Junction Reads with Becky Blake

Junction Reads is an online reading series that offers one on one conversations and readings with authors of great prose.

Junction Reads

Reading and conversation with Becky Blake

We are thrilled to have<a href="https://www.beckyblake.ca/novel" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Becky Blake </a>join us at Junction Reads, with her debut novel Proof I Was Here."Days after she arrives in Barcelona, Niki’s world is turned upside down when her fiancé calls off their engagement. Unwilling to return to Toronto and face a looming assault charge, she turns to life on the streets. Living among pickpockets, squatters and graffiti artists in a city she barely knows, she is challenged to reassess her ideas about family, luck and art. With the help of a passionate Catalan separatist who dreams of building a new country from the ground up, Niki realizes that starting her life over from scratch could be an opportunity – if she can just find a way to clear her name." <a href="https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/proof-i-was-here" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Published by Buckrider Books (Wolsak &amp; Wynn).</a>A two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013), Becky Blake’s stories and essays have appeared in publications across Canada. Becky teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education, and holds an MFA from the University of Guelph. She is currently working on a second novel and a memoir-in-essays. This is a PWYC event with all proceeds going to the author. Grab a copy of the book from your local bookstore or directly from Wolsak &amp; Wynn.

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