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COMPLETE ARCHIVAL LISTING OF SAINT MARY’S READING SERIES EVENTS
(2 - 2nd reading; 3 - 3rd reading)
Before 1990-91 academic year
Sandra Birdsell
George Elliott Clarke (Writer in Residence, 1990)
Timothy Findley
Sylvia Fraser
Mavis Gallant
Wayne Johnston
Susan Kerslake (Writer in Residence, 1989)
Veronica Ross (Writer in Residence, 1987)
Harry Thurston (Writer in Residence, 1988)
Readings preceding official creation of “Series”
1990-91
Mary Dalton
Steven Heighton
Bill Schermbrucker (Writer in Residence)
1991-92
Laurence Hutchman
Roo Borson
Jane Urquhart
Laura Lush
Ann Copeland (Writer in Residence)
Nancy Bauer
Richard Harrison
1992-93
Steven Heighton2 (Writer in Residence)
Nino Ricci
Tom Pow (Scotland-Canada Exchange Writer)
Don McKay
1993-94
Audrey Thomas
Anne Michaels
David Adams Richards
Joseph Sherman
Robyn Sarah
THE SUN ROOM READING SERIES
1994-95
Ian Colford & Nancy Minard
Elisabeth Harvor
John Metcalf
Eric Trethewey
Joan Clark (Writer in Residence)
1995-96
Mark Abley
Liane Heller (launch of her poetry collection Along the Sea Wall)
Jan Zwicky
Tim Lilburn (Writer in Residence)
Richard Lemm & Lesley-Anne Bourne
Rhea Tregebov
1996-97
Bruce Rice
Bernice Morgan
1997-98
Peter Sanger
Gail Scott
Marilyn Bowering (Writer in Residence)
Matt Cohen
Ross Leckie & David Manicom
THE GALLERY READING SERIES
1998-99
John Terpstra
Elizabeth Hay
Janice Kulyk Keefer
John Steffler (Writer in Residence)
A. F. Moritz
Heather Spears
1999-2000
Lynn Coady
John Donlan
Barbara Klar
Tim Bowling
Bryden MacDonald (Writer in Residence)
Don Domanski
Lesley-Anne Bourne2
Eric Ormsby
2000-01
Jeffery Donaldson & Thomas O’Grady
Matt Robinson (launch of his poetry collection A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking)
Catherine Bush
Carmelita McGrath
Michael Winter (Writer in Residence)
Dennis Lee
2001-02
Bruce Taylor
Sue Sinclair
Austin Clarke
Roo Borson2 (Writer in Residence)
M. Travis Lane
Mark Anthony Jarman
Laurence Hutchman2
2002-03
Anne Carson
Tim Lilburn2 & Adam Dickinson
Anne Compton
Fred Stenson
Richard Cumyn (Writer in Residence)
Robert Bringhurst
2003-04
Brent MacLaine & Joseph Sherman2
Gregory Cook & Yvonne Trainer
Richard Sanger & Ricardo Sternberg
Pamela Donoghue
Donna Morrissey
Marilyn Dumont (Writer in Residence)
2004-05
Barry Dempster
Greg Hollingshead
Mary Dalton2
Sharon McCartney
Michael Redhill (Writer in Residence)
Erin Moure & Triny Finlay
2005-06
Don McKay2 & Jan Zwicky2 & Ross Leckie2
Christy Ann Conlin
Patrick Kavanagh
Lynn Davies & Eric Miller
David Manicom2 & David O’Meara & (from Australia) Andrew Sant
2006-07
Robin McGrath & Matt Robinson2
Adam Dickinson2
Aislinn Hunter
Patrick Warner
Tammy Armstrong & Phil Hall & David Seymour & Karen Solie
Eric Trethewey2 (Writer in Residence)
Peter Behrens
2007-08
Don Domanski2 (launch of his poetry collections All Our Wonder Unavenged and Earthly
Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski)
Elizabeth Philips
Bernice Morgan2
John Reibetantz
