{"id":26109,"date":"2025-03-24T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=26109"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:27:00","slug":"english-alum-ben-ladouceur-publishes-first-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2025\/english-alum-ben-ladouceur-publishes-first-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to English Alum, Ben Ladouceur, who has published his first novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Congratulations to English Alum, Ben Ladouceur, who has published his first novel\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur<\/a> (B.A. English \u201909 \/ M.A. English \u201912) on the publication of his first novel, I Remember Lights<\/a><\/em> (Book*hug Press, forthcoming April 2025). An award-winning poet, Ben has turned to fiction to tell a story of queer life in Centennial-era Canada. Of the novel, writer Loghan Paylor says: \u201cBen 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-order your copy now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur (B.A. English \u201909 \/ M.A. English \u201912) on the publication of his first novel, I Remember Lights (Book*hug Press, forthcoming April 2025). An award-winning poet, Ben has turned to fiction to tell a story of queer life in Centennial-era Canada. Of the novel, writer Loghan Paylor says: \u201cBen Ladouceur has crafted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,122,127,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-creative-writing-hub","category-graduate-student-successes","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27301,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions\/27301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}