Eden Robinson, photo by Red Works Photography.
The Spring Writers Literary Cabarets conclude with Chapter 3.
This final evening features another distinct group of writers-in-residence presenting original work across genres, marking the closing gathering of the Spring Writing Residency at Banff Centre.
The evening is hosted by Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson, Banff Centre alumna and returning faculty member. Her story collection Traplines won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and her novel Monkey Beach was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. She will guide the evening and close with a reading from her own work.
Settle in at CLVB ’33 for an evening of new writing and conversation.
Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with readings beginning at 7:00 p.m. Informal mingling continues until 9:30 p.m.
About Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The final book in the Trickster series, Return of the Trickster, was published 2021..