Open Text Reading Series:
Hannah Calder and Gillian Wigmore
Hannah Calder
Gillian Wigmore
Hannah Calder and Gillian Wigmore
Thursday, October 17
1pm - 2:30 pm
LB321
Hannah Calder has been an editor in
Vancouver, an English teacher in Seoul, and a translator in Barcelona. She
earned her MA in English Literature in 2004 from Simon Fraser University and
has published poetry and fiction in West
Coast Line, The Capilano Review and
dANDelion. Born in England, Hannah grew up there and in BC and currently
lives in Vernon where she teaches English at Okanagan College. More House, her first book, was
published by New Star Books in 2009.
Gillian Wigmore is the author of two
books of poems: soft geography
(2007), winner of the 2008 ReLit Award, and Dirt
of Ages (2012). Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in journals and
anthologies and been nominated for awards including the Dorothy Livesay BC Book
Prize for Poetry and the Great BC Novel Prize. A book of fiction with
MotherTongue Publishing and a book of poems with Brick Books are both
forthcoming in 2014. She lives in Prince George, BC.
Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for this reading.
