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Friday Oct 04 2024 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon
Join poets jaz papadopoulos and Jes Battis to celebrate the joint launch of their new poetry collections, I Feel That Way Too and I Hate Parties (both from Nightwood Editions).
This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Read Event DetailsFriday Oct 04 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press, publishes stories by emerging and established Indigenous writers, many of which go on to receive critical acclaim. Tonight we celebrate the launch of six new graphic novels that honour and support Indigenous resurgence by amplifying narratives that share joy, creativity, strength, bravery, and community. Presented as part of the Prairie Comics Festival, with support provided by the Manitoba Arts Council.
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Join the authors, illustrators, and contributors as they share their stories and then stick around to meet with the creators and have copies of their work signed. Hosted by Irene Velentzas, HighWater Press comics and graphic novel editor of all six graphic novels launching tonight.
Participants include author Albert McLeod, contributor Elaine Mordoch, and artist Alice RL (Between the Pipes); author David A. Robertson and artist Scott B. Henderson (God Flare); author Jen Storm and artist Ryan Howe (Little Moons); author Sonya Ballantyne (also script writer for Between the Pipes) and artist Rhael McGregor (Little by Little); author Tasha Spillett (We Are the Medicine); and author Gitz Crazyboy and letterer Toben Racicot (The Rez Doctor).
Saturday Oct 05 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join acclaimed Canadian comics creators E.M. Carroll and Faith Erin Hicks as they discuss their work as part of Prairie Comics Festival 2024.
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
E.M. Carroll is the writer and artist of numerous award-winning comics, both online and in print. Their debut horror comics collection, Through the Woods, won both the Eisner Award and the British Fantasy Award in 2014. Recent work includes When I Arrived at the Castle from Koyama Press, a baroque horror story dealing with lust and addiction, a graphic novel adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak, and A Guest in the House. They are also known for the short comics they posts on their website. E.M. lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, with two dogs and their wife, artist Kate Craig.
Faith Erin Hicks is a writer and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her published works include The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Friends with Boys, The Nameless City trilogy, Pumpkinheads (with Rainbow Rowell), One Year at Ellsmere and the young adult novel Comics Will Break Your Heart. She has won two Eisner Awards, and Pumpkinheads was a New York Times bestseller.
Tuesday Oct 08 2024 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon
Join Roxana Spicer for the Saskatoon launch of her new memoir The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past (Penguin Canada).
This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Read Event DetailsWednesday Oct 09 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join Ralph Friesen for the launch of "Prosperity Ever, Depression Never": Steinbach in the 1930s (Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society).
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
The village of Steinbach, Manitoba, defied the odds in the Depression years, actually growing and progressing during that devastating time. How did this happen?
Friesen’s book provides an explanation for this phenomenon, with a detailed chapter on the village’s “backbone”—its Main Street, where commerce was conducted and small entertainments could be found. The story moves from one end of the street to the other, using the original lots of the 1874 pioneers as a structure on which to hang various facts and anecdotes. The book draws on memoirs, the diaries of the author’s father, and articles and letters from the Steinbach Post. Photographs of the era and detailed maps are also included.
The arc of the story shows the transition of the village of Steinbach from a somewhat isolated Mennonite village toward a modern community on the Canadian prairies. At the same time it shows that Steinbach maintained a strong Mennonite identity.
Ralph Friesen was born in Steinbach in 1945, the youngest of six children. He has Masters degrees in English Literature and Marriage and Family Therapy. Friesen has published short fiction, poetry, reviews and historical articles in a variety of magazines and periodicals. He is the writer of a family history entitled Abraham S. Friesen, Steinbach Pioneer and a history of his home town entitled Between Earth & Sky: Steinbach, the First 50 Years. He has also published a biography/memoir called Dad, God, & Me. Friesen is married, with two adult children and five grandchildren, and lives with his wife Hannah in Victoria, BC.
Thursday Oct 10 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Please join Prairie Fire Press as we launch 50 OVER 50! The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
This is the first part of a two-part special issue celebrating women writers aged 50 and over in Canada. The focus in this first issue will be primarily on our own Manitoba women, as well as those from the west. As guest editor, Katherine Bitney writes in her introduction, “Sometimes our voices, our narratives, get lost in the crowning of newer and younger writers. But yes, we are out there, writing, and speaking, calling in ancestral and autobiographical voices, keeping the flames of the past and of life experience burning.” This special issue features beautiful cover art by KC Adams. The evening will be introduced by Katherine Bitney, and hosted by the lovely Charlene Diehl.
