An Evening with Mark Morton

Name: An Evening with Mark Morton
Start: 2025-02-15T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-15T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Raven's End Books: The Horror Bookshop, 1859 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg

Schedule

Sat Feb 15 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Raven's End Books: The Horror Bookshop, 1859 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg | Winnipeg, MB

Join former Winnipegger Mark Morton sharing his thought-provoking dystopian novel, The Headmasters. (Teens/Adults)
Everyone at Blue Ring has a Headmaster. They sink their sinewy coils into your skull and control you, using your body for backbreaking toil and your mind to communicate with each other. When someone dies, their Headmaster transfers to someone new. But so do the dead person’s memories, and if one of those memories surfaces in the new host’s mind, their brain breaks. That’s why talking about the past is forbidden…
This is the world of THE HEADMASTERS , a chilling novel by Mark Morton which renowned sci-fi author Robert Sawyer has praised as “a brilliant science-fiction debut from one of Canada’s best-loved nonfiction writers.” The Winnipeg Free Press calls it “a worthy companion to books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids in contemplating humanity and freedom in a Canadian context.”
Join us at Raven’s End Books: The Horror Bookshop on Saturday, February 15, to hear Mark read from The Headmasters, then have an on-stage conversation with writer and editor Keith Cadieux. Reception and book-signing to follow.
When: Saturday, February 15 at 7:00pm
Where: Raven's End Books: The Horror Bookshop , 1859 Portage Avenue
Cost: Free
Registration recommended, limited capacity.
MARK MORTON is also the author of four books of nonfiction on language, culture, and history. He has broadcast more than a hundred columns on language and culture for CBC radio, and has written nearly 50 essays for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture , published by the University of California Press. From 1993 to 2005, Mark lived in Winnipeg (a city he misses dearly) and taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Winnipeg. He lives and works in Kitchener-Waterloo.
In 1997, Mark was the cofounder, along with Andris Taskans and Robyn Maharaj, of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. We are now Plume Winnipeg, and it is a special pleasure to feature him in our newly-minted THIN AIR KIDS festival!
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