Dick Lit's Trivia Night #1
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How much do you know about impossible love, Italy, murder and Anne Hathaway? Prove you're the smartest person in the library. Win big-league bragging rights and tasty beverages.
Join the Calgary Public Library and Wordfest for the launch of Calgary's most Guilt-Free Trivia Competition. Hosted by Richard Kemick and featuring Glenn Dixon, bestselling author of Juliet's Answer.
Juliet’s Answer is one man’s search for love and the elusive cure for heartbreak. Glenn Dixon travels to Verona, Italy, to become a scribe of Juliet, Shakespeare’s fictional character. Once there, he volunteers to answer the thousands of letters that arrive addressed to Juliet, letters sent from lovelorn people all over the world who long to understand the mysteries of the human heart.
About Richard Kemick, host of the Dick Lit's Trivia Night series.
Richard Kelly Kemick’s poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines and journals across Canada and the United States, most recently in The Walrus, Maisonneuve, and The Fiddlehead. His debut collection of poetry, Caribou Run, was published March 2016 by Goose Lane Editions and selected by CBC as one of the season’s Must Read Collections.
About Glenn Dixon
An author, musician, and documentary film maker, Glenn Dixon has traveled through more than seventy-five countries and written for National Geographic, the New York Post, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, and Psychology Today. He holds an M.A. in socio-linguistics and his second book, Tripping the World Fantastic, was shortlisted for the W.O. Mitchell award. A high-school English teacher for twenty years, he has left that to become a full-time writer. Visit him at GlennDixon.ca or follow him on Twitter @Glenn_Dixon.