Join these Giller Prize short list nominees award in a conversation on short story craft. How do we build a whole world in a few pages? And how do we fill that world with memorable characters, vibrant scenes, and enough tension to keep the reader turning the page? Join these experienced authors in a conversation on short story craft.
Location: HSBC Hall
Moderator: Taslim Jaffer
Readers: Shashi Bhat, Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories (Penguin Random House) | Caroline Adderson, A Way to Be Happy (Biblioasis)
About The Moderator
Taslim Jaffer
Taslim Jaffer is a writer, editor and writing instructor from Surrey, B.C. with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of King’s College. Her bylines appear in Macleans, CBC, WestCoast Families, Peace Arch News & more. She is the winner of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Collective/Humber Literary Review contest and recipient of a 2021 Silver Canadian Online Publishing Award. Taslim has been teaching memoir and expressive writing in community and rehabilitative settings since 2015 and is a panelist, moderator, and instructor at literary arts festivals. She is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home (Bookhug*Press, 2024) and the 2024 City of Richmond Writer-in-Residence. Her work-in-progress is an essay collection exploring the evolution of her family across 5 generations and 3 continents.
About The Readers
Shashi Bhat
SHASHI BHAT is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts, and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth, a finalist for the Governor General's Award for fiction, and The Family Took Shape, a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her fiction has won the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and appeared in such publications as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize Stories. Shashi holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Cornell University. She lives in New Westminster, B.C., where she is the editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College.
Caroline Adderson
Caroline Adderson is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, as well as many books for young readers. Her work has received numerous award nominations including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. Winner of three BC Book Prizes and three CBC Literary Awards, Caroline is also the recipient of the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement. www.carolineadderson.com
