Cat Sass Reading Series Presents:

Jane Bow, Ruth Clarke, Hal Niedzviecki

Saturday, May 24, 2014: 4-6 pm

Cat Sass Coffeehouse

4255 Hwy 7, Norwood: (705) 639-5494

Jane Bow grew up in Canada, the United States, Spain, England, the Czech Republic and Cuba. Stints at the French Lycee in Madrid and a British boarding school, with teenaged holidays spent behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War, set up a lifetime of creative exploration through words. She now lives with her husband in Peterborough. Her first novel, Dead And Living, was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award, and selected for a Carleton University course in 2002. The Oak Island Affair, her second novel, was a 2008 U.S. Next Generation Indie Book award finalist. For more information about Cally’s Way, published in March, 2014, please visit www.janebow.com.

Ruth Clarke is author of five non-fiction books: Before the Silence fictionalizes the indigenous migration from the historical Methodist mission at Grape Island, Bay of Quinte to Alderville FN. What We Hold Dear, also narrated by fictional characters, collects Alderville lore and photographs. To Know This Place, a field guide (second revised edition), locates flora and fauna in Alderville’s Black Oak Savanna, with Clarke’s partner artist/wildlife biologist Rick Beaver. Buffers, Boundaries & Barricades: County Fences is a coffee table book of photographs and musings. Her short stories, memoirs and journalism have been published in anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers.

Hal Niedzviecki is the author of eight books including the collection of short stories Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened (City Lights, April 2011) and the nonfiction book The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights, 2009). The Peep Diaries was made into a television documentary entitled Peep Culture produced for the CBC. He is the current fiction editor and the founder/publisher of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. Hal’s writing has appeared across the world in publications including the New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, the Utne Reader, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, Geist, and This Magazine.  More info: http://www.alongcametomorrow

We acknowledge the support of the The Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.