About this Event
Victoria University is proud to celebrate its alumni. Join us when our accomplished alumni-authors share their recent publications with the community.
About the authors...
Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd, and Michael Cera. He wrote and directed the feature film Dirty Singles which won for him the Irving Avrich Emerging Filmmaker Award at TIFF. Following the publication of his first novel, Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. His first story collection, Shimmer, was nominated for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent novel, The Education of Aubrey McKee, was long-listed for the Toronto Book Awards. His next novel, Silver Lake, the third in a multi-part series about Aubrey McKee, will be published next year by Biblioasis.
Lindsay Zier-Vogel is an author, grant writer, arts educator, and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and the author of Letters to Amelia, and The Fun Times Brigade, and her picture book, Dear Street was a Junior Library Guild pick, a Canadian Children’s Book Centre book of the year, and was nominated for a Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award (Canada), a Magnolia Book Award (Mississippi), and the Mountain Laurel Award (Pennsylvania). She leads creative writing workshops in schools and community settings.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
VC 102, 73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Canada
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