Join us this Fall and Winter for a new Local Author Series at the North Vancouver City Library. Every month the library will host a reading from some of the North Shore’s most intriguing writers.

Each reading begins at 7pm, followed by a question and answer period. All readings are held in the Dr. G. Paul Singh Study Hall on the third floor of the library. Doors open at 6:30 for refreshments and beverages.

Readings are FREE and open to the public. No registration is needed.

This is some of the season's line-up:
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30:
STAN PERSKY reading from "Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009"

Stan Persky is a Philosophy Instructor at Capilano University and a recipient of the 2010 Lt.-Gov.'s Award for Literary Excellence. Persky is the author of many books, including Then We Take Berlin, The Short Version: An ABC Book, and Topic Sentence: A Writer's Education.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14:
ED GRIFFIN AND ANDREA WINTERBOTTOM, reading from their respective works on working with prisoners in a creative writing context.

Ed Griffin teaches creative writing at Matsqui Prison, a medium security prison in Western Canada, and has taught the same subject at Waupun prison, a maximum security prison in Wisconsin. As a Roman Catholic Priest, Griffin marched with Dr. Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement. After moving to British Columbia in 1988, Griffin founded Western Canada's largest writer’s conference, the Surrey Writers’ Conference. He has published poetry, plays, short stories and a newspaper column.

As a member of the North Shore Writers Association since 2004, Andrea Winterbottom has held positions as newsletter editor, contest coordinator and executive member. Her stories are published in the NSWA anthologies as well as the Lynn Valley Literary Society’s anthologies

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