InkWellTold is a quarterly, interactive conversation about writing hosted by The Delta Literary Arts Society. Local authors are invited to share their work and discuss it with a live audience. In September’s InkWellTold, authors Kate MacIntosh and Esmeralda Cabral will be discussing the juxtaposition of darkness and humour in their writing with host Anna Eastland.
Location: Rink Room
Type: Reading, Panel
Presented by: Word Vancouver · Delta Literary Arts Society
Moderator: Anna Eastland, Unexpected Blossoming: A journey of grief and hope (Blurb)
Readers: Kate MacIntosh, The Champagne Letters (Simon and Schuster/Gallery Books) | Esmeralda Cabral, How to Clean a Fish: And Other Adventures in Portugal (University of Alberta Press)
About The Moderator
Anna Eastland
Canadian poet and mother of ten Anna Eastland climbs though the brambles of motherhood to write bittersweet poetry with her blackberry-stained fingers. She is the author of Unexpected Blossoming: A journey of grief and hope (Blurb) , and has contributed to various anthologies including Love Rebel: Reclaiming Motherhood, Never-ending Love: Sharing Stories, Prayers and Comfort for Miscarriage and Infant Loss, Composed, and Habitations Vol.II. She was chosen as a librettist for The Lament’s Project by soprano Ai Horton, who transformed Anna’s babyloss poem “Carry Me” into a song of lament accompanied by harp. Her poem “Hearth-Song” was recently published on The Amethyst Review.
About The Readers
Kate MacIntosh
Kate MacIntosh is always in search of the perfect bottle of wine, a great book and a swoon worthy period costume drama. You’ll find her in Vancouver making friends with every dog she meets, teaching writing, and listening to true crime podcasts while lounging on the sofa spouting random historical facts she finds interesting.
Esmeralda Cabral
Esmeralda Cabral’s first book, a travel memoir entitled How to Clean a Fish and Other Adventures in Portugal was published by University of Alberta Press. Her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Understorey Magazine, The Common Online, and others, as well as in ten anthologies. Her most recent publication, “Such a Pity, Senhora” is included in the anthology Back Where I Came From, forthcoming from Book*hug Press in November. Two of her stories have aired on CBC Radio. Esmeralda was born in the Azores, Portugal, grew up in Alberta, and now lives on Musqueam Land in Vancouver, BC.
