The Real Resident Reading Series presents John Lavery

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 7:00pm

The Grad Club @ Queens University
162 Barrie Street (at Union)
Kingston, ON
K7L 3K1

Queen's University Writer-in-Residence Stuart Ross presents the fifth in his fall reading series with two more fantastic writers, plus himself, and a great musician! Free admission! Event runs from 7-10pm.

* They read. You listen. Then you can ask them stuff.*

BEN WALKER has been releasing cassettes and CDs of his eclectic songs since his teenage days. Born in Suffolk, UK, he has been back and forth across the ocean and has recently made Toronto his home. In 2008, he transformed 15 of Stuart Ross's poems into folk, pop, jazz and blues songs. The resultant CD is An Orphan's Song: Ben Walker Sings Stuart Ross. Ben will be playing some of these songs tonight. You can discover more about Ben and his music at benwalkersongs.com.

STUART ROSS is the current writer-in-residence at Queen's University. An editor, workshop leader, poet, essayist, and fictioneer, he is the author of 12 trade books and countless chapbooks and literary ephemera. His recent books include the poetry collections I Cut My Finger and Dead Cars In Managua, the ReLit Prize–winning short-story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, and the essay collection Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. In the spring, ECW Press releases Stuart's first novel, Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew.

ANNE McLEAN is a renowned Spanish-English translator. She was born in Hamilton, lived for a time in Central America, relocated to Yorkshire, UK, and now lives in Toronto. She is the only person to have won the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. She has translated the works of such Spanish-language legends as Julio Cortazar, Javier Cercas, Evelio Rosero, and Enrique Vila-Matas. Her artful translations have been widely feted in the Guardian, the Times, the Indepedent, the New York Times Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.

JOHN LAVERY is the author of two acclaimed story collections, Very Good Butter and You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off. Very Good Butter was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and Lavery has twice been a finalist in the annual Prism International fiction contest. His stories have appeared in This Magazine, Canadian Forum, the Ottawa Citizen, and the London Spectator, as well as in the Journey Prize Anthology. His first novel, Sandra Beck, was released this season to enthusiastic critical acclaim. John is also an accomplished musician and songwriter; in addition to reading, he'll be sharing a few songs with us tonight. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec.

This series is generously sponsored by the Department of English @ Queen's University and the Canada Council for the Arts.

More info: http://www.queensu.ca/english/eventsNov.html.