Readings by KC Adams, Jody Baltessen, Donna Besel, Di Brandt, Ariel Gordon, Nancy Hall, Mary Horodyski, Catherine Hunter, Sarah Klassen, Rowan McCandless, Daria Salamon, Deborah Schnitzer, Barbara Schott, and Margaret Sweatman.
Tuesday Oct 15 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join S.M. Beiko for the launch of The Door in Lake Mallion: The Brindlewatch Quintet, Book Two (ECW Press).
The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
The Door in Lake Mallion brings readers into a world of magic, monsters, and the folks who love them, telling a story of dazzling performers, glowing mushroom cities, and the power of shining our light for everyone to see.
S.M. Beiko is a Winnipeg-based fantasy author and award-winning graphic novelist. Her work includes The Lake and the Library, the Realms of Ancient trilogy, and the Kirkus Reviews-starred The Stars of Mount Quixx. Beiko has won the Aurora Award and was nominated for the 2020 Joe Shuster Award.
Wednesday Oct 16 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join Lloyd Axworthy for the Winnipeg launch of his memoir Lloyd Axworthy: My Life in Politics (Sutherland House). Featuring a discussion of the book hosted by Marjorie Anderson followed by a signing.
The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
In this memoir, Lloyd Axworthy tells the unlikely story of a Canadian prairie boy raised in the Social Gospel tradition becoming a prominent force in both national and international politics. After studying politics at Princeton at the height of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, and marching for civil rights in Alabama, he returned to Canada and embarked on an illustrious political career at the height of Trudeaumania. Axworthy served as MLA in the Manitoba legislature for six years followed by twenty-one years in the House of Commons, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chretien.
With candour and introspection, he invites readers inside his roles in some of the most important political stories of the last half century, including the enactment of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the great debate over the Canada-US free trade agreement, and the global fights to ban landmines and establish the International Criminal Court.
Lloyd Axworthy is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In 2000, he retired from politics, returning to western Canada where he served as President of the University of Winnipeg for ten years. In December, 2015 he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. He now chairs the World Refugee and Migration Council and lives with his wife Denise, in Ottawa.
Host Marjorie Anderson’s professional experiences include teaching literature and communication at the University of Manitoba, co-editing the Dropped Threads anthologies with Carol Shields, and most recently, working as a freelance editor and instructor of creative writing. She feels especially pleased to be part of this launch of Lloyd Axworthy’s memoir, My Life in Politics, which she describes as, “a captivating and heartening look at a political life based on integrity, wisdom, and an unshakeable commitment to doing good in the world.”
Thursday Oct 17 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join Nora Foster Stovel for the launch of The Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays by Carol Shields (University of Manitoba Press). This event features a conversation with Mavis Reimer (University of Winnipeg).
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected. Invaluable to admirers of Shields’s work, these writings discovered by Nora Foster Stovel reflect Shields’s interest in the relationships between reality and fiction, mothers and daughters, and gender and genre. They also reveal her love of Winnipeg, her home for twenty years.
Carol Shields (1935–2003) was an American-born Canadian award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, and poet.
Nora Foster Stovel is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta. She has published on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Laurence, and Carol Shields, including The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields and Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders.
Mavis Reimer is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) at The University of Winnipeg.
Friday Oct 18 2024 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon
Join author Alison Lohans for the launch of her new children's book The Wind and Amanda's Cello (Shadowpaw Press).
This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Read Event DetailsMonday Oct 21 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join us for an evening with fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker as she comes to Winnipeg to discuss and sign her book Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn (Simon & Schuster Canada), an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time. The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
Jeanne Beker’s name is synonymous with style and grace in fashion. Recognized by many as the beloved host of Fashion Television and The NewMusic, Jeanne has spent an entire career interviewing celebrities and uncovering their most private selves. Now, in Heart on My Sleeve, Jeanne reveals who she is in an all-new way. This is not just a memoir but a wardrobe of memory. Jeanne walks us through her recollections of specific pieces of clothing and jewelry, precious items that have made an indelible impact on her. She invites readers to think more deeply about how what we wear—whether it’s a thrift-store find or high-end couture—acts as a touchstone to our most treasured recollections, reminding us of who we once were or of loved ones we hold dear. Featuring appearances from a star-studded cast inlcuding Paul McCartney, Madonna, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, Oscar de la Renta, Beyoncé, and Keith Richards as well as Beker's own close circle of family and friends.
