Join us for a evening with Carrie Snyder\, fiction writer and editor as she discusses her new book Francie's Got a Gun . Fellow authors Tasneem Jamal and Emily Urquhart will be interviewing Car rie Snyder for the evening.
\nAbout Carrie Snyder:< /p>\n
Carrie Snyder is an award- winning Canadian writer who has published three books of literary fiction and two books for children. Her most recent\, bestselling novel\, Girl Runner< /em>\, was a finalist for the Writers&rsquo\; Trust Prize and publishe d in twelve countries. Her novel-in-stories\, The Juliet Stories\, was a final ist for the 2012 Governor General&rsquo\;s Literary Award for Fiction. She is a consulting editor for The New Quarterly magazine and publishes an aw ard-winning literary blog\, Obscure&hellip\;
\nAbout the Boo k:
\nFrancie's Got a Gun
In Francie&rsquo\;s Got a Gun\,
award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable ch
aracters who are both well-intentioned and flawed. At their centre is Fran
cie\, a vulnerable\, imaginative girl with surprising attachments to each
of them. Here is a propulsive\, polyphonic\, heart-expanding novel&mdash\;
equal parts sorrow and humour\, fear and love\, anger and kindness&mdash\;
about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit commun
ity.
About the Interviewers:
\nTasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara\, Uganda\ , and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the nove l Where the Air Is Sweet (HarperCollins 2014)\, she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel (working t itle: &ldquo\;The Uncertainty Principle&rdquo\;). When not writing\, Tasne em serves as Communications Officer at Project Ploughshares\, a Waterloo-b ased peace research institute. She lives in Kitchener.
\nEmily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorat e in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her award-winning longform nonfiction has appeared in Guernica\, Longreads and The Walrus am ong other publications. Her memoir The Age of Creativity: Art\, Memory\, m y Father and Me\, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC\, NOW Magazine a nd Quill &\; Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly an d lives in Kitchener\, Ontario. Her essay collection\, Ordinary Wonder Tal es\, will be published in fall 2022.
\nProgrammer: \; Nancy
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