ANNE FLEMING
Hot off the Giller Prize trail, novelist Anne Fleming will be reading in the Okanagan in December. Come hear Anne read from her acclaimed new novel, Curiosities.
Her novel has also been named as one of the best books of 2024 by the Globe and Mail. After the Kelowna reading, novelist Shelley Wood will engage Fleming in a conversation including what it’s like to write historical fiction in this day and age. Wood’s novel The Leap Year Gene is also one of The Globe 100s of 2024.
Friday December 6, 7 - 8:30 PM
Rotary Centre for the Arts (Pacific Safety Products Board Room) 2nd Floor, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC
Saturday, December 7, 1 - 2 PM
Summerland Library. 9533 Main St, Summerland, BC
All events are free of charge.
We are grateful for the support of the Okanagan Regional Library, The Writers Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan.
Photo credit: Nicholas Aiden
Anne Fleming writes short stories, novels, poems, essays and books for children. This year, Anne's novel Curiosities, has been short-listed for the prestigious Giller Prize.
Anne’s writing has won National Magazine awards and has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Italy’s Premio Strega children’s prize. The Goat, named one of the ten best children’s books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Public Library, was also a White Ravens winner and Junior Library Guild selection.
Anne teaches Creative Writing at UBC’s Okanagan Campus.