The ANNEthology Book Launch

Name: The ANNEthology Book Launch
Start: 2024-06-23T19:00:00-03:00
End: 2024-06-23T20:30:00-03:00
Location: The Guild

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

The Guild | Charlottetown, PE

Please join us at The Guild, on Sunday June 23rd from 7 to 8:30 pm for the launch of The ANNEthology. The event is free, all are welcome to attend. In addition to the two editors, Judith Graves and Robin Sutherland having a discussion about the project, author Hope Dalvay, Deirdre Kessler, and Susan White will also read from their work at the launch
Who is your Anne? Join ten of Canada’s top young adult fiction writers set Canada’s favourite red-haired orphan, Anne Shirley, on brand new adventures. With its futuristic settings, cybernetic beings, ghosts, mysterious books and boxes, and racial and sexual diversity in its cast of characters, The ANNEthology offers serious “scope for the imagination” for all readers.
2024 marks the 150th anniversary of L.M. Montgomery’s birth and the 30th anniversary of Acorn Press, Prince Edward Island’s longest-running traditional publishing house. What better way to celebrate these milestones than publishing a collection of stories inspired by the Island’s (and one of Canada’s) most beloved authors? Sure to include something for everyone, this is a must-have collection for Anne of Green Gables fans.
Contributors include Judith Graves, Robin Sutherland, Deirdre Kessler, Hope Dalvay, Susan White, Susie Moloney, Shari Green, Paul Coccia, Natasha Deen, Matthew Dawkins
JUDITH GRAVES is an award-winning young adult fiction writer (Exposed and Infiltrate:Retribution Series with Orca Book Publishers), as well as a screenwriter and illustrator. A Tale of Two Kitties, her debut picture book, was published by Acorn Press. A firm believer that fiction can be action-packed, sassy, and yet hit the right emotional notes, Judith writes stories with attitude. As a child, Judith lived in Summerside when her father was in the Forces. It was a sad day when he was posted and the family moved to Alberta. She may have convinced her husband to have an Anne of Green Gables themed wedding. The Island kept calling to Judith, and now, many years later, she’s back and thrilled to be living in Summerside with her husband and sassy fur babies
ROBIN SUTHERLAND can’t remember a time when she wasn’t working with words: reading them, studying them, and teaching others how to use them. She holds a Ph.D. in literature and a certificate in Technical Writing, and has worked variously as a university instructor, a writing centre coordinator, and a freelance writer and editor. Also a creative writer, she has published some of her short fiction in Zygote, Room of One’s Own, and The Broken City, and has recently completed a collection of stories based on her years as a lifeguard in the Toronto suburbs.
HOPE DALVAY read Anne of Green Gables at the age of ten, and knew she had found her BFF (her Best Fictional Friend) in Anne Shirley. Later, Hope turned her daydreaming habit into a passion for writing middle-grade children’s novels (Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the-Blank and My Year as a SPACE Cadet) and an educational picture book (The Multiplication Rap). Her short story “In Search of Kindred Spirits” (The ANNEthology) is an expression of Hope’s heartfelt gratitude to the friend and to the book that made her a forever reader.

DEIRDRE KESSLER is a former Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island and author of over two dozen books for children and adults. Her novel Darwin’s Hornpipe was published by
Penumbra Press in 2023. She worked closely with the creators of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI; she was project director of the multi-award-winning CD-ROM: The Bend in the Road: The Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery; and she wrote the epilogue in L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Deirdre is a full-time writer and a sessional professor with the UPEI English Department.

SUSAN WHITE is a New Brunswick writer who lives on the Kingston Peninsula (just outside Saint John), where she and her husband Burton raised four children and ran a small farm. She earned her BA and BEd at St. Thomas University, and taught elementary school for 29 years. Susan retired in 2009 to write full time, and has published thirteen books. Her latest novel, The Way I Feel, was just released, and her first book, The Year Mrs. Montague Cried, won the Ann Connor Brimer Excellence in Children’s Literature award in 2012