Vine Awards Panel 1: WWII Fiction & Stories of Survival

Koffler Arts

2021 Vine Awards shortlisted writers Michelle Barker, Gordon Korman, and Carol Windley in conversation with juror Naomi K. Lewis

The Koffler is delighted to present three virtual panels featuring shortlisted Vine Awards authors on November 16, 17 and 18, 2021. The first panel features evening of enlightening conversation, as three authors reflect on writing WWII fiction, stories of survival, and the coming-of-age genre.MICHELLE BARKER is an author and editor who lives in Vancouver, B.C. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in literary reviews around the world. Her novel, The House of One Thousand Eyes, has won numerous awards, including the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Her newest novel My Long List of Impossible Things was named a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection. Michelle holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and works as a senior editor at the Darling Axe.Michelle Barker, My Long List of Impossible Things (Annick Press) is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards Young Adult/Children’s Literature category.GORDON KORMAN is the #1 bestselling author of three books in The 39 Clues series as well as eight books in his Swindle series: Swindle, Zoobreak, Framed, Showoff, Hideout, Jackpot, Unleashed, and Jingle. His other books include This Can&#x27;t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! (published when he was 14); The Toilet Paper Tigers; Radio Fifth Grade; Slacker; Restart; Whatshisface; Level 13; the trilogies Island, Everest, Dive, Kidnapped, and Titanic; and the series The Hypnotists and On the Run. Gordon grew up in Thornhill, Ontario and he lives in New York with his family. Gordon Korman, War Stories (Scholastic Canada) is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards Young Adult/Children’s Literature category.CAROL WINDLEY is the author of the novel Breathing Under Water and two story collections: the Scotiabank Giller Prize–finalist Home Schooling and Visible Light, which won the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Prize and was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. She lives with her husband on Vancouver Island.Carol Windley, Midnight Train to Prague is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards Fiction category.NAOMI K. LEWIS is a fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, and creative writing teacher in Calgary. She wrote the novel Cricket in a Fist (2008) and the story collection I Know Who You Remind Of (2012), and co-edited, with Rona Altrows, the anthology Shy (2013). Her journalism has been shortlisted for provincial and national magazine awards, and her 2019 memoir, Tiny Lights for Travellers, won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature for Nonfiction, Alberta&#x27;s Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Pinsky Givon Prize for Nonfiction, a Western Canada Jewish Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General&#x27;s Award for Nonfiction and the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Award. The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature is a national awards program that honours both the best Canadian Jewish writers and non-Jewish Canadian authors who deal with Jewish subjects in Fiction, History, Non-Fiction and Young Adult/Children’s Literature, each with a prize of $10,000. Winners will be announced on November 23, 2021 at an online Awards Ceremony. In addition to the ceremony, the Koffler is presenting three virtual panels featuring shortlisted Vine Awards authors on November 16, 17 and 18, 2021. All events are free.Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts.The Koffler Centre of the Arts is dedicated to accessibility. CART live captioning will be provided at this event, and a transcript and video/audio recording will be available afterwards on the Koffler website. This Zoom event is in webinar format, meaning all event attendees will be off camera. We will do our best to accommodate additional access needs; if you have questions or concerns, please contact our access point person, Mary, at manderson@kofflerarts.org

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