Join us for Coast Lines and Coffee on December 1, in conversation with Angela Antle (BA’91). We look forward to welcoming you to our latest event celebrating the Newfoundland and Labrador literary landscape.
The Memorial University Bookstore will be onsite with various Coast Lines titles for sale and our guests of honour will be happy to sign copies of their books following the panel discussion.
MARJORIE DOYLE (MA'87) has published four books of non-fiction. Her columns and essays have appeared across Canada in the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, Fiddlehead, Geist, Calgary Herald, Queen’s Quarterly, Antigonish Review.
Her broadcast career included hosting the national CBC radio show That Time of the Night. Marjorie has been awarded a National Magazine Award and (with her brother John W. Doyle) two CBC Radio Awards for Programming Excellence and a Golden Sheaf nomination for the documentary Regarding Our Father.
A former Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, she has read across Canada and was writer in residence at Haig Brown House on Vancouver Island.
WILLOW KEAN (BFA'99) is an actor and writer originally from Labrador West. She’s co-written several children’s plays that have toured provincially, and her five-woman comedy Supper Club premiered at the LSPU Hall in 2021. She’s beenshortlisted for the Cuffer Prize and longlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award, and she won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in 2018. Willow lives in St. John’s with her partner, the filmmaker Justin Simms, and their son, Jude. Eyes in Front When Running is her first published novel and is a book about the collision of fear and longing, how the thing you fear the most is often the one thing you need to set you straight.
Event Details
Date: Sunday, December 1, 2024
Location: Emera Innovation Exchange, Signal Hill Campus
Time: 11 am to 1 pm NL time; panel discussion runs from 11:30 to 12:30 pm and will be livestreamed
Ticket Price: $25 CAD (in person) + 15% HST + 4.5% processing fee. Ticket price includes coffee/tea, continental breakfast, panel discussion, book signing, and parking.
Please note our payment system can only take VISA or MASTERCARD. Unfortunately AMEX will not be accepted.
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