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Saturday Afternoon at The Carleton

With Madhur Anand, David Huebert, Danica Roache, and Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Saturday, November 8
1:00PM – 2:30PM
The Carleton (1685 Argyle Street, Halifax)
$10.00

Description

An afternoon of readings at The Carleton, with bar service and light snacks, featuring Madhur Anand (To Place a Rabbit), David Huebert (Oil People), Danica Roache (Five Seasons of Charlie Francis), and Elamin Abdelmahmoud (Son of Elsewhere) read from their recent work.

Speakers

  • Madhur Anand's debut book of creative non-fiction This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was also a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. To Place a Rabbit is her first novel. Anand is a professor and the director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

  • David Huebert is the author of Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley, and the debut novel Oil People. His writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize and the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and has been a finalist for the Journey Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His novel, Oil People, was published in August 2024 and has been called “lyrical,” “elegant,” and “wildly hallucinatory.” Oil People was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. David teaches in the fiction MFA program at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), where he lives with his partner and two children.

  • A member of Glooscap First Nation, Danica Roache is a mixed-ancestry writer living in Punamu'kwati'jk (Dartmouth) with her partner, four kids, two cats, and a dog. When not writing or chasing after her brood, she can be found reading, making elaborate baked goods, and listening to the same three songs on repeat. Her work has appeared in The Dal Review and been long listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. Five Seasons of Charlie Francis is her first novel.

  • Elamin Abdelmahmoud is an award-winning culture writer and host of CBC’s Commotion. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Rolling Stone, and others. He is the author of Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces, a number one national bestseller, a Globe 100 book, and a New York Times notable book.