McClelland and Stewart's Fiction Night
A gathering in celebration of our community, our authors, and our rich, award-winning fiction list.
Date and time
Location
The Henry
142 George Street Toronto, ON M5A 2M7 CanadaAbout this event
- 2 hours
We are thrilled to be inviting you to the 2nd annual McClelland & Stewart Fiction Night. For more than 100 years, McClelland & Stewart has helped to shape and champion Canada’s cultural conversations. In partnership with Another Story Books, we are extremely proud to celebrate our award-winning fiction program with this series that gathers readers, writers, media, festival, and agency partners in celebration of our community, our authors, and our dynamic and internationally acclaimed fiction list.
Join us on June 5th for an engaging evening of conversation with five captivating authors. Frankie Barnet will introduce an Instagram-poet living in a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own. Jonathan Escoffery will follow a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami as they discover that the American Dream may just be an American Myth. Ainslie Hogarth will take us to a cult-like yoga studio to observe how we value female labour—and don’t. Conor Kerr will challenge what “Land Back” might really look like as two cousins attempt to bring the Buffalo back to what we now call Edmonton. And Tommy Orange will trace the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to present-day Oakland.
Moderated by Ismaila Alfa, host of CBC's Fresh Air, we hope you will join us in this celebration of storytelling, our author community, and page-turning literary work that confronts some of the most urgent questions of our times.
Tickets are general admission and do not guarantee seating. We do expect the event to reach capacity so please register now!
FRANKIE BARNET is the author of An Indoor Kind of Girl and Kim: A Novel Idea. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montreal.
JONATHAN ESCOFFERY is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Passages North, Zyzzyva, and Electric Literature, and has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota, is a PhD fellow in the University of Southern California's PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program, and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.
AINSLIE HOGARTH is the author of Motherthing, The Lonely and The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated). She lives in Canada with her husband, kids, and little dog.
CONOR KERR is a Métis/Ukrainian writer living in Edmonton. A member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, he is descended from the Lac Ste. Anne Metis and the Papaschase Cree Nation. His Ukrainian family are settlers in Treaty 4 and 6 territories in Saskatchewan. He grew up in Saskatoon, Edmonton, and other prairie towns and cities. In 2022 he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. He is the author of the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers and Old Gods, as well as the novel Avenue of Champions, which was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize and won the 2022 ReLIT award. Conor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta where he teaches creative writing.
TOMMY ORANGE is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland, California.