Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur (B.A. English ’09 / M.A. English ’12) on the publication his first novel, I Remember Lights (Book*hug Press, 2025). An award-winning poet, Ben has turned to fiction to tell a story of queer life in Centennial-era Canada. Of the novel, Loghan Paylor says: “Ben Ladouceur has crafted a raw, intimate portrait of queer desire and resilience against the well-researched and cunningly detailed backdrop of Expo 67 and 1970s Montreal.” In a Quill & Quire review, Brett Josef Grubicsic says I Remember Lights is “somehow instantly canonical––an accomplished, necessary novel that should always have been written.”
