The Monsters Amongst Us with Cherie Dimaline & Patrick Ness

Cherie Dimaline, Patrick Ness and Janet Smyth

The Monsters Amongst Us with Cherie Dimaline & Patrick Ness

Cherie Dimaline, Patrick Ness and Janet Smyth

4:00pm

Sunday, October 31, 2021

What happens when the most frightening of monsters aren’t mythical or magical, but are ourselves? Join two leading writers for a fascinating, potentially uncomfortable but honest discussion. Governor General’s Literary Award-winner Cherie Dimaline and twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness challenge our self-awareness as they present their highly anticipated new, young adult novels. Ness brings us Burn, an all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons; and Dimaline unveils Hunting By Stars, the thrilling follow up to The Marrow Thieves, depicting a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream. Plus there is the opportunity for live audience Q&A. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

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TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

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What happens when the most frightening of monsters aren’t mythical or magical, but are ourselves? Join two leading writers for a fascinating, potentially uncomfortable but honest discussion. Governor General’s Literary Award-winner Cherie Dimaline and twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness challenge our self-awareness as they present their highly anticipated new, young adult novels. Ness brings us Burn, an all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons; and Dimaline unveils Hunting By Stars, the thrilling follow up to The Marrow Thieves, depicting a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream. Plus there is the opportunity for live audience Q&A. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

Conversation
Reading

Featured Authors

Cherie Dimaline
Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario who has published five books. Her most recent novel, Empire of Wild, became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019. Cherie lives in Ontario, on her ancestral grounds, where she is working on a new (unrelated) YA book, her next adult novel, as well as the forthcoming TV adaptations for The Marrow Thieves and Empire of Wild. Her latest book, a follow up to The Marrow Thieves, is Hunting by Stars.

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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is the author of ten previous novels and a short story collection. He won the Carnegie Medal, the highest award for children’s books in the UK, twice in a row for Monsters of Men and the #1 New York Times bestselling novel A Monster Calls, which was also released as a motion picture with a screenplay by Patrick himself. Born in Virginia, Patrick lived in England for twenty years before recently relocating to Los Angeles.

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Janet Smyth
Janet Smyth is an arts programme consultant specialising in strategic planning of events, programmes and projects for children, young people, educators and care-givers within festivals and creative spaces. She has worked with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the National Galleries of Scotland, Seven Stories in Newcastle and is currently Children’s and Families Programmer for International Literature Festival Dublin, Programme Consultant for the Bath Children's Literature Festival and Reading is Magic virtual festival, Children and Families Programme Curator for the Boswell Book Festival in Scotland and Programme Consultant for the TIFA Kids 2021 Festival.

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4:00pm

Sunday, October 31

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