Ariel Gordon & GMB Chomichuk Book Launch (Blood Letters)

Schedule

Fri Oct 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue | Winnipeg, MB

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Join Ariel Gordon and GMB Chomichuk for the launch of their new co-creation, Blood Letters (Yellow Dog). Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to a reading from the authors and be guided through a live art performance by illustrator GMB Chomichuk. The event will be followed by a conversation with the authors, hosted by Susie Moloney, and a book signing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781773371436/ariel-gordon/blood-letters
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/PkqckmK0G-A
When your entire family is caught up in a world war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities, the only question that matters is: what are you willing to do to survive? Siblings Kris, Albany, and Millie each inhabit a different part of the war—special ops and cannon-fodder at the front and codeworks behind the line—which transforms and transmutes how they think of themselves and their allegiances. They dump everything they know—confessions and consolations alongside poems for fallen friends and battleground sketches—into letters.
Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with Plume Winnipeg that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press and the poetry editor for The Goose. Her most recent books include Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate change across the prairies and the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest. Her work has appeared recently in Best Canadian Essays 2025 and Prairie Fire’s 50 Over 50 special issue.
GMB Chomichuk is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in comics, graphic novels, books, role-playing games, film, television and theatre. He is the host of Super Pulp Science, a podcast about how genre gets made. His work in words and pictures ranges from the heartwarming to the bloodcurdling. Other works from GMB Chomichuk include Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal, Will I See? and The Automatic Age and The Backbone of Night.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue, McNally Robinson for Kids, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada

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