Name: An Evening w/ Tyler Hellard (Author of the 2026 Canada Reads Selection Searching for Terry Punchout)
Start: 2026-03-19T18:00:00-03:00
End: 2026-03-19T19:30:00-03:00
Location: Picaroons Roundhouse

$An Evening w\/ Tyler Hellard (Author of the 2026 Canada Reads Selection Searching for Terry Punchout)$

Join author Tyler Hellard for a reading from the 2026 Canada Reads contender “Searching for Terry Punchout” and a discussion about the book with the author and its Fredericton–based publisher, Norm Nehmetallah. Westminster Bookmark will be selling books and the author will be signing them.
Come celebrate the only Atlantic-authored and -published book on this year’s Canada Reads debates!
ABOUT THE BOOK
A 2026 CBC Canada Reads Selection
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends, revisiting neglected relationships, and dealing with lingering feelings about his father and dead mother—and discovering that his friends and family are kinder and more complicated than he ever gave them credit for. Searching for Terry Punchout is a charming and funny tale of hockey, small-town Maritime life, and how, despite our best efforts, nothing can save us from becoming our parents.
Tyler Hellard grew up in Prince Edward Island, graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and now lives in Calgary with his wife and kids, where he writes commercial copy, technology criticism and essays. His non-fiction has appeared in THIS Magazine, The Walrus, and on CBC Radio. Before finally quitting hockey at 18, he was pretty bad at it.