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FRIDAY @ 7: The award-winning author of "The Great Karoo."
Maggie SigginsFRIDAY @ 9: Prolific author of "Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother."
Joan ThomasSATURDAY @ 7: The Manitoban author of "Reading by Lightning."
Daria SalamonSATURDAY @ 9: Author of the popular new novel, "The Prairie Bridesmaid."
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Fred Stenson appears at 7 p.m.FRED STENSON is the author of The Trade, which was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writer’s Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. The Great Karoo is Stenson’s eighth book of fiction and fifteenth book overall. He has also written scripts for over 140 produced films and videos. He writes a regular humour column for Alberta Views Magazine. He was raised on a farm in the Alberta foothills north of Chief Mountain and lives in Cochrane, Alberta.
Maggie Siggins appears at 9 p.m.MAGGIE SIGGINS is an author and film producer who has worked as a reporter, columnist, magazine writer and news editor. She has written nine books. Her early work includes A Guide to Skiing in Eastern North American, How to Catch a Man with cartoonist Ben Wicks, Bassett, and Brian and the Boys: A Story of Gang Rape. In 1985 she wrote Canadian Tragedy, relating the events that lead to the murder of JoAnn Thatcher by her husband Colin.Another murder was the centre piece of Revenge of the Land published in 1991. Riel: A Life of Revolution was the best-selling biography of Canada's one great revolutionary. In Her Own Time told two tales: the fate of a grade 13 class, and a cultural history of women through the ages. Her lastest publication is Bitter Embrace: White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree. Her new book "Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother" has been released and is in stock (at Pennywise).
Joan Thomas appears at 7 p.m.JOAN THOMAS has been a regular book reviewer for the Globe and Mail for more than a decade. Her essays, stories, and articles have been published in numerous journals and magazines including Prairie Fire, Books in Canada, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She has won a National Magazine Award, co-edited Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium, and has served on the editorial boards of Turnstone Press and Prairie Fire Magazine. She lives in Winnipeg.
Daria Salamon appears at 9 p.m.DARIA SALAMON is a freelance writer whose work has been published by the Globe and Mail, the Winnipeg Free Press and Uptown Magazine. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction has been shortlisted for the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Emerging Writer Short Fiction Award, the Larry Turner Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and the Canadian Authors Association’s North of 55 Writing Contest. In 2005, she wrote a monthly humour column on wedding planning for the Winnipeg Free Press called “The Wedding Diaries.” She lives in Winnipeg.