On Writing Motherhood: Harriet Alida Lye, Stacey May Fowles, and Amil Niazi
About this Event
Harriet Alida Lye is the award-winning author of the novels Let It Destroy You and The Honey Farm, the memoir Natural Killer, and co-author of the picture book Serge the Snail Without a Shell. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Happy Reader, Hazlitt, Vice, Catapult, and more. She lives in Toronto.
Her latest book Motherclown, is dual coming-of-age story about performance—both public and private—sexuality, envy, and grief. Motherclown explores the most fundamental and potentially explosive of human relationships: that of a mother and her daughter.
Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, author of six books and editor of four anthologies. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reader’s Digest, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, and many others. Her non-fiction collection, Baseball Life Advice, was a national bestseller, and was selected by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year, and her children's book, The Invitation, was named a Best Book for Kids by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
In The Lost Season, Stacey May Fowles returns with the honesty, humour, and heart that readers love in a memoir exploring infertility, motherhood, mental health, and the work demanded of women.
Amil Niazi was born in London, U.K. to Pakistani parents before the family moved to Canada. She studied journalism in Vancouver, founded her own print magazine, and then moved to Toronto, where she worked at CBC and Vice. She moved back to the UK to work for the BBC and The Guardian, and then, when the pandemic hit, returned to Toronto to go freelance. She’s published essays in the New York Times, The Cut, The Guardian, Romper, the Washington Post, Hazlitt, Elle, Vice and Refinery29.
Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Life After Ambition stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood and life after ambition— for readers of Ada Calhoun, Jia Tolentino, Jessi Klein, and Maggie Smith.
Anjula Gogia is the manager and events coordinator at Another Story Bookshop, and the mother of two children.
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