Small Gods Storyteller Series, vol. 11

Small Gods Storyteller Series, vol. 11

An evening of literary readings, featuring poets Matthew Walsh, A-E Best, Andrea Scott and novelist Michael Christie!

A-E Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston. Her work can be found in the Capilano Review, New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, Mslexia, and Chatelaine. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Bad Weather Mammals, is now available. She’s currently the Editorial Coordinator for Arc Poetry Magazine and a Marketing Assistant for Brick Books.

Matthew Walsh, MW, is a poet from the Maritimes whose first book, These are not the potatoes of my youth, was shortlisted for the Trillium poetry award and the Gerald Lampert award. Their second book, Terrarium, released this year with Icehouse/Goose Lane. You can find new poems from them in Bad Dog Magazine’s September 2024 issue.

Andrea Scott is a mother, writer and high school teacher living in Victoria, B.C., the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, FreeFall, and Arc Poetry Magazine, among others. She won the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest and was a finalist for the FBCW 2022 Literary Contest and the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. Her first chapbook, In the Warm Shallows of What Remains, was the winner of the 2024 Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest. Andrea has just completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, and is working on a YA novel in verse.

Michael Christie is the author of the novel If I Fall, If I Die, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, and was on numerous best-of 2015 lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar's Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Globe & Mail. Greenwood, his most recent novel, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

A limited number and selection of books by the authors may be for sale after the event. We recommend you bring cash if you intend to purchase books but some authors may also use Interac e-transfer. Please feel free to bring any books you may own by any of the authors should you like to have them sign them after the readings!

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