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Darren Ridgley & Adam Petrash (Eds.) Alternate Plains Book Launch

Saturday Oct 30 2021 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube
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Join us as we celebrate the launch of Alternate Plains: Stories of Prairie Speculative Fiction (Great Plains Publications). Hosted by Darren Ridgley and Adam Petrash. Featuring readings and conversation with contributors Linda Trinh and Sheldon Birnie.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

A man runs for his life from the promise of death held by trees; a lost VHS tape offers footage of a lost, grisly history; a diaspora clings to magical shards of home and more in this collection of genre fiction by authors from across the Canadian Prairies.

Darren Ridgley is a journalist and genre fiction writer residing in Winnipeg. Originally from sleepy Killarney, Man., Darren often evokes his rural roots in his writing, as well as his Polish and Atlantic-Canadian heritage. He is the co-editor of Parallel Prairies: Stories of Manitoba Speculative Fiction.

Adam Petrash is an author and editor from Winnipeg. He is the co-editor of the speculative fiction anthology, Parallel Prairies: Stories of Manitoba Speculative Fiction, and the author of a novella, The Ones to Make it Through. His work has appeared in a handful of journals throughout North America. 

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Alternate Plains

- Darren Ridgley , Adam Petrash

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A man runs for his life from the promise of death held by trees; a lost VHS tape offers footage of a lost, grisly history; a diaspora clings to magical shards of home and more in this collection of genre fiction by authors from across the Canadian Prairies. A follow-up to 2018's hit, Parallel Prairies.