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Long Story Short

With Elliott Gish, Fawn Parker, Deepa Rajagopalan, Alexander MacLeod, and Caroline Adderson

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

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Description

A celebration of stories long and short—Elliott Gish and Fawn Parker read from their new novels, and Deepa Rajagoplan reads from her debut collection of stories. Then Caroline Adderson joins Alexander MacLeod in conversation about A Way to Be Happy, Caroline’s latest collection of stories. 

Accessibility Notes:

ASL, free livestream

Speakers

  • Elliott Gish is a writer and librarian from Nova Scotia. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Vastarien, Dark Matter Magazine, and many others. Her debut novel, Grey Dog, was published by ECW Press this year. Elliott lives in Halifax with her partner and a small black cat named Mr. Raymond Parks.

  • Fawn Parker is a writer from Toronto, currently based in Fredericton where she is a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of six books including her latest novel, Hi, It's Me (M&S). Fawn is the current Poet Laureate of Fredericton.

  • Deepa Rajagopalan is the author of the short story collection, Peacocks of Instagram, shortlisted for the 2024 Giller prize. She won the 2021 PEN Canada New Voices Award for the title story of the collection. Her writing has appeared in literary magazines such as The New Quarterly, Room Magazine, The Malahat Review, and the anthologies like the Bristol Short Story Prize 2023. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.

  • Alexander MacLeod's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and The O Henry Prize Stories. His first book, Light Lifting, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2021, Lagomorph, his collaboration with Andrew Steeves, won the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia’s Masterworks Arts Award. Animal Person, released in April 2022, is his newest work.

  • Caroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, The Sky Is Falling, Ellen in Pieces, A Russian Sister), three collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings, Pleased to Meet You, A Way to Be Happy) as well as many books for young readers. Her work has received numerous award nominations including the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. In 2017, she was a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts, Culture and Design nominee. Her awards include three BC Book Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement, and a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction.