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Dr. Margaret Kress Launching Land As Relation (In Person + Streaming)

Thursday Sep 21 2023 6:30 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon

Join Dr. Margaret Kress for the launch of Land As Relation (Canadian Scholars Press), co-edited by Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller. Special guests for the evening include contributors Marjorie Beaucage, a Two Spirit Michif Elder, filmmaker, artist, activist and educator, Joseph Naytowhow, a Cree Traditional Knowledge Keeper and international artist, Dustin Brass, nahkwē okihkinahomākēk is an educator from the Key First Nation, Yvonne Vizina, a Métis educator, scholar and Knowledge Keeper, and Barbara Robinson, an ally, teacher, healer, collaborator of Juan Carlos Palomino Berndt, Amazonia naturalist and researcher.

The event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove **at 6:30 PM**, and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will remain available for viewing thereafter.  Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

Land as Relation
 introduces readers to an intersectional approach to Indigenous space and land-based education. Indigenous and ally-partnered contributors, from elders to emerging and established scholars, share teachings and scholarship grounded in Indigenous knowledge and philosophy. These perspectives on Indigenous pedagogies are intersected with content surrounding Indigenous languages, sciences, mathematics, arts, health, and governance.

Indigenous resistance and renaissance is essential for learners everywhere to understand how a collective notion of land education contributes to walking in harmony and balance, not only for themselves, but for their families, the larger communities that they are a part of, and the world. This collection is an accessible and engaging core resource for undergraduate and graduate students of education, Indigenous studies, geography, and environmental studies.

Dr. Margaret Kress originates from the south grasslands in Treaty Four territory and the Métis homelands. She carries the name Tahkwaki Waapikwani Iskwew (Bear Clan) and is of Michif, French, English and German descent. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick.

Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller is Akskare:wake (Bear Clan) from the Kanienkehaka community of Kahnawake. She is an Associate Professor in the school of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and holds the inaugural role of Assistant Vice President Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research at Carleton University.


David Bergen Hybrid Book Launch

Thursday Sep 21 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join us as we celebrate the launch of David Bergen's new novel Away from the Dead (Goose Lane Editions). This event features a reading and a conversation hosted by Maurice Mierau. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2023: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

In Away from the Dead, David Bergen takes us to a place where chaos reigns, where answers come from everywhere and nowhere, and where both the beauty and horror of humanity are on full display. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. A bookseller south of Kiev deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; a beautiful young peasant tries to stop a Mennonite landowner from stealing her child. In a world of violence, these three learn to love and hate and love again, hoping, against all odds, that one can turn away from the dead.

Praised by the Montreal Gazette as "one of Canada’s best writers" and by the Globe and Mail as "inventive and electrifying," David Bergen is the bestselling author of numerous acclaimed novels and short-story collections, including The Time In Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Out of Mind, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Away from the Dead is his thirteenth book of fiction. He lives in Winnipeg.

Maurice Mierau’s last book was a monograph on the poetry of Patrick Friesen, How Mind and Body Move. His memoir, Detachment, won the Kobzar Literary Award, as well as the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His poetry collections are Autobiographical Fictions, Fear Not--winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry--and Ending with Music. Mierau was founding editor of the Canadian fiction imprint Enfield & Wizenty, and of the online magazine Winnipeg Review.

Joan Thomas Hybrid Book Launch

Friday Sep 22 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Joan Thomas for the hybrid launch of her new novel Wild Hope (HarperCollins Canada) featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers. A book signing will follow. Co-presented by The Winnipeg International Writers Festival as part of THIN AIR 2023.

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

From the Governor General's Award–­winning author of Five Wives comes a thrilling contemporary novel about how the past never lets us go. Seamlessly weaving together observations on the entitlements of the wealthy, the monetization of water and the politics of art, Joan Thomas has created a layered, page-turning read about how far we will go to hold on to power and what we will do to avenge old wounds.

Joan Thomas is the author of five novels, most recently Five Wives, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Her first novel, Reading by Lightning, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean) and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was nominated for four other awards, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The bestseller Curiosity was named a Quill & Quire Book of the Year and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as well as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Opening Sky won the McNally Robinson Prize for Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. A recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Engel Findley Award, Joan Thomas lives in Winnipeg

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.

Johnnie Christmas, Megan Kearney, Cole Pauls: Prairie Comics Festival Hybrid Event

Saturday Sep 23 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Prairie Comics Festival is an annual, free to attend event held in Winnipeg that celebrates independent comic creators on the prairies, and across Canada. Join festival organizer (and comic creator) SM Beiko in conversation with 2023 festival guests, Johnnie Christmas, Megan Kearney, and Cole Pauls. A Q&A will follow.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Johnnie Christmas is a #1 New York Times Best Selling graphic novelist. His 2022 middle grade graphic novel debut Swim Team earned a spot on the National Book Awards longlist, a Coretta Scott King Award Illustrator Honor and a Harvey Awards nomination. Swim Team is currently a nominee for the Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award and for the Silver Birch Award. Johnnie is currently hard at work on two new middle-grade graphic novels for the HarperAlley imprint of HarperCollins. He was also the writer/co-creator of the Image Comics sci-fi series Tartarus and Crema, a haunted romance published by Comixology and his book Firebug earned a Joe Shuster Outstanding Cartoonist nomination. He also co-created the series Angel Catbird with celebrated writer Margaret Atwood and adapted William Gibson’s lost screenplay for Alien 3 into a critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. His credits also include co-creating the pre-apocalyptic thriller Sheltered. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, earning a BFA in Communication Design/Illustration.

Megan Kearney is a Toronto-based cartoonist with a background in animation. She works as a writer, illustrator and educator, and is a frequent guest at conventions across North America. Her clients include television studios such as Temple Hill Productions and Sinking Ship Entertainment. In addition to her award-winning original works, she has contributed to licensed properties with Scholastic, Disney, and many others. Her most recent title, Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms, released from Harpercollins, was a Kirkus Starred Review in 2022. Her next book, Corpse de Ballet, is expected to be published by First Second in 2024.

Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwäkãda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories, The Egghead & The Nipper. His most recent comic collection is Kwändǖr.

An Evening with Jordan Abel

Tuesday Sep 26 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join us as we welcome acclaimed author Jordan Abel back to Winnipeg to discuss his new book Empty Spaces (McClelland & Stewart). This event features a reading and a conversation hosted by Niigaan Sinclair followed by a book signing. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2023: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Jordan Abel’s extraordinary debut work of fiction grows out of his groundbreaking visual compositions in NISHGA, which integrated descriptions of the landscape from James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century settler classic The Last of the Mohicans into his father's traditional Nisga'a artwork. In Empty Spaces, Abel reinscribes those words on the page itself, subjecting them to bold rewritings and inviting us to come to a crucial understanding: that the land knows everything that can and will happen, even as our world lurches toward uncertainty. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing.

Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). NISHGA was the winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres award, and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines—including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, and The Fiddlehead—and his work has been anthologized widely, including The Broadview Introduction to Literature. Abel completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.

Host Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics in the Department of Indigenous Studies. Niigaan is also an award-winning writer, editor and activist who was recently named to the “Power List” by Maclean’s magazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada. In 2018, he won Canadian columnist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for his bi-weekly columns in The Winnipeg Free Press and is a featured member of the Friday "Power Panel" on CBC's Power & Politics. A former secondary school teacher, he won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Jason Pchajek Hybrid Book Launch

Wednesday Sep 27 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Jason Pchajek for the launch of Bounty (Ravenstone). This event features a reading and a discussion of the book followed by a book signing. Hosted by GMB Chomichuk.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

The year is 2120, and Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within the sublevels of Winnipeg, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: defend the ecological infrastructure of a city holding back climate collapse. But when a series of bounties go wrong, Nikos finds himself on the trail of a troubling new player among Winnipeg’s anti-establishment. Bound to a sense of duty to the city that made him, Nikos must risk it all to unearth an insidious enemy bent on destroying everything he’s fought so hard to protect.

Jason Pchajek is a writer, journalist, radio host, and corporate researcher from Winnipeg. When not working on his next project, Jason spends his time reading, playing video games, and preparing for his next D&D session. Bounty is his debut novel.

GMB Chomichuk is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in role-playing games, film, television and theatre, comics, graphic novels and books. He is the host of Super Pulp Science, a podcast about how genre gets made. His work in words and pictures ranges from the heartwarming to the bloodcurdling. Look for his gripping alternate future action packed page turners The Automatic Age and The Backbone of Night and watch the shadows for his sword and sorcery tales of the Once Lands in the upcoming new collection Shared World. You can find all his books and graphic novels at gmbchomichuk.ca.

