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ReLit Awards Winner announced! – Lisa Foad’s The Night Is A Mouth wins the short fiction category!

From the ReLit Award’s longlist in which 5 of the 5 books submitted by Exile Editions were listed – Lisa Foad’s The Night Is A Mouth (short fiction), Zoe Whittall’s Precordial Thump (poetry), Lauren B. Davis’ An Unrehearsed Desire (short fiction), Robert Colman’s The Thin Line (poetry), and Edward Brown’s Playing Basra (short fiction) – one has gone on to win! We congratulate all five Exile writers!

See Lisa Foad at the Ottawa Writers Festival Sunday, October 25, for the award presentation. Lisa appears at three International Writers Festivals… see below!

Coming Soon!

Monday, October 26, 7-10:00pm. A unique paid-invitation-only event to launch a new Exile Reading Series: Exile’s Dinner with an Author or Artist, an intimate evening to be held in a private room at Toronto’s prestigious Turf Lounge. Our first night is cocktails and mingling from 7-7:45, followed by dinner at 8:00, and a reading with Marie-Claire Blais after desert: $100 per person – includes a 3-course prix-fixe dinner, conversation with the author, and a reading from her new Exile book, along with a free book of your choice, and a $10.00 bet chit to play the horses after dinner … this is a special new series, by pre-payment only, with reserved seating for 36 people at diners’ tables. The price of drinks is not included. To reserve a seat or table, please email: Dinner with Marie-Claire Blais

The Exile Interview Series. An all-new, first in the industry… as only Exile can! We start with a few, and will make available hundreds in the process… of the more than 1,000 writers and artists to have appeared in the pages of Exile Quarterly and Exile Editions, we’re providing them a forum to express their thoughts on writing, and all things publishing; and giving you an opportunity to be a part of the intimacy. View this 4.5 minute YouTube trailer…

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Our Autumn Events

September 27, Sunday, full day – Exile Editions and Exile: The Literary Quarterly have a booth at Toronto’s Word On the Street. Over 60 titles for sale, all at ONLY $10.00! (list prices $19.95 – $39.95). And, free Issues of Exile Quarterly to introduce what we do to the public. Plus: 3 authors at the booth to sign books, and speak with you!

September 29, Tuesday, 7:15 to 9:45pm – Book Launches at The Dora Keogh Irish Pub on The Danforth in Toronto (141 Danforth Ave, 1/2 block east of Broadview): Melissa Hardy’s new novel Broken Road, about the people who lived and loved and made their own personal sacrifices during the historic times of the Cherokee Nation’s journey along the “Trail of Tears.” Number Two in “The Exile Book of…” series, the Canadian Dog Stories anthology, edited by Richard Teleky, with readings by Leon Rooke, Janice Kulyk Keefer and Matt Shaw. We start the evening with short readings by Jennifer Duncan, Erin Robinsong, and Hugh Graham from Exile Quarterly 33.1.

• Buy Broken Road and/or Canadian Dog Stories from the publisher at Exile Editions

October 13 – 16 – Calgary-Banff WordFest

Zoe Whittall and her book Precordial Thump; she appears in five events:

• WordFeast Fundraising Dinner – October 13th, Tuesday, 6pm – The Fairmont Palliser Hotel • The Young, Bold and Restless – October 14th, Wednesday – University of Calgary, Husky Oil Great Hall • Girls, Gossip and Cocktails – October 16th, Friday, 5-6pm – The Auburn • Afternoon Delight – October 17th, Saturday, 2:30-3:30pm – Vertigo Theatre Centre, Studio • Poetry Cabaret – October 17th, Saturday, 9:30-11pm – The Banff Centre, Margaret Greenham Theatre

October 23 and 24, Friday and Saturday – Vancouver International Writers Festival

Lisa Foad reads from The Night Is A Mouth, her collection of short stories: Oct 23, 10-11:30am; Oct 24, 10-11:30am

Zoe Whittall reads from her book of poetry, Precordial Thump: Oct 23, 1-2:30pm

October 25 – The Ottawa International Writers Festival has invited Exile for three Main Events:

1) Sunday at 2:00, Exile’s esteemed Editor-in-chief, and internationally recognized writer Barry Callaghan, presents a Masterclass, discussing his new novel Beside Still Waters. Mr Callaghan will articulate on the art of writing and re-writing. Introduced by Kenneth J. Harvey.

