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COMPLETE ARCHIVAL LISTING OF SAINT MARY’S READING SERIES EVENTS 

(2 - 2nd reading; 3 - 3rd reading)

  

Before 1990-91 academic year

Sandra Birdsell

George Elliott Clarke (Writer in Residence, 1990)

Timothy Findley

Sylvia Fraser

Mavis Gallant

Wayne Johnston

Susan Kerslake (Writer in Residence, 1989)

Veronica Ross (Writer in Residence, 1987)

Harry Thurston (Writer in Residence, 1988)

 

Readings preceding official creation of “Series”

1990-91

Mary Dalton

Steven Heighton

Bill Schermbrucker (Writer in Residence)
 

1991-92

Laurence Hutchman

Roo Borson

Jane Urquhart

Laura Lush

Ann Copeland (Writer in Residence)

Nancy Bauer

Richard Harrison
 

1992-93

Steven Heighton2 (Writer in Residence)

Nino Ricci

Tom Pow (Scotland-Canada Exchange Writer)

Don McKay
 

1993-94

Audrey Thomas

Anne Michaels

David Adams Richards

Joseph Sherman

Robyn Sarah

   

THE SUN ROOM READING SERIES

1994-95

Ian Colford & Nancy Minard

Elisabeth Harvor

John Metcalf

Eric Trethewey

Joan Clark (Writer in Residence)
 

1995-96

Mark Abley

Liane Heller (launch of her poetry collection Along the Sea Wall)

Jan Zwicky

Tim Lilburn (Writer in Residence)

Richard Lemm & Lesley-Anne Bourne

Rhea Tregebov
 

1996-97

Bruce Rice

Bernice Morgan
 

1997-98

Peter Sanger

Gail Scott

Marilyn Bowering (Writer in Residence)

Matt Cohen

Ross Leckie & David Manicom

 

THE GALLERY READING SERIES

1998-99

John Terpstra

Elizabeth Hay

Janice Kulyk Keefer

John Steffler (Writer in Residence)

A. F. Moritz

Heather Spears
 

1999-2000

Lynn Coady

John Donlan

Barbara Klar

Tim Bowling

Bryden MacDonald (Writer in Residence)

Don Domanski

Lesley-Anne Bourne2

Eric Ormsby
 

2000-01

Jeffery Donaldson & Thomas O’Grady

Matt Robinson (launch of his poetry collection A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking)

Catherine Bush

Carmelita McGrath

Michael Winter (Writer in Residence)

Dennis Lee
 

2001-02

Bruce Taylor

Sue Sinclair

Austin Clarke

Roo Borson2 (Writer in Residence)

M. Travis Lane

Mark Anthony Jarman

Laurence Hutchman2
 

2002-03

Anne Carson

Tim Lilburn2 & Adam Dickinson

Anne Compton

Fred Stenson

Richard Cumyn (Writer in Residence)

Robert Bringhurst
 

2003-04

Brent MacLaine & Joseph Sherman2

Gregory Cook & Yvonne Trainer

Richard Sanger & Ricardo Sternberg

Pamela Donoghue

Donna Morrissey

Marilyn Dumont (Writer in Residence)
 

2004-05

Barry Dempster

Greg Hollingshead

Mary Dalton2

Sharon McCartney

Michael Redhill (Writer in Residence)

Erin Moure & Triny Finlay
 

2005-06

Don McKay2 & Jan Zwicky2 & Ross Leckie2

Christy Ann Conlin

Patrick Kavanagh

Lynn Davies & Eric Miller

David Manicom2 & David O’Meara & (from Australia) Andrew Sant
 

2006-07

Robin McGrath & Matt Robinson2

Adam Dickinson2

Aislinn Hunter

Patrick Warner

Tammy Armstrong & Phil Hall & David Seymour & Karen Solie

Eric Trethewey2 (Writer in Residence)

Peter Behrens
 

2007-08

Don Domanski2 (launch of his poetry collections All Our Wonder Unavenged and Earthly

Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski)

