PUTTING YOURSELF ON PAPER

TUES MAR 10

7.30p.m.-9.00p.m. Newcomer Learning Centre, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library

Our guest Lise Lévesque will speak of the joys and pitfalls of crafting a memoir. Her intention is to compare her own process to that of writing a novel.

Montreal-born Lise Lévesque worked in the fields of travel, communication, education and mental health. A graduate of the McMaster`s Writing Program, she thrives on travelling, research, reading and writing. Her stories have been published in anthologies such as Main Street, In the Wings, Brought to Light and Engraved. At present she is putting the final touches on her memoir entitled On the Way to the Lilac Garden.

WRITING COLLABORATIONS with GARY BARWIN

Tuesday FEB 11

7.30p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-four books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His work includes many collaborations works with writers as well as with other artforms. His latest books include A Cemetery for Holes, a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon Hill, Fall 2019) and For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, Fall 2019.) His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates (Random House Canada) won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction) and the Hamilton Book Award (Fiction). It was also a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A new novel, Don’t Fence Me In will appear from Random House in 2021. Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities and public libraries and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus) as well as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com