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52 IRENE N. WATTS BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 14 Irene N. Watts is a writer and playwright who has worked throughout Canada and Europe. Her previous book, A Telling Time, was awarded a White Raven in Bologna 2006, by the Internationale Jugend Bibliothek, Munich. Irene’s books have been translated into Italian, French and Dutch and have been awarded numerous honours, including the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, BC’s Chocolate Lily Award, and UNESCO’s Playwriting Award for Young Adults. Her new book is No Pets Allowed. RC WESLOWSKI BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 10, 27 RC Weslowski is a clown mouth full of x-ray visions attempting to get at the heart of things. RC is the 2009 Vancouver Poetry Slam-Grand Slam Champion and he was also the Poet of Honour at the 2008 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and 2007 runner up at the World Cup of Poetry in Bobigny, France, 2006. He has toured the UK, Europe, Canada and the US with performances at many different festivals. ROBERT J. WIERSEMA BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 20, 30 Robert J. Wiersema channeled his childhood propensity for lying (even though he always got caught) into the craft of fi ction, which he studied at the University of Victoria. He worked for many years as a bookseller in Victoria and wrote book reviews for Quill & Quire, The Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, before writing his fi rst novel, Before I Wake. His new novel is Bedtime Story. © DON DENTON KATHLEEN WINTER QUÉBEC, EVENTS 20, 62 Kathleen Winter has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. Her fi rst collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the 2006 Metcalfe-Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal. Annabel is her fi rst novel.
MICHAEL WINTER ONTARIO, EVENTS 35, 52, 67 Michael Winter is the author of The Architects Are Here, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and The Big Why, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His fi rst novel, This All Happened, won the Winterset Award. He is also the recipient of The Writers’ Trust Notable Author Award. Winter’s new novel is The Death of Donna Whalen. He divides his time between Toronto and St. John’s. © CURTIS LANTINGA © STEVE PAYNE RACHEL WYATT BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 50, 57 Rachel Wyatt is an award-winning author of novels, short fi ction, stage and radio plays and non-fi ction works. Her six novels include The Rosedale Hoax, Foreign Bodies, and Time’s Reach. A half-dozen professional productions have been mounted of her full-length stage plays, including Crackpot and For Love or Money. She has won the CBC Literary Competition Drama Award and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002 and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2003. Her new novel is Letters to Omar. ALISSA YORK ONTARIO, SPECIAL EVENT Alissa York’s highly acclaimed fi rst novel, Mercy, was published in 2003. Effi gy was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She won the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher for her short story collection, Any Given Power. Her stories have also won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award, and in 2001 she won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. She has lived all over Canada, and now makes her home in Toronto. Her new novel is Fauna. TERENCE YOUNG BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 38, 64 Terence Young is the author of four previous books, including The Island in Winter (nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry), Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake’s (Winner of the City of Victoria Butler Best Book Award), and Moving Day. He helped co-found The Claremont Review, a journal for young writers, and lives with poet and fi ction writer Patricia Young in Victoria. His new collection of stories is The End of the Ice Age. Home to the best authors from Canada and around the world. 53
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