In Conversation with Mona Awad

Name: In Conversation with Mona Awad
Start: 2025-10-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Playhouse Cinema

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Playhouse Cinema | Hamilton, ON

Join us for an evening with bestselling author Mona Awad, in conversation with Amy Jones, discussing her new novel We Love You, Bunny.
We Love You, Bunny is the highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse.
Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.
Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.
Amy Jones is the author of the story collection What Boys Like and the novels We're All in This Together, Every Little Piece of Me, and Pebble & Dove. Her work has won the Northern Lit Award, the Metcalf-Rooke Award, and the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, has been shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the ReLit Award, and the Bronwen Wallace Award, and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Journey Prize Stories. Amy has taught creative writing at Lakehead University and University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and currently is a mentor with the Flying Books mentorship program. Originally from Halifax, Amy currently lives in Hamilton.
Books will be available to purchase on-site with a book signing to follow the talk.
Presented in partnership with Epic Books, Playhouse Cinema and Simon & Schuster Canada.