Fall Women Writers Series Literary Salon

Welcome to the Fall Women Writers Series Literary Salon! We are delighted to announce that four fantastic writers will be joining us on campus for a literary salon: we will be featuring readings by Sue Goyette, Anna Quon, Claire Horn, and Sue Murtagh, as well as original work by Asiah Sparks, 2023-2024 HRM Youth Poet Laureate.

• Sue Goyette: She lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published several books of poems and a novel. Her latest collections are Monoculture (Gaspereau Press, 2022), A Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of Sue Goyette, (edited by Bart Vautour, WLS Press, 2023) and Future Howl, forthcoming in spring 2025 (Gaspereau Press). Sue currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University.
• Anna Quon: She is the current Poet Laureate of the Halifax Regional Municipality. She is a Mad and mixed-race poet, novelist and emerging filmmaker. She facilitates writing workshops, particularly for the mental health community and is the author of three novels. She works across mediums, making paintings and short animated films to accompany her poetry and is an astute observer and translator of the spectrum of experiences of city life here.
• Claire Horn: She is a writer and researcher with a PhD in Law (University of London) and an MA in legal and feminist theory (New York University). She has researched and taught in the area of law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and technologies for six years. Her first book, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth, was longlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
• Sue Murtagh: She lives in Halifax. Her writing has appeared in The Nashwaak Review, Grain, carte blanche, the Humber Literary Review, and The New Quarterly. She won the Budge Wilson Short Story Prize in 2016. In 2020, she apprenticed with Alexander MacLeod through the WFNS Alistair MacLeod mentorship program. She then graduated with distinction in 2022 from the Humber School of Writers, working with Danila Botha.

The event will take place on Thu Nov 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the MacDonald Reading Room at the MSVU Library. Q & A will be moderated by Dea Toivonen, Outreach & Social Coordinator for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

MacDonald Reading Room, MSVU Library, 15 Lumpkin Road, Halifax, Canada