Queer Monsters and Nightmares: A Literary Evening

Name: Queer Monsters and Nightmares: A Literary Evening
Start: 2024-10-29T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-29T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Vancouver Public Library

Schedule

Tue Oct 29 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Vancouver Public Library | Vancouver, BC

Join authors Tania De Rozario (Dinner on Monster Island), David Ly (Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry) and Erica McKeen (Tear) as they discuss queer horror writing in all of its spooky dimensions. What sets the horror genre apart, and how can you craft compelling stories that keep readers on the edge of their seats, eager to turn the next page?
Tania De Rozario is a writer, visual artist and author of four books. Her work engages with issues of gender, monstrosity, queer identity, home,and the intersections of text and image. Her latest collection, Dinner on Monster Island, (Harper Perennial, 2024), has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine), “unique” (Publishers Weekly), “a book with resonance” (Kirkus Reviews), "taut and riveting" (LA Times), "elegant", "droll" and "magnetic" (British Columbia Review).
David Ly (he/him, last name pronounced “Lee”) is the author of Mythical Man and Dream of Me as Water, both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press, and short-listed for the 2021 and 2023 ReLit Poetry Awards, respectively. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022).
Erica McKeen is a queer Canadian fiction writer and the author of two novels, Cicada Summer (2024) and Tear (2022), which won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and was chosen as a Globe and Mail best book. She lives in Vancouver, where she works as a teacher and librarian.
*Face masks are encouraged for this event.
Queer Monsters and Nightmares: A Literary Evening takes place in the Montalbano Family Theatre on level 8 at VPL Central Branch at 350 W. Georgia St. Take the main escalators to the 8th floor and turn left twice and the theatre will be on the left.