Way Back When

Calgary Distinguished Writers Program 2014-15 Distinguished Visiting Writer Shyam Selvadurai will read embarrassing writing penned in his teens alongside Writer-in-Residence Ian Williams, Aritha van Herk, and Larissa Lai in support of filling Station magazine. Last year’s Way Back When served as a fundraiser to help filling Station begin paying their contributors, a permanent policy the magazine has now enacted. This year funds raised will go toward a website overhaul. Shyam Selvadurai’s CDWP residency runs November 24-December 1, 2014, and includes a number of public events. Admission to this event is pay what you may. This event will be held at Loft 112 (112-535 8 Ave SE).

Location:

Loft 112 (112-535 8 Ave SE)

Speaker:

Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Funny Boy, his first novel, won the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award in the US. He is the author of Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, and the editor of an anthology, Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. His books have been published in the US, the UK, India, Canada, and Sri Lanka, and published in translation in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, and Israel. His latest novel is The Hungry Ghosts.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/way-back-when