“Meet the authors. Get your books signed. Chat with the creators behind the stories that reflect life in the North.”
NorthWords NWT’s Northern Book Fair is returning to the Yellowknife Visitor Centre on Saturday, November 8. (We first published this preview in late October, which we’ve now updated.)
From 10am to 2pm, readers will be able to find their “next great northern read,” attend readings and connect with local writers.
This year’s book fair will feature the launch of Umingmak and Fox: Why is it Dark? with a reading by author Jamesie Fournier at 11am, and The Last Tree with a reading by Erika Nyyssonen at 1pm.
Dana Harris is also set to read her new book, Maww! Maww! at 11am ahead of the book’s official November 15 launch at Yellowknife Books.
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A late addition is Hélèna Katz’s book Dispatches from Canada’s North.
Katz is described by organizers as “a woman with a severe visual impairment who cannot see clearly for more than a few feet, but has embraced life as though someone left the gate open.”
“Dispatches from Canada’s North is a memoir featuring more than 40 stories about living in the Northwest Territories,” organizers continued, “as Hélèna leaves the familiarity of a trendy downtown Montreal neighbourhood for life on a small alpaca farm on the outskirts of Fort Smith.”
Other titles that will be available for purchase at the book fair include:
- Y Spy With My Owl Eyes from PCR Dude’s Club
- Abby Zoo Turns into a Mosquito by Matt Fournier
- Book of Hope by Allice Legat
- Starchives Vol 2 by Cassandra Blondin-Burt
- Things the Trees Taught Me by Carly Straker
- Dying for Gold by Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson
- Ptarmigan in a Birch Tree, Northern Princess, If You Take Me to the Nutcracker, and The Becoming by Amber Henry
- The Other Ones, Elements, Taaqtumi 1 and 2, and Lemming’s First Christmas by Jamesie Fournier
“Join in celebrating northern stories, voices and creativity – because every book tells a piece of our shared northern story,” NorthWords stated in a news release.