David Martin Launching Kink Bands (In Person + Streaming)

Thursday Sep 28 2023 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon

Join David Martin for the launch of his latest poetry collection,  Kink Bands (NeWest Press), with special guest, Sheri Benning. This event is co-presented by NeWest Press.

The event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove, and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will remain available for viewing thereafter.  Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

In his second poetry collection, David Martin digs deep into an examination of the world through the lens of geology. With lyrically concrete poems expanding and retracting, this collection finds sonic and conceptual energy from the perspective of deep-time and the geological forces that have shaped and continue to shape the Earth. Enacting seismic shifts, catastrophes, and erosions throughout the natural and cultural worlds, Martin’s poetic practice pushes forward and finds itself interacting with the contemporary environmental changes and the structure of the Anthropocene that affect how we live in the twenty-first century.

David Martin works as a literacy instructor in Calgary and as an organizer for the Single Onion Poetry Series. His first collection, Tar Swan (NeWest Press, 2018), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize. David’s work has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for prizes from FreeFall, Vallum, and PRISM international. As well, his poems have appeared in numerous journals across Canada.

Sheri Benning’s fourth collection of poetry, Field Requiem, was published by Carcanet Press in 2021. Poems from Field Requiem appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry 2023, The Paris Review, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other places. Field Requiem was a finalist for The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her previous poetry collections include The Season’s Vagrant Light: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet Press), Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press). She teaches at the University of Saskatchewan.

Storefront Manitoba Book Launch

Thursday Sep 28 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Storefront Manitoba as they celebrate the launch of their latest publication, David Penner Architect - a collection of works by and dedications to the organization’s late founder. 

The launch of this publication will include a panel discussion with its contributors – more information to come.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

What started as an act of remembrance, has been sustained by a deep respect for the work of David Penner Architect, proclaimed “best architect in Winnipeg” in the Winnipeg Free Press three days after his passing in 2020. Between these covers there are many illustrations to this point, from the poetic expression of the rainwater collection at the Manitoba Electrical Museum to the transparent, translucent, and transcendent qualities of the Penner Cottage. Our purpose in this book is to present the architect and his body of work clearly and effectively using compelling photography and insightful commentary from friends, family, and colleagues. To that end, the work is organized into three roughly chronological periods: Penner Postmodern; Rational Aughts; and Apotheosis. In this way, we attempt an honest portrait of the architect.

Beatrice Mosionier Hybrid Book Launch

Friday Sep 29 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Beatrice Mosionier as she launches the 40th anniversary edition of her groundbreaking classic, In Search of April Raintree (HighWater Press) featuring a conversation hosted by bestselling author katherena vermette, author of this edition's foreword. A book signing will follow. Co-presented by The Winnipeg International Writers' Festival as part of THIN AIR 2023.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Born in St. Boniface, Beatrice Mosionier is a Métis writer best known for her novel In Search of April Raintree, first published in 1983. A school edition, April Raintree, followed in 1984. The youngest of four children, Beatrice was three years old when the Children’s Aid Society of Winnipeg took her from her family. Losing both of her sisters to suicide—Vivian in 1964 and Katherine in 1980—compelled Beatrice to use her experiences growing up in foster homes to write In Search of April Raintree. Since then, it has become a beloved classic, read by generations of Canadians. Most recently, she wrote the foreword for Overcome: Stories of Women Who Grew Up in the Child Welfare System by Anne Mahon. She has written several other books, including a play and a short film, and she is the former publisher of Pemmican Publications. She now lives in Enderby, British Columbia.

katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2013, her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Since then, her work has garnered awards and critical accolades across genres. Her novels The Break and The Strangers were both national best sellers and won multiple literary awards. Her third novel, The Circle, will be published in early September. She is the author of numerous other bestselling titles, including the A Girl Called Echo series and the Seven Teachings Stories series. 

Dr. Gary Hoium Launching Don't They Kick When You Do That Vol. 2 (In Person + Streaming)

Friday Sep 29 2023 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon

Join Dr. Gary Hoium for the Saskatoon launch of his latest book, Don't They Kick When You Do That? More Stories of a Prairie Veterinarian (DriverWorks Ink).

The event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove, and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will remain available for viewing thereafter.  Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.


