Qwerty Reads Presents: Featured Readings from Mark Jarman and Ross Leckie

Come to the Wilser's Room in the Capital Complex on Thursday, February 26th to see two of The Fiddlehead's editors, Mark Anthony Jarman and Ross Leckie, perform their featured readings for this month's Qwerty Reads event.

The night will feature live music from the local Fredericton band 1947 Kitchen Party Disaster (Mark Jarman, Rob Ross, Martin Ainsley, and James Turner)

First Year Creative MA Students (Alex Carey, Katie Fewster-Yan, Reid Lodge, and Steven Suntres) will be provide brief 'mini-sets' between the featured readers.  

Also, Kris Bone will be hosting the evening, providing some laughs between all of the great readings.

Doors open at 7PM.  See everyone there!

Featured Reader Bios:

Ross Leckie once had the jobs of “bun boy” and “relish girl” in the restaurant of a fancy New Hampshire hotel.  His most recent book is The Critique of Pure Reason, which is like a lost puppy, as people either love it or feel sorry for it.  He also edits The Fiddlehead and is a member of the editorial board for Icehouse Poetry, and not to namedrop, but he once had a beer with Seamus Heaney.

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction.  He has won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories and short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays.

The UNB Reading Series Presents The Fiddlehead Poetry Editors

The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to hear a poetry reading by the Poetry Editors of The Fiddlehead: Phillip Crymble, Claire Kelly, and Ian LeTourneau. 

Phillip Crymble’s poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, The Malahat Review, CV2, The Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, Vallum, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere.  Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, he holds a MFA from the University of Michigan, and is currently pursuing a PhD in American Literature at the University of New Brunswick.  Not Even Laughter, his first full-length collection, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2015.

Claire Kelly writes and lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She has had poems published in The Malahat Review, Prism International, and has poems in upcoming issues of CV2 and Prairie Fire. Her first chapbook, Ur-Moth, was published by Frog Hollow Press in 2014. She is on the poetry board of Goose Lane Edition's Ice House Imprint.

Ian LeTourneau is the author of the chapbook Defining Range (Gaspereau, 2006) and the full-length collection Terminal Moraine (Thistledown, 2008). His poems and reviews have appeared in Arc, The Malahat Review, Event, Books in Canada, and many others.

Their poetry readings will be held Thursday, February 19th at 8:00pm in the East Gallery of Memorial Hall on the UNB Fredericton Campus. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend!

Upcoming Readings in Fredericton Area

There are all kinds of readings happening in Fredericton over the next week starting with tonight! A reminder that Craig Davidson reads at Memorial Hall tonight at 8pm. The event is free and all are welcome!

UNB Alumnus Craig Davidson, author of The Giller Prize short-listed Cataract City, published in 2013 by Doubleday. In his fourth literary novel Davidson presents a tourist town with an uncanny hold over those born within its borders, a place with more to it than first meets the eye. Beyond the gaudy storefronts and sidewalk vendors, past the hawkers of tourist T-shirts and souvenirs, are the townspeople who toil at The Bisk, the local cookie factory. And behind that crumbling façade are the truly desperate: those drawn to gritty alleyways on both sides of the US-Canada border, inhabitants of a shadow world that runs on money exchanged over dog races, bare-knuckle brawls, and night-time smuggling.

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Shane Neilson, frequent Fiddlehead contributor, reads at Odd Sundays at Molly's on Sunday, February 15. The reading starts at 2pm, is free, and open to the public.

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And this Thursday, February 12, The Cinnamon Café at 469 King Street is hosting a Spoken Word Poetry Night from 7 - 9pm. If you would like to read your own piece for this event, contact Cassidy or Brooke.

Craig Davidson Reads February 9

The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to hear a reading by UNB Alumnus Craig Davidson, author of The Giller Prize short-listed Cataract City, published in 2013 by Doubleday. In his fourth literary novel Davidson presents a tourist town with an uncanny hold over those born within its borders, a place with more to it than first meets the eye. Beyond the gaudy storefronts and sidewalk vendors, past the hawkers of tourist T-shirts and souvenirs, are the townspeople who toil at The Bisk, the local cookie factory. And behind that crumbling façade are the truly desperate: those drawn to gritty alleyways on both sides of the US-Canada border, inhabitants of a shadow world that runs on money exchanged over dog races, bare-knuckle brawls, and night-time smuggling.

Davidson is the author of Rust and Bone, which was a finalist for the 2006 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was made into a Golden Globe-nominated feature film of the same name. His other literary works include The Fighter and Sarah Court. His articles and journalism have been published in the National Post, Esquire, GQ, The Walrus, and The Washington Post, among other places.

Davidson has also published under the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. Under the name Cutter he is the acclaimed author of The Troop (2014), about which Stephen King raved it “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down . . . old-school horror at its best.” Cutter’s latest novel The Deep has just been published by Simon & Schuster; it features a plague that threatens humanity on a global scale.

His reading will be held Monday, February 9th at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall on the UNB Fredericton Campus. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.