Ben McNally Books
Join us for an evening of readings and revelry featuring
Hannah Brown, author of Look After Her
Carole Giangrande, author of The Tender Birds
Elizabeth Greene, author of The Dowager Empress: Poems of Adele Wiseman
Fereshteh Molavi, author of Thirty Shadow Birds
Anne Sorbie, author of Fall Backwards into Mirrors
Special guest jazz musician Patrick Hewan. Refreshments. Free. www.inanna.ca
Hannah Brown is a prize-winning screenwriter who happily taught film and English at the college and collegiate levels. A return to writing full-time resulted in poems, short stories, blogs, and essays appearing in many North American literary magazines, and a short story "The Happiness" was nominated for the 2016 Journey prize. She lives near the lake in the Beaches neighborhood of Toronto. Look After Her is Hannah's debut novel.
Carole Giangrande is the award-winning author of ten books, including the novella A Gardener on the Moon (winner of the 2010 Ken Klonsky Award) and the novel All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2018 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction). The Tender Birds is her fourth novel. She’s worked as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio, and her fiction, poetry, articles and reviews have appeared in literary journals and in Canada’s major newspapers. In her spare time, she loves birding with her partner Brian, photographing birds and trying to improve her French.
Elizabeth Greene has published a novel, A Season Among Psychics (2018), and three books of poetry, The Iron Shoes (2007), Moving (2010) and Understories (2014). Her poems, short fiction, and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada, most recently in Where the Nights Are Twice As Long, ed. David Eso and Jeanette Lynes, and The Society for St. Peter’s Anthology (St. Peter’s College, Muenster, Saskatchewan). She has also edited/co-edited five books, including We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman which won the Betty and Morris Aaron Prize (Jewish Book Awards) for Best Scholarship on a Canadian Subject in 1998. She lives in Kingston with her son and two cats.
Born in Tehran a month after the coup in 1953, Fereshteh Molavi lived and worked there as a writer, editor, award-winning translator, and research librarian until 1998 when she immigrated to Toronto. While in Iran, unable to publish some of her works due to censorship and war, she compiled a comprehensive bibliography of short stories in Persian and also translated numerous works by internationally-known writers. After ceasefire in 1988, she published her first novel, Khaneh-ye abr-o-bad (The House of Cloud and the Wind); her first collection of short stories, Pari-ye Aftabi (The Sun Fairy); and two other works of fiction. In Canada, she taught Persian language and literature at University of Toronto and York University, and essay writing at Seneca College. As a member of PEN Canada, she was a fellow at Massey College and a lecturer-in-residence at George Brown College. Molavi has had readings in Sweden, France, U.S., and Canada. Her work has appeared in many North American anthologies, among them, Speaking in Tonguesand TOK. Since 2009, she has published two more novels, two collections of short fiction, and one collection of essays in Persian, which though censored in Iran, have been released in Europe.
Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives in Calgary. Her fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews have been published by The University of Alberta Press, Frontenac House, House of Blue Skies, and Thistledown Press; in magazines and journals such as Alberta Views, Geist, and Other Voices; and online with Brick Books, CBC Canada Writes, Geist, and Wax Poetry and Art. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Red Deer College and Mount Royal University and is a past editor of dANDelion Magazine. Falling Backwards Into Mirrors is her third book.
Accessibility: Ben McNally Book is an accessible venue however, there is no e-door to the washroom and the handle bar next to the toilet is diagonal instead of L-shaped.
The nearest accessible TTC station is Queen Station.
Parking is available at the Bay Adelaide Centre, accessible from Richmond or Adelaide. A short walk from Queen Station and the Queen streetcar line.