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April 15-18, 2021 Curling up with a Good Book Is a Form of Social Distancing, Right? APRIL 15-18, 2021 CURLING UP WITH A GOOD BOOK IS A FORM OF SOCIAL DISTANCING, RIGHT? GRITLITgritlit gritlit.ca YOUR GUIDE TO GRITLIT 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME 4 ABOUT GRITLIT 5 TICKET INFORMATION 6 EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 7 SPOTLIGHT SERIES 16 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 18-19 MEET THE AUTHORS 20 MODERATORS & GUESTS 27 OUR SPONSORS 28 gritlitfestival 3 GRITLITgritlit INTRODUCTION WELCOME TO GRITLIT For gritLIT, as for many arts organizations, this has been a live, DIY gritLIT cocktail tutorial. Registration is limited a year of change as we navigate the world of all-virtual at all workshops and interactive events, so make sure to programming. While we are looking forward to seeing sign up early. your smiling, book-loving faces again at future festivals, we are beyond grateful to have the capacity and Finally, we have devoted our closing Drafts and Drafts technology to still bring you a full weekend of dynamic reading this year to giving you an exclusive peek into events featuring some of the most exciting authors the minds of some of our amazing local authors. Grab writing in Canada today. yourself a beer, or any beverage of your choice, as I and gritLIT Board Member Anuja Varghese chat with gritLIT 2021 features panel discussions on some of the eight – yes, eight! – amazing Hamilton authors and invite most pressing concerns facing our community and our them to read from a work-in-progress. nation. From How We Talk About Grief to On Race, Politics and Property, the conversations promise to be Every year, I reserve that last paragraph of this message lively, engaging and very topical in light of issues that to thank our supporters, and never has that been more events of the past year have brought into sharp focus. important than it is now. Thank you to all the grantors As always, we also have readings from amazing fiction and sponsors whose logos you will find in this program. writers, memoirists and poets to spark your imagination It is their support that keeps the arts alive through times and help you build your own spring/summer reading list, like these. Thank you so much to our amazing gritLIT and our 2021 Spotlight Series Selector, Jael Richardson, fans, many of whom made donations to the festival has chosen two exciting new authors to be the focus of last year and who continue to support us by attending a not-to-be-missed Spotlight event on Saturday, April 17. online programs. Thank you to all the dedicated and hard-working gritLIT board members, operations team Until we can meet again in person, we have tried to members and volunteers. We couldn’t do it without you. make our online festival as interactive and hands-on as Last but never least, thank you to our bookseller, Jaime possible. Eight authors will be sharing their expertise in Krakowski, and her team at Epic Books in Hamilton. writing workshops. We have partnered with Hub of the We will miss seeing Jaime – and all of you – in the Hammer to bring you three different literary-themed gritLIT bookstore, but make sure to visit her online at games. We are running a real-time flash fiction contest, epicbooks.ca and take advantage of your gritLIT 2021 and Hamilton’s own Krista Foss, author of Smoke discount! River and the just-released Half Life, will lead a book club discussion about the work of another wonderful HAPPY READING! Hamilton writer, Denise Davy (Her Name Was Margaret). And if that isn’t enough to get you excited about coming Jennifer Gillies, Artistic Director to the festival, we are inviting you all to a Saturday night after-party featuring a chance to chat about books and 4 gritlitfestival gritlit.ca ABOUT GRITLIT OUR MANDATE gritLIT brings the best contemporary Canadian writers to Hamilton to engage with local booklovers, to inspire and to be inspired by Hamilton authors, to promote a love of reading in young audiences and to celebrate the exchange of diverse ideas, experiences and viewpoints. BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR: Leah Faieta PAST CHAIR: Annette Hamm SECRETARY: Melanie Cummings TREASURER: Pat McKay DIRECTORS: Erin Dunham, Selena Middleton, Aurora Gutierrez-Ruiz, Maryanne Scime, Anuja Varghese OPERATIONS TEAM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Jennifer Gillies FESTIVAL ASSISTANT: Jennifer Rawlinson MARKETING MANAGER: Jessica Rose MARKETING TEAM: Paige Petrovsky DESIGN: Oh Sierra VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT: Diane Elliott, Lia Davis-Munro, Rachel Nowak STAGE MANAGEMENT: Joe Criger, Rachel Nowak HOSPITALITY: Yvonne Stoikos WRITING CONTEST: Elizabeth Obermeyer BOOKSELLER: Epic Books PROGRAM ADVISORS Ann Y.K. Choi, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Annette Hamm, Nairne Holtz, Jaime Krakowski, Jamie Tennant THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS gritLIT relies on a team of dedicated volunteers