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Dodge City: In Conversation

With Anna Quon, Patrick deWitt, and Laurie Brown

Sunday, November 1, 2026
4:00 pm
to 6:00 pm
Doors Open: 3:30 pm
The Carleton
$15.00

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Halifax Poet Laureate Anna Quon opens the 8th annual AfterWords with poetry. Then it’s Patrick deWitt in conversation with Laurie Brown. DeWitt’s new book is called Dodge City, and it is a witty and weird tale of an amphetamine-fueled roadtrip across the continental United States by a young man dodging the draft and bidding goodbye to the country of his birth—and his fraying family—along the way.

Speakers

  • Anna Quon is a Mad writer, workshop facilitator and sometime filmmaker living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) with her nonagenarian Dad and several ailing houseplants. Quon has worked and volunteered with the non-profit sector for most of her career. As a writer, she has traditionally published three novels and one slim volume of poems, has received several poetry commissions from the CBC Creators’ Network, and is currently HRM’s Poet Laureate until April 2027. Quon admits that self-publishing her own poetry zines and creating simply animated films of her poems has, though messy, sparked the most joy.  

  • Patrick deWitt is the author of six novels, including Dodge City. Born in British Columbia, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.

  • Laurie Brown has built a reputation as an accomplished interviewer, writer and seasoned broadcaster for TV (CityTV, CBC’s The National and CBC’s Newsworld), radio (CBCMusic’s The Signal) and for 7 years, as a podcaster with Pondercast, which featured Laurie’s original essays that straddled philosophy, culture, science and spirituality all with original music by Joshua Van Tassel. Intensely human and intimate, she built a loyal following for Pondercast through Patreon.