Jeanne Beker was the host of the hit show Fashion Television, which aired in over 130 countries for twenty-seven years and was one of the most successful shows in Canadian TV history. Prior to that, she hosted the groundbreaking show The NewMusic and was a founding member of MuchMusic. A seasoned newspaper and magazine columnist, Jeanne was editor-in-chief of FQ and SIR magazines from 2003 to 2009. Currently, she is a frequent keynote speaker and style editor for TSC, where she hosts her eponymous show Style Matters. Jeanne has received honorary doctorates from St. Mary’s University and OCAD University. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2013, inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Hall of Legends in 2015, and received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2016. Jeanne lives in Toronto.
Tuesday Oct 22 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join jaz papadopoulos for the Winnipeg launch of their debut poetry collection, I Feel That Way Too (Nightwood Editions). Featuring a reading and conversation hosted by Hannah Godfrey, followed by a book signing.
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
Lambda Literary Fellow jaz papadopoulos offers a poetically critical look at how sexual assault trials impact survivors.
A critical response to the #MeToo movement, I Feel That Way Too is an experiment in narrative poetics. It weaves through past and present, drawing together art, philosophy, the Jian Ghomeshi trial and childhood memory to interrogate how media and social power structures sustain patriarchal ideologies. Inspired by the works of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Anne Carson, A.M. O’Malley and Isobel O’Hare, these poems are lyrical and meditative, moving to make sense of the nervous system in battle and in recovery.
jaz papadopoulos (they/them) is an interdisciplinary writer, educator and video artist. They hold an MFA from the University of British Columbia and are a Lambda Literary Fellow. A self-described emotionalist and avid Anne Carson fan, jaz is interested in media, horticulture, lyricism, nervous systems, anarchism and erotics. Originally from Treaty 1 territory, jaz currently resides on unceded Syilx lands. I Feel That Way Too is their debut poetry collection.
Hannah Godfrey/hannah_g is an artist, curator, and writer. Her work is informed by queer echo-locating, contemporary art, and recollection. She is the Curator of Galerie Buhler Gallery in St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory.
Wednesday Oct 23 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join us for an evening with acclaimed author Jón Kalman Stefánsson as he visits Winnipeg to discuss his novel Your Absence Is Darkness (Biblioasis), a spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists. Featuring a conversation hosted by McNally Robinson co-owner, Chris Hall. Co-presented by the Consulate General of Iceland in Winnipeg, the Icelandic Canadian Frón, and Lögberg-Heimskringla.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Incandescent and elemental, hope-filled and humane, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality, music, and the strange salve of time, and a spellbinding saga of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. All "...rendered here in a tumblingly beautiful translation by Philip Roughton” (Daniel Mason, New York Times).
Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, and his novel Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel, Fish Have No Feet, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
Host Chris Hall has been with McNally Robinson Booksellers for more than twenty-five years, more than ten of which as owner. When he isn't reading or walking he loves to travel and cook. He lives in Winnipeg and is currently training his daughters to be booksellers.
Wednesday Oct 23 2024 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon
Join K.D. Kirchmeier for the Saskatoon launch of his fantasy novel The Shadow Road (Bloomsbury).
This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Read Event DetailsThursday Oct 24 2024 7:00 pm - The Crescent Arts Centre (Winnipeg), Winnipeg
This is an offsite event that will take place at the Crescent Arts Centre (Winnipeg) at 525 Wardlaw Avenue. Tickets are now on sale. CLICK HERE. This event will NOT be streamed on our YouTube channel. Please note that the CAC is simply the venue for this event and should not receive any inquiries. Call the store at 204-475-0483 if you have any questions.
McNally Robinson Booksellers, Pan Macmillan, and PGC Canada invite you to join Ann Cleeves, the award-winning, bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland series, for a special "in conversation" event around her latest Vera Stanhope novel, The Dark Wives (MacMillan). Hosted by Joan Thomas, author of Wild Hope, winner of the 2024 Howard Engel Award for best crime novel set in Canada.
Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.
Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in North Tyneside where the Vera books are set.
Host Joan Thomas’s five novels are intimate depictions of characters in times of rapid social change. Five Wives won the 2019 Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, and was described by the Globe and Mail as “brilliant, eloquent, curious, and far-seeing.” Her recent novel, Wild Hope, is a love story, a mystery, and a page-turning indictment of contemporary values. It won the 2024 Howard Engle Award for Best Crime Novel set in Canada. Joan lives in Winnipeg.
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