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Join authors Jean Marc Ah-Sen and Alex Pugsley as they talk about writing books about writers falling in love with other writers and the emotional turmoil that comes from it. In Ah-Sen’s Kilworthy Tanner, Jonno befriends provocative writer Kilworthy Tanner and they begin writing novels together—and Jonno has to learn how to cope with their complicated relationship. In the follow up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee, The Education of Aubrey McKee follows the title character as he falls in and out of love with a poet in 1990s Toronto. With both novels set in the Toronto literary scene, the authors will have plenty to talk about how the city is central to their inspirations.

Moderator: Tomas Hachard

This event is supported by Toronto Lit Up.

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Jean Marc Ah-Sen

Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur and In the Beggarly Style of Imitation. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult, The Comics Journal, Maclean's, Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus and The Toronto Star. The National Post has hailed his writing as "an inventive escape from the conventional." Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s Festival appearance is generously supported by Toronto Lit Up.

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Alex Pugsley

As a screenwriter and story editor, Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Ennis Esmer, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd and Michael Cera, and for such series as Hudson & Rex, The Eleventh Hour, Life With Derek, Heartland, The Jane Show, G-Spot, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, The Gavin Crawford Show and Baxter, a show he co-created. He wrote and directed the feature film Dirty Singles which won for him the Irving Avrich Emerging Filmmaker Award at TIFF.

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Photo credit: John Lauener.