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Join award-winning author Mark Anthony Jarman to explore the introductions and conclusions of some of the modern age’s best known short stories. Learn different approaches to introduce settings and characters and how they evolve and change through each story’s arc. Saturday September 27
1-3 p.m.
Location: Community Arts Room - second floor (CSAC)
Duration: Two Hours
Cost: $50
About Mark:
Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of 19 Knives, My White Planet, New Orleans is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa and the travel book Ireland's Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca's list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon's list of best hockey fiction. He has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays, he won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories.
He has published in Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrig Nederland, and The Hong Kong Review. He is a graduate of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, and he is an editor with the new magazine Camel.
His collection of stories, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, was published in 2015, Czech Techno (Stories of Music) in 2020, and a travel book, Touch Anywhere to Begin, in 2022. Jarman edited Best Canadian Stories: 2023, and his most recent book, Burn Man, garnered rave reviews in Canada and the US and was a New York Times Editors Choice.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB, Canada, New Brunswick E3B 1M5
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