Ian Rogers, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Derek Newman-Stille at Cat Sass on Friday, February 28

When: Friday, February 28, 2014 6:30-8:30

Where: Cat Sass Norwood, 4255 Hwy. 7, Norwood, On. K0L 2V0, 705 639 5494

Who: Ian Rogers, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Derek Newman-Stille

Ian Rogers is an award-winning Canadian writer. His debut collection, Every House Is Haunted, was the winner of the 2013 ReLit Award in the Short Fiction category, while his novelette, “The House on Ashley Avenue,” was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. His short fiction has been published in Cemetery Dance, Broken Pencil, Shadows & Tall Trees, and has been reprinted in several best-of-the-year anthologies. Ian is also the author of SuperNOIRtural Tales, a collection of stories featuring occult detective Felix Renn. Ian lives with his wife in Peterborough, Ontario. For more information, visit ianrogers.ca.

Ian Rogers

Ian Rogers

Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Silvia lives in beautiful British Columbia with her family and two cats. Her short stories have appeared in places such as Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Her first collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was released in 2013. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, will be released in 2015 by Solaris. She has edited several anthologies, including Dead North and Fungi. She blogs at http://silviamoreno-garcia.com/ and tweets @silviamg. Silvia is a winner of the CVC/Exile award for short fiction and has been short-listed for the Manchester Prize.

Derek Newman-Stille is a PhD student at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies at Trent University. Derek researches Canadian Urban Dark Fantasy and the use of the symbol of the monster for exploring the representation of disability issues. He has taught courses at Trent university on Werewolves as Symbols of the Human Experience and Witchcraft in the Greek and Roman World, and has presented papers on the Canadian fantastic at the Popular Culture Association of Canada, The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as at several other conferences on various aspects of his research. Derek’s writing can be found at http://speculatingcanada.wordpress.com/ and his art can be seen at: www.dereknewmanstille.ca.

 

 


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