to keep the festival growing. Thank you to our amazing board of directors, operations team and program advisory team for their tireless efforts throughout the year. Thank you to the community members and high school students who help out during festival weekend and at gritLIT events year-round. There would not be a festival without you! If you are interested in volunteering with gritLIT, email [email protected] DID YOU KNOW? gritLIT is a registered Canadian charity. As such, the work we do would not be possible without the support and generosity of our wonderful sponsors and donors. If you would like to donate to help keep gritLIT going, please visit gritlit.ca. You can donate as a one-time-only event, or set up a monthly donation to help your local readers and writers festival continue to grow. gritlitfestival 5 GRITLITgritlit EVENT TICKETS Festival Pass: $25 Reading/Panel/Interview: $5 Writing Workshops (75-90 minutes): $25 (Limited Registration) Interactive and Other Special Events: Please see event descriptions Tickets available online at gritlit.ca 4 DAYS 29 AUTHORS 30 EVENTS 8 WORKSHOPS 1 ONLINE FESTIVAL JOIN US ONLINE, APRIL 15-18, 2021. TICKETS AND PASSES ON SALE NOW AT GRITLIT.CA 6 gritlitfestival gritlit.ca EVENT SCHEDULE ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE VIA ZOOM. VOICE-TO-TEXT TRANSCRIPTION WILL BE ENABLED FOR ALL EVENTS. THURSDAY, APRIL 15 IN CONVERSATION WITH JAEL RICHARDSON AUTHOR AND 2021 GRITLIT SPOTLIGHT SERIES SELECTOR 7:00PM A dynamic presence in the Canadian book world, Jael Richardson is the artistic director of the FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s q, and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. Her debut novel, Gutter Child, is a dystopian story of courage and resilience set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom. Join us on opening night as gritLIT Artistic Director Jennifer Gillies sits down with Richardson to talk about her writing, her role at the FOLD and her gritLIT 2021 Spotlight Series picks. special event hosted by gritLit Artistic Director Jennifer Gillies GHOSTS FROM THE PAST 8:30PM Through absorbing tales of memory, motherhood, and forgiveness, Francesca Ekwuyasi and Krista Foss explore family stories in their most-recent offerings of fiction. In Butter Honey Pig Bread, a 2021 Canada Reads finalist, Ekwuyasi shares the intergenerational saga of three Nigerian women and the choices and consequences that define them. Similarly, Half Life, the most recent novel by Hamilton’s Krista Foss, is a beautifully rendered story about family, truth and resilience. reading gritlitfestival 7 GRITLITgritlit FRIDAY, APRIL 16 IN CONVERSATION WITH HAZEL JANE PLANTE 2:00PM A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante is both playful and poignant. It won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award (for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature), and a finalist for a BC and Yukon Book Prize. In this intimate conversation, fellow authors Nairne Holtz and Casey Plett talk to Plante about her debut novel. interview with co-interviewers Nairne Holtz and Casey Plett THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3:30PM Chaos theory postulates that a minute, localized change in a system can have enormous and unpredictable long- range consequences – like the flapping of a butterfly’s wings causing a windstorm on the other side of the world. So what would the consequences be of going back in time and changing something significant? Join novelists Dennis Bock (The Good German) and Brent van Staalduinen (Boy) as they share stories based on this intriguing, sometimes horrifying, question? reading hosted by gritLIT Program Advisor Ann Y.K. Choi MAKING UP PAST TIME: USING HISTORY AND PERSONAL STORIES IN LITERARY FICTION WITH GARY BARWIN 3:30PM In this interactive writing workshop, award-winning author Gary Barwin explores how to creatively engage with history and personal stories in fiction. How do writers avoid getting creatively stifled or bogged down with facts and instead learn how to use research to enliven their writing and to stimulate energizing and imaginative possibilities for what the work can be? Participants will discuss how to uncover interesting details and stories and will try out a range of writing activities employing some of the strategies. writing workshop THE STORY NEVER ENDS VISIT GRITLIT.CA FOR NEWS + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT 8 gritlitfestival gritlit.ca FLASH FICTION CONTEST 6:00PM Think you can harness your creative muse is less than one hour? Register to compete in the gritLIT 2021 Flash Fiction Contest. We will give you the prompts, and you will have 45 minutes to craft a story of no more than 500 words. The winning author will be announced at Drafts and Drafts on Sunday, April 18 and will receive a $100 gift certificate from Epic Books. Registration is limited. Entry fee: $5 interactive LET ME TELL YOU MY STORY 7:00PM Exploring his family’s Indigenous roots, David A.
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