Allan Cumyn
Lisa Moore (stormbound consulting writer-in-residence via e-mail – public reading
cancelled)
2008-09
Guy Gavriel Kay
David Hickey & Jeffery Donaldson2
D. Y. Bechard
Randy Maggs & Barbara Klar2
Mary Novik
Ian Colford2
Patricia Young & Terence Young & Wayne Clifford
Noah Richler
Stan Dragland (Writer in Residence)
2009-10
John Donlan2 & Sue Sinclair2
Colin McAdam
Bonnie Burnard
Fred Stenson2
Steven Galloway & Ryan Turner
Various poets and other readers launching The Essential James Reaney
Robyn Sarah2 (Writer in Residence) & Wanda Campbell
Anne Compton2 & James Langer
THE ATRIUM READING SERIES
2010-11
Richard Lemm2 & David Zieroth
Vanessa Moeller & Matt Robinson3
Julia McCarthy (launch of her poetry collection Return from Erebus) & Sharon McCartney2
Joan Thomas
John Barton & Chris Hutchinson
John Steffler2 & George Sipos
Richard Cumyn2 & R. W. Gray
Michael Crummey (Writer in Residence)
Annabel Lyon
THE SAINT MARY’S READING SERIES
2011-12
Wayne Johnston2
Antanas Sileika
Alex Pierce (launch of her poetry collection Vox Humana) & Margo Wheaton
Steven Heighton2
Warren Heiti & Heather Jessup (launch of his poetry collection Hydrologos and her novel
The Lightning Field)
Holly Luhning
Sue Goyette
Nick Thran & Basma Kavanagh
Don McKay3 (Writer in Residence) & Jacob McArthur Mooney
2012-13
Maureen Hynes & Ruth Roach Pierson
Jan Zwicky3 & M. Travis Lane2
Vincent Lam
Ian Colford2
Stephanie Bolster & Susan Gillis
Madeleine Thien
Carole Langille
Clark Blaise (Writer in Residence)
Michael Pacey & Clea Roberts
2013-14
Julie Bruck & Susan Glickman
Lynn Davies & Carmelita McGrath2
Thomas King
Danny Jacobs & Jessica Moore
Miranda Hill
Catherine Bush2,
Alice Burdick & Rachel Lebowitz
Bill Gaston & Michael Christie
Don Gayton
Diane Schoemperlen (Writer in Residence)
Rawi Hage
2014-15
James Arthur & Chantelle Rideout
Don McKay4 & Stevie Howell
Binnie Brennan (launch of her novel Like Any Other Monday)
Deanna Young & Kerry-Lee Powell
Richard Wagamese
Michael Crummey2
Kathleen Winter
Alistair MacLeod Tribute (readings by Brian Bartlett, Chris Benjamin, Carol Bruneau,
Alice Burdick, Silver Donald Cameron, Ian Colford, Valerie Compton, Sheree Fitch, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Cory Lavender, Linda Little, Leo McKay, and Marjorie Simmons), Craig Davidson (also a.k.a. Nick Cutter)
John Terpstra2 (Writer in Residence) & Mark Silverberg
Anne Compton3 & Ross Leckie3
2015-16
Marina Endicott & Carol Bruneau
Peter Norman & Daniel Scott Tysdal & Ali Blythe
Joan Clark2
Allan Cooper & Harry Thurston
Mark Anthony Jarman2
K. D. Miller
Mark Abley2 (Writer in Residence)
Sean Michaels
2016-17
Lisa Moore
Celebration of new Nova Scotia Poetry Collections: Deirdre Dwyer, Alyda Faber, Nanci Lee, Genevieve Lehr, Matt Robinson, Margo Wheaton
André Alexis
Eden Robinson (Writer in Residence)
Meags Fitzgerald
2017-18
Steven Heighton
Kerry-Lee Powell
2018-19
Annick MacAskill, Chris Bailey, and Steve McOrmond
Rachel Lebowitz and A.F. Moritz
John Metcalf
Doug Gibson
Anakana Schofield