Award-winning Author of A Recipe for Bees
Live via ZOOM / A video of the presentation will be available to watch after this event on BPL's YouTube Channel.
Widely acclaimed Canadian author, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, joins us in conversation about living a writer's life, what inspires her storytelling, and her experience mentoring others to discover and grow their writing talent.
Gail's first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online. She lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia and, until recently, spent her summers on Manitoulin Island in Ontario. This event is being held in partnership with A Different Drummer Books & Harper Collins Canada.
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