This month we boast a stunning line up of fiction writers, and perhaps a little more. Sadly, this will be the final Common Readings to take place at our most hospitable and beloved Belljar Cafe (which will be closing down in March), so everyone please come out and show the Belljar how much we love them by celebrating our most excellent run at this venue. Hopefully, we will also be announcing a new venue for future readings. In the meantime, we couldn't ask for a more welcome group of readers with which to celebrate our final night at the Belljar!
AMY JONES
KEVIN HARDCASTLE
CHERIE DIMALINE
Come for the words and the wine!
AMY JONES is the author of the short fiction collection What Boys Like (Bibiloasis, 2009), and the novel We’re All in This Together (M&S 2016). Her short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines, and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Toronto.
KEVIN HARDCASTLE is a fiction writer from Simcoe County, Ontario. He studied writing at the University of Toronto and Cardiff University. He was a finalist for the 2012 Journey Prize, and his stories have been published widely in Canada and anthologized internationally. Hardcastle’s debut short story collection, Debris, won the Trillium Book Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His debut novel, In the Cage, was recently published by Biblioasis.
CHERIE DIMALINE is a writer and editor from the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario who has published 4 books. Her latest book, The Marrow Thieves, won the 2017 Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, is a finalist for the White Pine Award, and is a selection for CBC’s 2018 Canada Reads. The Marrow Thieves was also named a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC, and is a national bestseller. Cherie currently lives in Toronto, Ontario where she coordinates the annual Indigenous Writers’ Gathering and is at work on her next novel.