STARFest presents Annabel Lyon
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Consent is a smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes them forever. This startling, moving, thought-provoking novel explores the complexities of familial duty and how love can become entangled with guilt, resentment and regret.
Annabel Lyon will be in conversation with Conni Massing.
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 28, 2020
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Location:
- Online
Annabel Lyon is the author of the novel The Golden Mean, a bestseller in Canada that won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor-General’s Award, and has been translated into fourteen languages. She is also the author of a story collection, Oxygen, a book of novellas, The Best Thing for You, and two juvenile novels, All-Season Edie and Encore Edie.
Annabel Lyon lives in BC with her husband and two children, where she teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Conni Massing is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and the current Writer in Residence at St. Albert Public Library. She has worked in television and film, including as an editor and/or writer for numerous TV shows, including North of 60 and Mentors. Conni is also the author of a comic memoir, Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals. She has taught writing at the University of Alberta, Red Deer College and the National Theatre School of Canada.
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