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It Pains Me to Say: Panel Discussion

With Gabrielle Drolet, Claire Cameron, and Stephanie Domet

Friday, November 7
2:00PM – 3:00PM (Doors open at 1:30PM)
The Carleton (1685 Argyle Street, Halifax)
$0.00

Description

Life is pain, according to philosophers from the Buddha to Schoepenhauer to Nietzche to The Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. For many writers, pain is both a fact of life, and a subject of art. Gabrielle Drolet (Look Ma, No Hands) and Claire Cameron (How to Survive a Bear Attack) join festival co-founder Stephanie Domet to talk about pain, and how it works in, alongside, and against art.

Speakers

  • Gabrielle Drolet is a cartoonist and writer based in Montreal. Her written work about disability and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Walrus, Teen Vogue, and more. She regularly contributes cartoons to the New Yorker and the Globe and Mail.

  • Claire Cameron is the author of the national bestseller, How to Survive a Bear Attack. Her most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The Bear, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was a #1 national bestseller. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and she is a monthly contributor to The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto and has spent summers in Nova Scotia for most of her life.

  • Stephanie Domet is the author of two novels, Homing and Fallsy Downsies, both published by Invisible. She also co-wrote a non-fiction book for middle grade readers called Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women, published by Nimbus. She is the co-founder and co-executive director of the AfterWords Literary Festival, and the managing editor of The Dalhousie Review. She is no doubt wearing something she sewed herself.