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Reading: Canadian Authors Series feat. Deborah Willis and Margaret Christakos

  • Bleeding Heart Art Space 9140 118 Avenue Northwest Edmonton, AB, T5B 0V1 Canada (map)

"Join MacEwan University's Writer in Residence Deborah Willis and the University of Alberta's Writer in Residence Margaret Christakos for a joint reading off-campus at the Bleeding Heart Art Space on Alberta Avenue.

Willis is the author of two collections of short fiction, including Giller Prize long-listed The Dark and Other Love Stories (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), one of the Globe & Mail's Top 100 Books of 2017. Christakos is the author of nine collections of poetry, as well as Space Between Her Lips: Selected Poems (Wilfred Laurier UP,  2017) and a recent work of literary memoir, Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss, & Selfies (BookThug, 2016).

Hear from these two exciting and accomplished authors as they read from their work at this free and open to the public evening event.