Edges and Changes: Aimee Wall & Kavita Bedford

Kavita Bedford, Aimee Wall and Stacey May Fowles

Edges and Changes: Aimee Wall & Kavita Bedford

Kavita Bedford, Aimee Wall and Stacey May Fowles

8:00pm

Friday, October 22, 2021

Two debut authors and 2021 literary award contenders, Kavita Bedford and Aimee Wall, present their remarkable first novels in conversation with Stacey May Fowles. Australian-Indian writer Bedford introduces Friends and Dark Shapes, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. The story chronicles a group of housemates in Sydney contending with gentrification, divisive politics, stalled careers and the evolving world of dating. Canadian writer Wall presents We, Jane, longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The book follows the story of two dutiful care workers on a quest to protect and provide essential abortion services in a small Newfoundland town, and underscores the complexity of relationships in close circles and the inevitable heartache of home.

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Two debut authors and 2021 literary award contenders, Kavita Bedford and Aimee Wall, present their remarkable first novels in conversation with Stacey May Fowles. Australian-Indian writer Bedford introduces Friends and Dark Shapes, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. The story chronicles a group of housemates in Sydney contending with gentrification, divisive politics, stalled careers and the evolving world of dating. Canadian writer Wall presents We, Jane, longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The book follows the story of two dutiful care workers on a quest to protect and provide essential abortion services in a small Newfoundland town, and underscores the complexity of relationships in close circles and the inevitable heartache of home.

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Featured Authors

Kavita Bedford
Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian and she was a recent Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives. She works and teaches in Sydney in media and global studies. Friends and Dark Shapes is her first novel.

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Aimee Wall
Aimee Wall is a writer and translator. Her essays, short fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including Maisonneuve, Matrix Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books and Lemon Hound. Wall’s translations include Vickie Gendreau’s novels Testament (2016), and Drama Queens (2019) and Sports and Pastimes by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard (2017). Originally from Newfoundland, Wall lives in Montreal. We, Jane is her first novel.

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Stacey May Fowles
Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, essayist and author of four books. Her bylines include The Globe and Mail, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, Vice, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, Reader’s Digest and many others. Her most recent book, Baseball Life Advice, was published by McClelland & Stewart in spring 2017, was a national bestseller and was selected by The Globe and Mail and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year. Fowles recently co-edited the forthcoming anthology Good Mom on Paper (book*hug) and her children’s book, The Invitation, will be released with Groundwood Books in 2023.

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8:00pm

Friday, October 22

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