Please save the evening of Saturday, April 14, for a gala celebration of Deborah Willis, as she closes out her 2012 author residency at the house. She will read from new short stories written while living at the house since January, and she will introduce some of the writers she met while living here, including Aaron Golbeck of Downtown Eastside Studio Society, with whom Debbie has been working Wednesday afternoons to encourage sex workers and former sex workers to write about their experiences.
When: Saturday, April 14, 7 to 10pm.
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House. 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: Admission by donation. Space is limited. To reserve a seat, please RSVP kogawahouse@yahoo.ca.
John Asfour, our 2009 writer-in-residence, will also attend. He’s in town from April 11 to 18 to launch V6A, a collection of stories and poems from the Thursdays Writing Collective at the Carnegie Centre. He and Elee Kraalji Gardiner and Arsenal Pulp Press will launch that book at the Waldorf Hotel on Thursday, April 12, at 7pm. Then John will read from his book of poems, Blindness, at Historic Joy Kogawa House on Tuesday, April 17. Blindness includes poems John wrote while living at the house. They have since been published by McGill-Queens University Press, and earlier this year, the book was selected for a design award by the Association of American University Presses.
Deborah Willis will also read as part of the Kranky Reading Series, Thursday, April 6, at 7pm, at the Kranky Cafe, 228 East 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1G5.
Historic Joy Kogawa House
1450 West 64th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V6P 2N4
Email: kogawahouse@yahoo.ca