The Niagara Literary Arts Festival presents Stacey May Fowles and Sean Johnston

Friday, November 1, 2013 - 7:00pm

Fine Grind Café
37 James Street
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 5B4

The Niagara Literary Arts Festival
presents
Stacey May Fowles and Sean Johnston

Friday November 1st @ 700pm

Fine Grind Cafe
37 James Street, St. Catharines

Stacey May Fowles is a writer and magazine professional living in Toronto. Her first novel, Be Good, was published by Tightrope Books in 2007. This Magazine called it “probably the most finely realized small press novel to come out of Canada in the last year.” In fall 2008 she released an illustrated novel, Fear of Fighting, and staged a theatrical adaptation of it with Nightwood Theatre. The novel was later selected as a National Post Canada Also Reads pick for 2010.

Her writing has appeared in various magazines and journals, including The Walrus, Taddle Creek, Prism, and Maisonneuve. She has been widely anthologized in Nobody Passes: Rejecting The Rules of Gender and Conformity; First Person Queer; Yes Means Yes; I.V. Lounge Nights; and PEN Canada’s Finding The Words. Most recently, she co-edited the anthology She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out and fighting back.

She currently works at The Walrus, and is a regular contributor to The National Post. Her latest novel, Infidelity, is out with ECW press in fall 2013.

Sean Johnston is the author of The Ditch Was Lit Like This (Thistledown, 2011), All This Town Remembers (Gaspereau, 2006) and A Day Does Not Go By (Nightwood, 2002), which won the 2003 ReLit Award for short fiction. He lives in Kelowna, BC, where he co-edits Ryga: A Journal of Provocations and teaches at Okanagan College.