Sat, Oct 31  •  11:30am

Folklore & Fierce Women

Bar Fridman-Tell and Lindsay Wong

Join this talk on witchcraft of mythology from these two authors

Fiction
Conversation
Pass Required
Passes available
Folklore & Fierce Women
Folklore & Fierce Women

Sat, Oct 31  •  11:30am

Folklore & Fierce Women

Bar Fridman-Tell and Lindsay Wong

Join this talk on witchcraft of mythology from these two authors

Conversation
Fiction
Pass Required
Passes available

About

Myth, magic and unreal expectations collide as Bar Fridman-Tell and Lindsay Wong discuss their genre-melding novels set around folklore and the supernatural. Loosely based on Welsh mythology, Fridman-Tell’s Honeysuckle follows Daye, a girl literally made from flowers as a friend for Rory, and their changing relationship as the seasons change and Rory grows up. Wong’s Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies follows a broke MFA dropout, who agrees to become a corpse bride to save her family, only to become entangled in witchcraft and societal expectations. Together, the authors explore friendship, womanhood, transformation and the stories we inherit.

“Keenly observant and wryly funny. . . . A vital, utterly unexpected novel, Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is a fresh and riotous gift of fiction.” —Quill & Quire*STARRED REVIEW!* A young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage in this wickedly hilarious novel about class, ambition, and the burden of being an impoverished model minority.

Published by Penguin Random House Canada

In a lush, quiet field, a girl made of flowers opens her eyes and meets Rory, a boy who is desperate to have a friend. Magic and horror collide in this stunning debut that explores power, consent, loneliness, and what makes a person. She was made for him. Daye was woven together from flowers and magic to be the perfect playmate for Rory, a young boy left isolated in a remote country estate.

Published by Simon & Schuster Canada

Bar Fridman-Tell has a BA in art history and an MA in English literature. (She gleefully wrote her thesis about Victorian vampires.) She has worked as a bartender, a bookseller, a translator, and a library assistant. She is currently studying for a master’s in library and information sciences, hoping to stay in a library for good.

Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune and Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality, a critically-acclaimed collection of short stories.

Dates & Times

Sat, Oct 31
11:30am
12:30pm
A book signing will follow this event

Tickets

Full Festival Pass
SOLD OUT
Regular $159
Under 30 $79
5-Day Festival Pass
Includes 5-day festival events. Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $159
Under 30 $79
2-Day Weekend
Includes all Victoria University events. Excludes Winter Garden Theatre events and Masterclasses.
Regular $69
Under 30 $39
1-Day Saturday
Includes all Saturday events.
Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $39
Under 30 $29
Pass Information
5-Day Festival Pass includes Barbara Kingsolver and East West Street: A Song of Good & Evil .
2-Day Weekend and 1-Day Passes do not include Winter Garden Theatre events.

Venue

Victoria College Chapel
91 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7

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