Don’t They Kick When You Do That? More Stories of a Prairie Veterinarian
 builds on the success of Dr. Gary Hoium’s first book, sharing more amusing anecdotes about the animals and humans he encountered over his 40 years as a veterinarian in a mixed-animal practice in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Using a James Herriot-style of humorous storytelling, Dr. Hoium explains, for example, why it is important to ask questions before buying a “used” rabbit, how a dog’s day is determined by smelly pants, and what a vet has to do when he runs out of dry clothes during a Prairie springtime snowstorm.

Gary Hoium was born and raised in the small community of Midale, midway between Weyburn and Estevan along Highway 39. He pursued a career in hockey, but turned to mixed-animal veterinary practice when a future as a professional hockey player didn’t turn out. He purchased a veterinary clinic in Weyburn in 1989, and worked at that clinic until retirement in 2021. He resides in Weyburn with his wife, Shelley, and enjoys spending time with their two adult children and spouses, and their five grandchildren.

Niizhotay Stories: An Evening with Darrel J. McLeod

Saturday Sep 30 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

On this third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we once again honour treasured Elder and tireless community-builder Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine with Niizhotay Stories, an annual event which calls on us all to forge a healing path in the spirit of “two hearts." For this year's installment, we welcome Governor General's Award-winning Cree author Darrel J. McLeod (author of Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age and Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity) to Winnipeg to discuss his debut novel, A Season in Chezgh'un (Douglas & McIntyre). Featuring a conversation hosted by Dr. Jillian Horton. Co-presented by The Winnipeg International Writers' Festival as part of THIN AIR 2023.

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.The venue is accessible.

A Season in Chezgh'un is a subversive novel, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. It tells the story of James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta, who has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano.

The untimely death of James’s mother propels him into a quest to reconnect with his roots. He secures a job as a principal in a remote northern Dakelh community but his encounters with poverty, cultural disruption and abuse conjure ghosts from his past that drive him toward self-destruction. During the single year he spends in northern BC, James takes solace in the richness of the Dakelh culture—the indomitable spirit of the people, and the splendour of nature—all the while fighting to keep his dark side from destroying his life.

Darrel J. McLeod is Cree from Treaty-8 territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing, he worked as an educator, chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He currently lives in Sooke, BC, and divides his time between writing and singing in a jazz band.

Host Jillian Horton, M.D., is an award-winning medical educator, writer, musician and podcaster. She completed a residency and a fellowship in internal medicine at the University of Toronto and is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba, where she has held a number of senior leadership roles. For eighteen years, she has cared for thousands of patients in an inner-city hospital. During that time, she had three sons and mentored hundreds of students. As a teacher of mindfulness, she is sought after by doctors at all stages of their careers. Horton completed a master’s in English at the University of Western Ontario before beginning her journey into the heart of medicine. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto StarMacleans, and numerous American media outlets by syndication. Her first book, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing is a national bestseller.

What Draws Us Near Hybrid Launch

Tuesday Oct 03 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube, Winnipeg

Join us for the Winnipeg launch of What Draws Us Near?, a new horror anthology from Little Ghosts Books co-edited by Keith Cadieux and Adam Petrash. This evening will feature readings and a conversation with the editors alongside contributors Joanna Graham and Susie Moloney. A book signing featuring additional contributors will follow.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Why do we want what we should not have? Or worse yet, why are we captivated by what we know to be dangerous? Is it a self-destructive impulse that comes from inside of us? Or does something darker from outside pull us in? From the images contained on a mysterious videotape, or the figures depicted in a medieval mural, to a conversation that might have been, or the last words a benefactor wants to hear on their deathbed. Each one of these stories explores what draws us near. You should stop reading, but you know you won’t.

Keith Cadieux is a Winnipeg writer and editor. Most recently, he is the co-editor of the anthology What Draws Us Near. A short story collection is on the way in 2024.

Joanna Graham is a Winnipeg writer, reader and avid tea-drinker who has always been drawn to any piece of literature likely to make your skin crawl. Last spring, she was nominated for the John Hirsch Emerging Manitoba Writer Award, she holds a master’s degree in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia, and her fiction has appeared in anthologies, chapbooks and magazines. As a bookseller she manages the horror section, and she reads and writes whenever she can.

Susie Moloney is an award-winning writer of novels, television, and film. A proud Elmwood girl who made good, she tends to write about the lesser blessed, and the literally and figuratively haunted. Her new film ROMI is on the festival circuit, and she's writing a new collection of short fiction based on the summer her mom died. Currently she is the Writer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library so, "come up and see me some time, writer."

