IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, PLEASE register, and a link will be sent to you via email. Keep the email, and when it's time for the event, PLEASE CLICK ON THE ZOOM LINK THAT WAS EMAILED TO YOU. Looking forward to seeing you!
Join us for an FBCW Author Connection reading, interview and Q&A with Katherine Fawcett about her fascinating new book of short fiction, The Swan Suit.
Fawcett’s wry humour and prodigious imagination make for an addictive mix. The weird becomes normal, and the normal, fascinating. In this collection, reimagined folktales appear alongside stories entirely new, serving to both defamiliarize us from the undeniably odd tales we continue to pass down generation after generation, and to lend a vague familiarity to the stories of Fawcett’s invention. In her hilariously matter-of-fact style, Fawcett subverts all expectations and her narrative skill makes this collection a must-read for any lover of short fiction.
Topics include: Magic, swans, frying pans, Elvis, mushrooms, sex, witches, daughters, magnets, cats, ovaries, candy, spiders, lies, soup, wolves, the devil, death, love and ice. Dress appropriately.
Fawcett was born in Montreal, raised in Calgary, and has lived in Japan, Canmore AB, Yellowknife NT and Pemberton BC. She now lives, writes, works and plays in Squamish, as a musician, a teacher, a dedicated yogi and outdoor enthusiast. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary and is currently part of the Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio community.
Host Jacqueline Larson Carmichael is the president of the Federation of British Columbia Writers. She is the author of Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front (Heritage House, November 2020), Tweets from the Trenches, and The FabJob Guide to Become a Party Planner. A longtime journalist and former publisher of the Westerly News, her work has been published in publications including The Dallas Morning News, The Edmonton Sun, Entrepreneur Magazine. She is a member of Simon Fraser University’s The Writers Studio community.
This free session from the Federation of British Columbia Writers is open to all. Register at bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers. You will receive an email with a link to click on when it's time for the session. Questions? Email fbcw.islands@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing you!
