The Liar
& the Lai:
Join us for the spring
launch of the 2016 issue of The Liar (Capilano University’s
student-run literary journal) – featuring
novelist Larissa Lai.
Date: Saturday, April 16th, 2016
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Our Town Café (245 E Broadway @ Kingsway)
Featuring: An open-mic with readings from contributors & Guest of Honour,
novelist Larissa Lai
Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt
Fish Girl; two books of poetry, sybil unrest (with Rita Wong) and Automaton
Biographies; a chapbook, Eggs in the Basement; and most recently, a
critical book, Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production
in the 1980s and 1990s. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging
Writers’ Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First
Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, the Sunburst Award, the City of Calgary W.O.
Mitchell Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She
holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary
and directs The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing there.
The Liar is Capilano University’s independent literary magazine. Since 1987, the
zine has been edited, designed, and produced by a rotating group of students. The Liar publishes cutting edge new
works in all genres.
