VIRTUAL READING | Read Quebec: Rapid Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing

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stephanie roberts, author of rushes from the river disappointment, will participate in the Read Quebec: Holiday Book Fest opening event, Rapid Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing. Presented by Penguin Random House Canada.

Fifteen writers from a range of genres will keep things hopping by reading from their new work—for only two minutes each. After each writer reads, they will contribute to a collaborative text that will be read aloud at the end of the show—with élan!—by host Nisha Coleman.

PARTICIPANTS: Breezy, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, April Ford, Nathan Caro Frechette, Dani Jansen, Andreas Kessaris, Richard King, Justin Ling, Rachel McCrum, Saleema Nawaz, Hazel Jane Plante, stephanie roberts, Greg Santos, Lauren Turner

ABOUT THE BOOK

This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. stephanie roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.

A citizen of Canada, Panama, and the United States, stephanie roberts is the prize-winning author of The Melting Potential of Fire. roberts is based in Quebec.