2) Four Exile writers! A special 4:00pm Saturday afternoon event featuring our new anthology, The Exile Book of Canadian Dog Stories, edited by Richard Teleky. Reading their stories will be Janice Kulyk Keefer, Barry Callaghan, Kenneth J Harvey and Katherine Govier. An event for dog lovers and fiction lovers alike, surely not to be missed!

3) Lisa Foad makes her third Writers Festival appearance (coming from Vancouver, then Toronto) and takes the main stage for the evening’s Short Fiction Cabaret event at 8:30: Canada’s Cutting Edge – An evening of acclaimed stories from four of Canada’s most acclaimed practicioners featuring Amy Jones, Lisa Foad, Alexandra Leggat and M.A.C. Farrant

Special: At 10;30, the winner announcements for the ReLit Award… Short Fiction: Congratulations, Lisa!

October 25, 27, 30, 31 and November 2 – Toronto’s International Festival of Authors

Lisa Foad participates in the roundtable discussion “This Writing Life: Rewards and Challenges of Being a Writer” on Sunday, Oct. 25, 3:00pm at the Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West; she reads from The Night Is A Mouth on Friday, Oct. 30, 8:00pm at the Studio Theatre.

Meaghan Strimas reads from her poetry book, The Junkman’s Daughter, on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 8:00pm at the Brigantine Room, and on Saturday, Oct.31, 12:00pm at the Lakeside Terrace; she participates in the Young IfOA on Monday, Nov. 2, morning and afternoon, in Midland ON.

October 26, Monday – Three special events!

1) York University: At 9:30am, Marie-Claire Blais speaks to students for one hour.

2) At 1:00, Marie-Claire Blais, Leon Rooke, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Barry Callaghan and Matt Shaw, read their stories which appear in the newly released anthology Canadian Dog Stories, edited by Richard Teleky.

3) Marie-Claire Blais hosts a special paid-invitation-only event to launch a new Exile Reading Series: Exile’s Dinner with an Author or Artist, to be held in a private room at Toronto’s prestigious Turf Lounge: Our first night is an intimate evening with Marie-Claire. $100 per person (see our first “coming soon” listing).

October 27, Tuesday, 7:15 to 9:45pm – Book Launch at Dora Keogh: Anna’s World and The Manuscript of Pauline Archange, the two new Exile Classics Series releases by Marie-Claire Blais, and we present a new novella, The Wolf’s Mouth by young writer Martha Bátiz (translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Escobedo – the Spanish version won the Casa de Teatro Award; Dominican Republic).

And we wrap up with our final 2009 event:

Thursday November 5, The Exile book of Canadian Sports Stories launches at 7pm (readings start at 7:30); The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick Avenue (just south of Bloor Street). Readings by contributing writers and our Canadian Olympic athletes. $5 from every book sold tonight will be donated to the Canadian Athletes Now Fund. (List price $24.95 – evening special a flat $20.00). Presented from a stage, with bar and restaurant for patrons. A jazz band will go on at 9:30pm!

Summer Events you may have missed:

July 13, Monday, 7:00pm – The Scream Festival: This is your opportunity to hear the country’s best literary talent together on one stage! Lisa Foad, author of The Night Is A Mouth, appears with 12 other great young writers during this evening’s literary extravaganza. (Also worth noting is that on Oana Avasilichioaei – one of the 12 – translated a selection of poetry which appears in the recent Exile Editions multilingual poetry release 20 Canadian Poets Take On the World; for a review see Prairie Fire Review of Books at www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/uppal_ed_translation.html; 20 Canadians was edited by 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Priscila Uppal.)

July 25, Saturday evening – The Leacock Festival: Exile Ladies Night, featuring three women reading from their new Exile Editions books, and a fourth in special performance… Lisa Foad with her new collection of short stories The Night Is A Mouth begins the night, Zoe Whittall follows with a poetry selection from Precordial Thump, acclaimed actress Lili Francks performs Barry Callaghan’s “Crow Jane’s Blues” andGale Zoë Garnett brings this multi-talented, multi-generational gathering to a finale by reading from her novel Savage Adoration.

July 26, Sunday afternoon – The Leacock Festival: Exile editorial members Barry Callaghan and Priscila Uppal read from their new and highly praised novels, Beside Still Waters and To Whom It May Concern.

If you would like further info on these events, or any other publishing inquiries, please email us at EXILE

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