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Evening Social

Readings by Sonja Boon, Kim Echlin, and Amanda Peters

Saturday, April 25
7pm to 9pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Cafe Lara, 3121 Kempt Road * please note location!
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We’re partnering with the Writing and Publishing program at the University of King’s College to present an evening of readings by Sonja Boon, Kim Echlin, and Amanda Peters, as part of the Creative Writing and Storytelling Conference hosted by the Writing and Publishing MFA programs in creative nonfiction and fiction at the University of King’s College.

Speakers

  • Sonja Boon (she/her) is an award-winning writer, researcher, flutist, teacher, and stitcher of stories. The author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, including the memoir What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019), she is a mentor in the MFA (creative nonfiction) program at the University of King’s College, an adjunct professor of gender studies at Memorial University, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her work appears in ROOM, pinhole poetry, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review, and Geist, among others, and is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. For six years, Sonja was principal flutist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

  • Kim Echlin is a Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has lived and travelled around the world. The Disappeared was translated into 20 languages, won the Barnes and Noble prize and was short-listed for The Giller. Speak, Silence about woman and justice in the International Criminal Court won the City of Toronto Book award. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International. Author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN.

  • Amanda Peters is a Mi’kmaq/ Settler writer from the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her debut novel The Berry Pickers won the Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize, the Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime First Novel, the Dartmouth Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction. Her collection of short fiction, Waiting for the Long Night Moon was released in August 2024. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Institute for American Indian Arts in New Mexico. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia University.