Readings by Contemporary Canadian Writers:  Judy LeBlanc and Cornelia Hoogland

7:00 p.m., September 25, Administration-Humanities Building, Room 348 (AH 348), University of Regina

JUDY LEBLANC’s short stories have been published in Filling Station (2015), the Malahat Review (2013), Prism (2013), Antigonish Review (2012) and Grain (2009). In 2017, she was longlisted for the Prism Short Fiction contest, and in 2015, she won the Islands Fiction contest. In 2012, she won the Antigonish Review’s Sheldon Currie Fiction contest and was longlisted for the CBC short story prize. She has written reviews for The Coastal Spectator and the Malahat Review. Oolichan Press published a collection of short stories titled The Promise of Water in October, 2017. She teaches Creative Writing at North Island College and she is the founder and former artistic director of the Fat Oyster Reading Series.

CORNELIA HOOGLAND’s “Trailer Park Elegy,” (Harbour, 2017), a book-length long poem, was short-listed for the national League of Canadian Poets’ 2018 Raymond Souster Award. “Woods Wolf Girl” (Wolsak and Wynn), was short listed for the Relit 2011 National Poetry Award. Two recent short listed works for the CBC Literary Awards include “Sea Level” (Non Fiction) and “Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway” for the 2017 CBC Poetry Awards. Cornelia lives and writes on Hornby Island, British Columbia, in the Salish Sea. www.corneliahoogland.com

This event is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, St. Peter’s College, the University of Regina English Department and the Humanities Research Institute.  All interested persons are welcome to attend.  Complimentary parking has been arranged at the University of Regina in Lot 14 at the meters.