Elizabeth Philips

Bernice Morgan2

John Reibetantz

Allan Cumyn

Lisa Moore (stormbound consulting writer-in-residence via e-mail – public reading

cancelled)
 

2008-09

Guy Gavriel Kay

David Hickey & Jeffery Donaldson2

D. Y. Bechard

Randy Maggs & Barbara Klar2

Mary Novik

Ian Colford2

Patricia Young & Terence Young & Wayne Clifford

Noah Richler

Stan Dragland (Writer in Residence)
 

2009-10

John Donlan2 & Sue Sinclair2

Colin McAdam

Bonnie Burnard

Fred Stenson2

Steven Galloway & Ryan Turner

Various poets and other readers launching The Essential James Reaney

Robyn Sarah2 (Writer in Residence) & Wanda Campbell

Anne Compton2 & James Langer

 

THE ATRIUM READING SERIES 

2010-11

Richard Lemm2 & David Zieroth

Vanessa Moeller & Matt Robinson3

Julia McCarthy (launch of her poetry collection Return from Erebus) & Sharon McCartney2

Joan Thomas

John Barton & Chris Hutchinson

John Steffler2 & George Sipos

Richard Cumyn2 & R. W. Gray

Michael Crummey (Writer in Residence)

Annabel Lyon

 

THE SAINT MARY’S READING SERIES 

2011-12

Wayne Johnston2

Antanas Sileika

Alex Pierce (launch of her poetry collection Vox Humana) & Margo Wheaton

Steven Heighton2

Warren Heiti & Heather Jessup (launch of his poetry collection Hydrologos and her novel

The Lightning Field)

Holly Luhning

Sue Goyette

Nick Thran & Basma Kavanagh

Don McKay3 (Writer in Residence) & Jacob McArthur Mooney
 

2012-13

Maureen Hynes & Ruth Roach Pierson

Jan Zwicky3 & M. Travis Lane2

Vincent Lam

Ian Colford2

Stephanie Bolster & Susan Gillis

Madeleine Thien

Carole Langille

Clark Blaise (Writer in Residence)

Michael Pacey & Clea Roberts
 

2013-14

Julie Bruck & Susan Glickman

Lynn Davies & Carmelita McGrath2

Thomas King

Danny Jacobs & Jessica Moore

Miranda Hill

Catherine Bush2,

Alice Burdick & Rachel Lebowitz

Bill Gaston & Michael Christie

Don Gayton

Diane Schoemperlen (Writer in Residence)

Rawi Hage
 

2014-15

James Arthur & Chantelle Rideout

Don McKay4 & Stevie Howell

Binnie Brennan (launch of her novel Like Any Other Monday)

Deanna Young & Kerry-Lee Powell

Richard Wagamese

Michael Crummey2

Kathleen Winter

Alistair MacLeod Tribute (readings by Brian Bartlett, Chris Benjamin, Carol Bruneau,

Alice Burdick, Silver Donald Cameron, Ian Colford, Valerie Compton, Sheree Fitch, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Cory Lavender, Linda Little, Leo McKay, and Marjorie Simmons), Craig Davidson (also a.k.a. Nick Cutter)

John Terpstra2 (Writer in Residence) & Mark Silverberg

Anne Compton3 & Ross Leckie3
 

2015-16

Marina Endicott & Carol Bruneau

Peter Norman & Daniel Scott Tysdal & Ali Blythe

Joan Clark2

Allan Cooper & Harry Thurston

Mark Anthony Jarman2

K. D. Miller

Mark Abley2 (Writer in Residence)

Sean Michaels

 

2016-17

Lisa Moore

Celebration of new Nova Scotia Poetry Collections: Deirdre Dwyer, Alyda Faber, Nanci Lee, Genevieve Lehr, Matt Robinson, Margo Wheaton 

André Alexis

Eden Robinson (Writer in Residence)

Meags Fitzgerald


2017-18

Steven Heighton 

Kerry-Lee Powell

2018-19

Annick MacAskill, Chris Bailey, and Steve McOrmond

Rachel Lebowitz and A.F. Moritz

John Metcalf

Doug Gibson

Anakana Schofield

 

 

 

 

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