Three respected writers are about to see the light of day, and get out from behind their computers, when the Vertigo Voices reading series returns for another year.
Presented by Okanagan College’s department of English and its diploma in publishing and editing program, the authors will read from their respective works at Gallery Vertigo in downtown Vernon, starting Wednesday.
That’s when Okanagan College English instructor Frances Greenslade reads from her latest novel, Shelter, which has been shortlisted for a B.C. Book Prize and is one of five nominees for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Greenslade holds a masters in fine art in creative writing from UBC and has lived in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and B.C.
Her first book, A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction.
On March 21 is a reading by Richard Krueger, who grew up in Prince George and earned his bachelor degree from UNBC in 1999.
Krueger won the inaugural Barry McKinnon Chapbook Prize in 2006, and his writing has appeared in various chapbooks, while his first book of poetry, The Monotony of Fatal Accidents, appeared in BookThug in 2011.
No stranger to Vernon audiences, local actor/director and Ghost Tours of Vernon host Gabriel Newman will read from his latest graduate project, The Social Potluck, March 28.
Newman has been a professional actor and storyteller around the North Okanagan for many years and is currently completing his masters in performance studies at UBC Okanagn.
He conducted his community-collaborative project, The Social Potluck, with a number of locals, who provided the stories over a meal.
All readings start at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Gallery Vertigo is located at #1-3001-31st. St. (upstairs) and admission is by donation.
