UPEI Creative Writing Master Class Reading to be held March 21
The annual public reading by UPEI’s Creative Writing Master Class will take place on Tuesday, March 21, at 8:00 pm, in The Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown.
The reading will showcase thirteen of the Island’s talented emerging writers: Joseph Simmonds, Bonnie Flavell, Brian Collins, Emma Willoughby, Jon Debly, Claire MacPhee, Adontae Pratt, Joanna Suchoszek, Olivia Jalbert, Sam Ching, Larissa Storey, Jason Mallard, and Jennifer Tasker.
The writers will read excerpts of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and writing for children. Themes include a visit to a school for magic in England soon after the Second World War ends, Island trees speaking to a devoted human in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, and the crisis of a young man addicted to the internet game world when his computer melts down. Listeners will also follow the adventures of Jhakem the fox in a rich wilderness encroached upon by suburbia, flee into the desert with a woman escaping a dystopian city, marvel at a boy who abandons normal speech for invented words, and visit aging parents during Christmas.
The master class reading is sponsored by the UPEI English Department and Faculty of Arts. Everyone is welcome, and admission is free.
