A Special Launch as Exile Editions brings back into print
two of MORLEY CALLAGHAN’s uniquely engaging and inspiring novels.
Tonight’s event also featured Exile Quarterly authors KRISTI-LY GREEN and DAVID SOBELMAN.
Images from the Evening - a gathering of 62 for the readings.
Poet, Screen Writer and Producer David Sobelman / Fiction Writer and Artist Kristi-Ly Green
Author Nino Ricci / Poet and Fiction Writer Seán Virgo
Barry Callaghan and photographer Nigel Dickson
Writer and professor Bruce Meyer and Visual Artist Vince Mancuso
Seán Virgo signs books
Poet and Dramatist Daniel David Moses, Artist Gabriela Campos, Barry Callaghan, Broadcaster Katie Rekai, and Writer/Actress Zoë Garnett
Videographer and Avid Fly Fisherman Eric Weissman nipple-warming Publisher and Writer Antonio D’Alfonso
Entrepeneur and Arts Supporter George Yemec, with long-time partner Anita Rapp
Saxophonist Doug Richardson closes down the evening
A Time For Judas is a dramatic new version of the story of Christ’s trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. Philo of Crete–and this is his story, his manuscript–is devoted to honestly recording the events he saw during his time as secretary to Pontius Pilate. As Pilate’s scribe, he was present at the trial of "the Galilean," he knew Judas Iscariot, he mingled with the city prostitutes and desert bandits. It is through Judas that he learns what actually happened to Christ’s body. The Vow–originally titled Luke Baldwin’s Vow–is a story in which a practical Uncle sees his old and lame dog as no longer useful, and he concludes the dog should be destroyed. Luke, a twelve-year-old boy who has come to live with his uncle and aunt after his father died of a heart attack, sees much to admire in his uncle, and he wants his uncle to like him and approve of him. But Luke is sometimes a dreamy and stubborn boy, and the two often do not see eye to eye, and in this case Luke fights to save the dog. In his struggle he comes to a better understanding, not only of Uncle Henry, but of the expedient world of adults. This is a simple straightforward story that every young person understands. Nino Ricci and Seán Virgo read from the books 
Introductions by Nino Ricci and Jane Urquhart
This novel is audacious and intriguing as a tale, especially in light of the newly revealed Gnostic Gospels of Judas. And as Margaret Atwood says of the book: This is a radical telling of the accepted story, but it is entirely convincing.
David Sobelman–whose poetry appeared in issue 30.1–is a translator, screenwriter, story editor, television director and producer. He directed The McLuhan Probes, was the writer/director of the Space Symphony and The Leonardo Project; Making the Invisible Visible, and was the writer/producer of the highly acclaimed McLuhan’s Wake. These are his first published poems, from After the End, which will appear with Guernica Editions later in the year.
Kristi-Ly Green–whose short fiction and accompanying drawings appeared in issue 29.2– has published in several literary journals and is the author of a book of short stories, Nits. A story from that book appeared in ¿Dónde es aqui?, an anthology of short fiction from Canada, published in translation in Mexico, and another story appeared in Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada’s Best New Women Writers.