***Eden Robinson and Fred Booker will read October 16 at UBC***

Eden Robinson is the author of Traplines (Vintage Canada 1998), Monkey Beach (Knoph Canada 2000) and, most recently, Blood Sports (McClelland & Stewart2006). Traplines was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. Monkey Beach was nominated for both the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. She currently lives and works in KitamaatVillage, a small reserve on the central coast of British Columbia.

Fred Booker has been writing in Canada since 1966. His first book, a collection of short stories titled Adventures in Debt Collection, was published September 2006 by Commodore Books in Vancouver. Stories from the collection have appearedin Event, Windsor Review, Whetstone and West Coast Line and have been read onPeter Norman's show HEARSAY. He lives and writes in Burnaby.

PLACE: Thea's Lounge, Thea Koerner House Graduate Center, 6371 Crescent Road, UBC
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408

WHEN:October 16, 2007
Reading 7:30
Cash bar 7:00