Real Resident Reading Series welcomes Maharaj, McFadden and Smart

Monday, November 8, 2010 - 6:30pm

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

Queen's University Writer-in-Residence Stuart Ross presents the fourth in his fall reading series with three more fantastic writers! Free admission!

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

RABINDRANATH MAHARAJ is the author of five novels and three short story collections. Born and raised in Trinidad, he immigrated to Canada in the early '90s and now lives in Ajax, Ontario. His books include the novels The Amazing A...bsorbing Boy (Knopf, 2010), A Perfect Pledge (Knopf, 2005; finalist for both the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize); The Lagahoo’s Apprentice (Knopf, 2000; named a Notable Book of the Year by both the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star); and Homer in Flight (Goose Lane Editions, 1997; finalist for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award); The Picture of Nobody (Good Reads/HarperCollins, 2010); and the short story collections The Book of Ifs and Buts (Vintag, 2002), The Writer and His Wife (Peepal Tree Press, 1996), and The Interloper (Goose Lane Editions, 1995; nominated for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, for Best First Book).

DAVID W. McFADDEN began writing poetry, publishing in famous literary magazines, and corresponding with Jack Kerouac while still in high school in Hamilton. Since the '60s, he was published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and travel writing. His most recent books are Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems (Insomniac Press, 2007; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize); Be Calm, Honey (Mansfield Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry); and Why Are You So Long and Sweet? Collected Long Poems (Insomniac Press, 2010). His other books include An Innocent in Cuba, An Innocent in Ireland, The Great Lakes Suite, Canadian Sunset, A Knight in Dried Plums, Gypsy Guitar, and The Great Canadian Sonnet. David lives in Toronto and was recently the subject of the festschrift A Trip Around McFadden, edited by Stuart Ross and Jim Smith on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

CAROLYN SMART was born in England and moved with her family to Ottawa, where she lived in Elizabeth Smart's house in the Gatineau hills though they never met and are not related. She is the founder of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and since 1989, she has taught Creative Writing at Queen's University. Her books are the acclaimed Hooked: Seven Poems (Brick, 2009); At the End of the Day: A Memoir (Penumbra, 2001), a section of which won the CBC Literary Contest in 1992; The Way to Come Home (Brick, 1992); Stoning the Moon (Oberon, 1986); Power Sources (Fiddlehead, 1982); and Swimmers in Oblivion (York, 1981). She has also collected the works of Queen's Creative Writing students in four volumes of the Lake Effect anthologies.

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

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