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Now We Are Six

With Sarah Mian, Alex Pugsley, Lisa Alward, Amanda Peters, Deepa Rajagopalan, Cory Lavender, and Andrea Currie

Celebrate the sixth annual AfterWords Literary Festival!
Wednesday, November 6
7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)
Cafe Lara (2347 Agricola St, Halifax)

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Help us celebrate the sixth annual AfterWords Literary Festival! Our always-jam-packed Wednesday night party, hosted by Sarah Mian, features readings by Alex Pugsley, Lisa Alward, Amanda Peters, Deepa Rajagopalan, Cory Lavender, and Andrea Currie. This licensed event will fill up fast so snag your ticket now!

Presented by Rosie Porter Realtor

Speakers

  • Sarah Mian's debut novel, When the Saints, won the Jim Connors Book Award, the Margaret & John Savage First Book Award, and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. She wrote the screen adaptation and is now working on her second novel, The World in Awful Sleep.

  • As a screenwriter and story editor, Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Ennis Esmer, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd, and Michael Cera, and for such series as Hudson & Rex, The Eleventh Hour, Life with Derek, Baxter, Heartland, G-Spot, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, and The Gavin Crawford Show. His feature film Dirty Singles won for him the Irving Avrich Emerging Filmmaker Award at TIFF. Following the publication of his debut novel, Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s 2020 Writers to Watch. His first story collection, Shimmer, was nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His new novel, The Education of Aubrey McKee, has just been longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards.

  • Lisa Alward's Cocktail won the 2023 Danuta Gleed Award, for the best first collection of short stories by a Canadian in English, as well as the New Brunswick 2024 Mrs. Dunster's Fiction Prize, and was long-listed for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. She was born and grew up in Halifax and worked in literary publishing in Toronto before moving with her family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, where at 50 she began writing stories.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Andrea Currie’s debut book Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves is a weaving of memoir, essay and poetry that illustrates the depth and breadth of the impact of the Sixties Scoop, the love between a brother and a sister, the challenges of living with profound cultural loss, and the healing that is sometimes possible. The pieces range from bluntly honest critique of the colonial practices that permeate child welfare agencies to tender accounts of two children’s vulnerability in childhoods defined by that system. In this timely work of narrative non-fiction, Currie asks as many questions as she answers.

  • Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in Mi’kma’ki. His work has appeared in journals such as Grain, Prairie Fire, Riddle Fence, and The Fiddlehead, and in Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Press, 2020). His full-length collection of poems, Come One Thing Another, is out in 2024 with Gaspereau Press.