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Saturday Afternoon at The Carleton

With Carol Bruneau, Anne Fleming, Peter Counter, and Tanya Talaga

Saturday, November 9
1:00PM – 2:30PM (Doors Open at 12:30PM)
The Carleton (1685 Argyle St, Halifax)

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Join us for an afternoon of readings at The Carleton featuring novelists Carol Bruneau and Anne Fleming as well as non-fiction authors Tanya Talaga and Peter Counter.

Speakers

  • Carol Bruneau is the author of eleven books: four short fiction collections, including Threshold (Nimbus Publishing/Vagrant Press, 2024), six novels and one nonfiction book, No Ordinary Magic: the Art of Laurie Swim (Goose Lane Editions, 2023), nominated for this year’s APMA Best Atlantic Published Book. Her novels include Brighten the Corner Where You Are, inspired by the life of Maud Lewis (Nimbus/Vagrant, 2020), nominated for the IMPAQ Dublin Literary Award, and A Circle on the Surface (Nimbus/Vagrant, 2018), winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Her 2017 story collection, A Bird on Every Tree, was a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Her first novel, Purple for Sky, won both these awards in 2001. Other novels include These Good Hands (Cormorant Books, 2015) which explores the life and art of French sculptor Camille Claudel, and Glass Voices (Cormorant, 2007), a Globe and Mail Best Book. Bruneau lives and works in Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia/Mi’kmaki.

  • 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.

  • Tanya Talaga is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.

  • Peter Counter writes about television, video games, film, music, mental illness, horror, technology, and the occult. He is the author of two essay collections that blend criticism and memoir: How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory (2023, House of Anansi) and Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays (2020, Invisible Publishing). His nonfiction has also appeared in The Walrus, All Lit Up, Motherboard, Art of the Title, Electric Literature, Open Book, and the anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (2019, Epiphany Publishing). He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with his spouse and two cats.