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Fantastic Ideas

With Elizabeth Renzetti, Charlene Carr, Anne Fleming, Catherine Leroux, and Heather O’Neill

Saturday, November 9
7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)
Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

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Description

Elizabeth Renzetti (Bury the Lead), Charlene Carr (We Rip the World Apart), and Anne Fleming (Curiosities) will open the evening with readings from their new work. Then it’s novelists Heather O’Neill and Catherine Leroux in conversation about their respective dark fairy tales The Capital of Dreams and The Future. We’ll equip them with a bowl of random questions to use in the unlikely event of a lull in the conversation. 

Accessibility Notes:

ASL, free livestream

Speakers

  • Elizabeth Renzetti is an award-winning author and journalist. Her most recent book is What She Said: Conversations About Equality. She is also, with Kate Hilton, the author of the Quill & Packet mystery series.

  • Charlene Carr studied literature at university, attaining both a BA and MA in English, including a study program at Oxford. She has independently published nine novels and her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, sold to HarperCollins Canada, and three international publishers. It was shortlisted for both the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award and has been optioned for adaptation to the screen. Charlene received grants from Arts Nova Scotia and Canada Council for the Arts to write and revise her most recent novel, We Rip The World Apart, and is working on her next novel. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband and young daughters.

  • Catherine Leroux is Québec novelist, translator and editor born in 1979. Her debut novel La marche en forêt was published in 2011. Two years later, Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version, The Party Wall, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future (L’avenir in French), won the 2024 edition of Canada Reads. Her latest novel, Peuple de verre, is a speculative fiction about the housing crisis. As a translator, Catherine has brought the works of Sean Michaels, Andrew Kaufman and (soon) Sarah Bernstein into French, and won the 2019 Governor general award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. She lives in Montreal with her two children.

  • Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent novel, When We Lost Our Heads, was a #1 national bestseller and a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Her previous works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O’Neill has also won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives there today.

  • Anne Fleming writes short stories, novels, poems, essays and books for children. Anne’s writing has won National Magazine awards and has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Italy’s Premio Strega children’s prize. The Goat, named one of the ten best children’s books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Public Library, was also a White Ravens winner and Junior Library Guild selection. Anne teaches Creative Writing at UBC’s Okanagan Campus.