Joanne MerriamFeb 23

Really enjoyed this reading and presentation yesterday by Jon Tattrie on Charles R. Saunders and Africville, with something of a memorial to Eddie Carvery as well, and talking about how his biography of Saunders came to be written.

The event also included some incredible readings by the current and former Charles R. Saunders Prize winners Theo Feehan-Peters (2024), Nailah Tataa (2025), and Norman Ho (2026), introduced by
the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia's Linda Hudson.

Leading up to TriCon, we're reading Saunders’ iconic Sword & Soul epic, Imaro, and discussing on the TriCon discord. Jon Tattrie will lead a discussion the weekend of the con! Past Saunders Prize winners will also read there. tricon-halifax.com/events/

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Show threadJoanne Merriam

I am living for Jon Tattrie's biography of Saunders right now. So interesting! Highly recommended. And of course we're reading Imaro for TriCon.

And I'm really curious about that quote by Bell that "probably the chief reason that Ottawa has emerged as the fantasy capitol of Canada is...Saunders" (fourth picture) - I wonder if there's a direct line from his group of #Ottawa fantasists to James Botte and Farrell McGovern founding Can*Con in '91. Anybody know? (Or maybe this is later in the book! I am only on page 68.)

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