID-19 is a smile.

Today’s guest authors would have been:

Jordan Abel

Anthony De Sa and Kaie Kellough

And

Irvine Welsh

Please consider supporting the amazing authors that were set to be with us this Spring. Spring author bios now include a link to their work via Perfect Books on Elgin Street.

The Authors

Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several North American literary magazines. He attended The Humber School for Writers and now heads the English department and directs the creative writing program at a high school for the arts. Barnacle Love, his first book, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His next book, Kicking the Sky, was a national bestseller. Anthony lives in Toronto with his wife and three sons. Shop locally if you can: Books by Anthony De Sa are available from Perfect Books.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the scene of his first book: the hugely successful Trainspotting. That book shot Welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film version by Danny Boyle. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction, including Rave and The Blade Artist. He currently lives in the United States. Shop locally if you can: Books by Irvine Welsh are available from Perfect Books.

Jordan Abel

Jordan Abelis a Nisga'a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel's work has recently been anthologized in The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward), The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Anstruther), Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope), Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), and The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP). Abel's work has been published in numerous journals and magazines--including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, and Poetry Is Dead--and his visual poetry has been included in exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery, UNIT/PITT Gallery, and the Oslo Pilot Project Room in Oslo, Norway. Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.

Kaie Kellough

Kaie Kellough is a poet, fiction writer, and sound performer living in Montreal. His previous collection,Magnetic Equator, won the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is a writer and vocalist for the group FYEAR and is pursuing graduate work in English at Queen’s University.