Mark Your Calendars - Canada Council Author Readings

Halifax Public Libraries, with funding support from The Canada Council for the Arts, will be hosting two of Canada's top writers this Fall.

Award winning authors Wayson Choy and Alistair MacLeod are slated to read at Halifax Public Libraries this Fall:

Wayson Choy @

Spring Garden Road Branch,

Tuesday October 6th, 7:00 pm;

Alistair MacLeod @

Keshen Goodman Library,

Monday Oct 26th, 7:00 pm.

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Alistair MacLeod will be reading from his classic novel, No Great Mischief.

You may also want to mark your calendar for the debut of David S. Young's stage adaptation of No Great Mischief at Neptune Theatre this fall.

Also by Alistair MacLeod:

Island: collected short stories of Alistair MacLeod

The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories

To Every Thing There is a Season: a Cape Breton Christmas story

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Wayson Choy will be reading from his latest work, the

fascinating memoir, Not Yet: a memoir of living and almost dying.

Here is a recent review:

"In lovely prose, he captures the beauty and imperfection of being human."

Shawn Syms,

Quill and Quire April 2009

Also by Wayson Choy:

Jade Peony: a novel

All That Matters : a novel

Paper Shadows: a Chinatown childhood