Speakeasy

Date: March 29, 2012
Location: Magpie Tavern

Spring has sprung for Speakeasy! Join us for another fabulous night of readings. SHANE NEILSON is a writer from New Brunswick. CLAIRE CALDWELL is a poet in her second year of the Guelph MFA program. Her work has appeared in Prism International, Carousel, and the Scrivener Creative Review. MATT LENNOX is the author of one collection of short stories (Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Oberon Press, 2009) and one novel (The Carpenter, HarperCollins Canada, 2012). His nonfiction has appeared in Toronto Life and The National Post. He is a recent graduate of The University of Guelph’s MFA in creative writing, and continues to serve and train as an officer in the Canadian Forces Army Reserves. Matt enjoys travel, carpentry, and amateur boxing. He lives in Toronto, and is working on his next novel. MICHAEL WINTER is the author of two short story collections and four novels. His work has won the Winterset Award and a Writer’s Trust Notable Author Award. A short story took first place in the annual CBC literary competition. His most recent novel, The Death of Donna Whalen, is a work of documentary fiction chronicling a true crime story set in St. John’s. Michael is currently the Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto.