Author talks
Mississauga Library’s Author Talk series features a wide range of talented writers. Hear authors read from their books, ask questions, learn about the writing process, and find out more about their craft of telling captivating stories. For ages 13 and over.
Kai Thomas
Wed, Jan 31, 7-8 pm
Kai Thomas is a graduate of University of Guelph’s Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts Program. Apart from writing, he works as a carpenter and a land steward. He is Afro-Canadian, born and raised in Ottawa, descended from Trinidad and the British Isles.
In the Upper Country is his first novel and is shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. In the Upper Country was a national bestseller.
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Suzette Mayr
Wed, Feb 28, 7-8 pm
Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Award. It also featured as Publishers Weekly Top 20 Literary Fiction Books of 2022, The Globe 100: The Best Books of 2022, CBC Books The Best Canadian Fiction of 2022 and Oprah Daily Books to Read by the Fireside.
Mayr’s other novels have won the ReLit Award and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, and been nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean Region, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. She is a former President of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.
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Lisa Brideau
Wed, March 27, 7-8 pm
Lisa Brideau was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She has a B.Eng in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, M.Sc in Urban Planning from the University of British Columbia, and currently works as a sustainability specialist for the city of Vancouver, focused on climate policy and climate justice.
Lisa’s debut novel Adrift is an edge-of-your-seat suspense story that conveys a powerful message about the horrifying realities of climate change.
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