Vine Awards Panel 3: Memoir & Motherhood

Koffler Arts

2021 Vine Awards shortlisted writers Sharon Kirsch, Rachel Matlow, Myriam Steinberg &amp; illustrator Christache with Zelda Abramson

The Koffler is delighted to present three virtual panels featuring shortlisted Vine Awards authors on November 16, 17 and 18, 2021. The third panel features themes surrounding memoir, motherhood, and lived experience will be at the forefront of this engaging conversation. SHARON KIRSCH is the author of What Species of Creatures (2008), her debut book of literary non-fiction inspired by vivid traditions of animal writing—the fable, children’s stories, and classifications by naturalists. A writer and an editor, she has published fiction, narrative non‐fiction, and journalism, most recently in subTerrain and Room magazines. Sharon is originally from Montreal and has lived in the US and the UK, the latter as a Commonwealth Scholar for postgraduate study in Middle English literature. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program, and is currently based in Toronto.  Sharon Kirsch, The Smallest Objective (New Star Books) is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards History category.RACHEL MATLOW (they/them) was a long-time producer on the arts and culture program Q on CBC Radio, where they also worked on Spark and The Sunday Edition. Their audio documentary Dead Mom Talking won a 2016 Third Coast award and a 2017 Gabriel award. Rachel has written for The Globe and Mail, National Post, and The Believer. They play chess every weekend and is forever planning their next long-distance hike.Rachel Matlow, Dead Mom Walking (Penguin Random House Canada) is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards Non-Fiction category.MYRIAM STEINBERG is currently a writer. In her past life, she was a visual artist, and event organizer. For 11 years, she was the brains and brawn of the In the House Festival, which brought live performances of all kinds into people’s living rooms and backyards throughout her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, and was nominated for the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for this work. Her first book, Catalogue Baby, chronicles her years spent trying to conceive a child as a single woman in her forties.CHRISTACHE is a freelance illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada where he lives with his partner, Jill and their 2 cats, Wally and Morris. He also performs as an actor, improv comedian, clown and puppeteer. He works often with youth, regularly teaching kids cartoon classes as well as drama and improvisation classes. Catalogue Baby is his first graphic novel.Myriam Steinberg, illustrations by Christache, Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility (Page Two Books) is shortlisted in the 2021 Vine Awards Non-Fiction category.ZELDA ABRAMSON is Professor Emerita, Sociology Department, Acadia University. As a public sociologist, she strives to combine academic research with social activism. The daughter of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal after the War, Zelda grew up immersed in the spoken and unspoken challenges survivors faced as they immigrated and assimilated into Canadian society. Her commitment to public sociology, and her particular interest in reconstructing overlooked stories and voices, led her to undertake this research on the lives of Jewish immigrants to Montreal after WWII. The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust, co-authored with John Lynch, was shortlisted for the History prize at the 2020 Vine Awards.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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