The Humber School for Writers will be hosting award-winning author Anne Michaels at the new Humber Cultural Hub on the Lakeshore Campus on the evening of July 10 for a very special reception and onstage conversation.
This event is part of the Summer Workshop in Creative Writing (for which Humber alumni, faculty, and staff are eligible for a discounted rate), happening from July 7 to 11.
Tickets are $20, $10 for students,and can be purchased online:
https://humber-emarketplace.paymytuition.com/anne-michaels-in-conversation-2
There will be a short, licensed reception (with a cash bar) before the event. The onstage interview will be recorded and later released as an episode of WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, the weekly author podcast hosted by Humber professor Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus magazine. (Previous guests include Waubgeshig Rice, Margaret MacMillan, Carol Off, Terry Fallis, Lawrence Hill, and Humber's own Alyssa York.)
Anne Michaels is an international award-winning novelist and poet emeritus of Toronto. Her books have been translated into more than forty-five languages. She is the winner of the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize and twice for the Giller Prize. She has also been twice longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was made into a feature film. Her most recent novel, Held, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Giller Prize. The Washington Post wrote that "Michaels publishes novels so deliberately that each one entrances readers of a new decade.”
For more information on the Summer Workshop in Creative Writing:
