DONATE

Evening Social

Readings by Sonja Boon, Kim Echlin, and Amanda Peters

Saturday, April 25
7pm to 9pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Cafe Lara, 3121 Kempt Road * please note location!
$0.00

Out of stock

Description

We’re partnering with the Writing and Publishing program at the University of King’s College to present an evening of readings by Sonja Boon, Kim Echlin, and Amanda Peters, as part of the Creative Writing and Storytelling Conference hosted by the Writing and Publishing MFA programs in creative nonfiction and fiction at the University of King’s College.

Speakers

  • Sonja Boon (she/her) is an award-winning writer, researcher, flutist, teacher, and stitcher of stories. The author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, including the memoir What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019), she is a mentor in the MFA (creative nonfiction) program at the University of King’s College, an adjunct professor of gender studies at Memorial University, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her work appears in ROOM, pinhole poetry, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review, and Geist, among others, and is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. For six years, Sonja was principal flutist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

  • Kim Echlin is a Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has lived and travelled around the world. The Disappeared was translated into 20 languages, won the Barnes and Noble prize and was short-listed for The Giller. Speak, Silence about woman and justice in the International Criminal Court won the City of Toronto Book award. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International. Author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN.

  • Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and Settler ancestry living and working in the Annapolis Valley. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers, won the Carnagie Medal of Excellence for Fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the Darthmouth Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Book Award. Her work has been translated into 25 different languages. She is also the author of a short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon and her second novel, The Birthing Tree was released in September 2026. She teaches at Acadia University in Wolfville and writes alongside a grumpy cat named Pook and a happy sheepdog named Holly.