The Lorenzo Society is excited to kick off 2025 with an author event featuring Lisa Alward and Fawn Parker. They will be in conversation with Lorenzo Society coordinator Gemma Marr.
Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. | Oland Hall 104
Lisa’s award-winning stories have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, as well as several literary journals.
She will discuss her new collection Cocktail, which was nominated for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and which won both the national 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2024 Mrs. Dunsters’ Award for Fiction.
She lives with her husband, John, near the Wolastoq River in Fredericton.
Fawn is the author of the novels What We Both Know, longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Set-Point, and Dumb-Show, and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance, winner of the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize and the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award.
Her story “Feed Machine” was longlisted for the 2020 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, and her story “WunderHorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s After Realism.
Fawn is a Ph.D. student at the University of New Brunswick, who divides her time between Toronto and Fredericton. She will discuss her most recent novel Hi, It’s Me, which was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2024.
Books will be available for purchase from the UNB Saint John Campus Store and light refreshments will be provided.
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