{"id":24348,"date":"2024-02-07T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=24348"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:34","slug":"reading-and-talk-with-author-mike-blouin","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/event\/reading-and-talk-with-author-mike-blouin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Discussion with Author Mike Blouin"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h4 id=\"the-department-of-english-invites-you-to-hear-award-winning-canadian-author-mike-blouin-read-from-and-discuss-his-work\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Department of English invites you to hear award-winning Canadian author Mike Blouin read from and discuss his work.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Mike-Blouin-February-28-Reading-and-Talk-240x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24349\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Blouin<\/strong> has won the ReLit Best Novel in Canada Award twice (2009 and 2020). He has also been shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award, the bp Nichol Award, the CBC Literary Award, and is a winner of the Diana Brebner Award and the Lampman Award from ARC Magazine. He has six published books (a seventh, eighth and ninth are contracted) and he is featured in several anthologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He serves as an adjudicator for The Canada Council for the Arts and The Ontario Arts Council, and has also adjudicated awards for The Ottawa Book Awards, Carleton University and <em>This<\/em> Magazine and he acts as a mentor for young writers for the ReLit Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His 2019 novel <em>Skin House<\/em> and his 2022 novel <em>I am Billy the Kid<\/em> have been included on NASA\/Astobotics\u2019 2024 missions to the moon and the 2024 joint NASA\/SpaceX lunar landings respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[79],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-24348","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-creative-writing"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-02-28T16:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-02-28T18:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"Gordon Wood Lounge - 1811","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"Collett.Tracey@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/24348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/24348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24363,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/24348\/revisions\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=24348"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=24348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}