ANNE STONE AND DAVID CHARIANDY

Please join us! Play Chthonics Reading Series
will host writers Anne Stone and David Chariandy.

Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Cash bar.

Cecil Green Park Coach House
Green College
6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC

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ANNE STONE has taught creative writing at Capilano College and at Concordia University, and is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is guest editor of the current special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her latest novel, Delible (Insomniac Press 2007), tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. This novel offers a glimpse into a sustained experience of uncertainty and, in so doing, explores how our identities exist in those traces we leave behind. She has published two previous novels: jacks (DC Books 1998) and Hush (Insomniac Press 1999).

More information about her work can be found at http://annestone.net/ and in an interview at: http://www.canadiancontent.ca/interviews/061400stone.html.

DAVID CHARIANDY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of a novel entitled Soucouyant (Arsenal Pulp Press 2007), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction, as well as several essays on Black Canadian, Anglo Caribbean, and diasporic literatures and cultures. He has co-edited two special issues of scholarly journals (The Canadian Association of American Studies, and Essays on Canadian Writing), and he is a co-founder of Commodore Books, the first and only black literary press in western Canada.

More information about his work can be found online at CBC Words at Large (http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2007/11/david_chariandy.html) and the Tyee (http://thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/17/Soucoyant/) .


PLAY CHTHONICS reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC, and is in the midst of a six-reading 2007-8 season.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, Green College, the UBC Department of English, and the Canada Council for the Arts.