Adam Petrash is an award-nominated editor and writer from Winnipeg. He is the co-editor of the horror anthology What Draws Us Near, the editor of the short comics collection Dead Work, and is the co-editor of the speculative fiction anthologies Alternate Plains: Stories of Prairie Speculative Fiction and Parallel Prairies: Stories of Manitoba Speculative Fiction.

Patti Grayson Hybrid Book Launch

Wednesday Oct 04 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Patti Grayson for the launch of The Twistical Nature of Spoons (Turnstone Press) featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Sarah Ens. A book signing will follow.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.The venue is accessible.

Blisse has guarded the family secret for her entire childhood. No one can know the origin of her unconventional birthday gifts. Her mother, Ina, has insisted that Blisse never tell a soul - believing it's the only way to keep her daughter safe from a dire fate. Together, mother and daughter must sift through their own versions of events to understand how the secret has led to the unravelling of their lives. Chock-full of masks and curses, art and magic, seduction and spoons, their stories are both fraught with misdirection and awash in whimsy. Can their revelations negate a tragic prediction? Or is the dissolution of love and family inevitable?

Patti Grayson is the author of two award-nominated novels and one award-nominated short fiction collection. Her debut novel, Autumn, One Spring, was translated into German and was a popular book club selection. She lives and writes from the prairies. The Twistical Nature of Spoons will be her fourth book.

Host Sarah Ens is a writer and editor based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications throughout North America. Sarah holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan. Her debut collection of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky was shortlisted for the 2021 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the 2022 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Flyway, her second book of poetry, was shortlisted for the 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and is shortlisted for a 2023 Margaret McWilliams Award.

Garry Thomas Morse Launching Tulpa Mea Culpa (In Person + Streaming)

Wednesday Oct 04 2023 7:00 pm - Travel Alcove & YouTube, Saskatoon

Join Garry Thomas Morse for the Saskatoon launch of his latest novel, Tulpa Mea Culpa (At Bay Press), with special guest, Callum Wilson.

The event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove, and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will remain available for viewing thereafter.  Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

About Tulpa Mea Culpa:

When Gellhorn, a notable poet, begins a university residency in a “dynamic metropolis,” he learns of the existence of Aaron Schnell, his physical pseudo-twin, and an actor and film “double.”

The Chair shares fragments from the oeuvre of a recently deceased author who contrived the tale of the pseudo-twins. His scholarship leads him to a prairie town where he meets a young woman doing her creative thesis on the double in literature.

A police clerk in a different prairie city receives information about someone from her weekday commute. Non-routine surveillance draws her deeper into a mystery of exponential proportions.

Garry Thomas Morse has published several collections of poetry, notably Discovery Passages, about the history of his Kwakwaka’wakw Indigenous ancestors, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. Prairie Harbour, a poetic epic set in Regina, was also shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award. Morse’s novels have gained critical attention for pushing the aesthetic envelope. He is the author of a speculative fiction series called The Chaos! Quincunx, and two of its three books have been nominated for the ReLit Award. He is also the author of two well-storied novels, Death in Vancouver and Yams Do Not Exist.

Callum Wilson is an MFA Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan where he is working on long-form weird fiction. He is the poetry editor for Quagmire Magazine, and also an editor/instructor for Wheat & Laurel Magazine.

An Evening with Kathryn Mannix

Thursday Oct 05 2023 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join us for an evening with bestselling author, palliative care doctor, and trailblazer Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations (Harper & Row) and With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Little, Brown & Company). Featuring a conversation hosted by Harvey Max Chochinov, 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 simultaneous YouTube streamBefore arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store. The venue is accessible.

Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations is a "powerful, humane, and wise" (Julia Samuel) book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better - more honestly, more confidently and without regret. By bringing together stories with a lifetime's experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to.

In her previous book, the Sunday Times bestselling With the End in Mind, Mannix shared breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.

Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients’ own homes to deliver palliative care. In 1993 she started the UK’s (possibly the world’s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients.

Host Harvey Max Chochinov, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute, is widely considered one of the most influential and respected palliative care scholars and researchers in the world today. He has authored over three hundred publications, including several groundbreaking books in medicine. His achievements have been recognized nationally and internationally, including being named an Officer in the Order of Canada and an inductee in the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. His most recent book, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine (Oxford University Press), explores why being a patient is such a difficult pill to swallow and what healthcare providers can do to allow patients to retain their humanity, pride, and feelings of personhood. 

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