Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
A Reading by J. R. Carpenter
March 9, 2010
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
Reception to follow – All welcome!
“Carpenter writes with humour and directness, melding the emotional precision of her award-winning short fiction with the narrative ingenuity of her pioneering works in electronic literature.”
J. R. Carpenter (luckysoap.com) is a poet, fiction writer and pioneering web artist. Her electronic literature has been presented in the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, the Rhizome ArtBase, the Web Biennial 2007 and the Electronic Literature Collection. Her short fiction has been broadcast on CBC Radio,translated into French, and anthologized in Le livre du chevet, In Other Words, Lust for Life and Short Stuff, and published in Geist, The New Quarterly, Matrix and Blood & Aphorisms. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (Conundrum Press, Montreal) won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book 2008. The inaugural winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Prize and a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition and a fellow of Yaddo, Ucross, The Banff Centre and The Vermont Studio Center, she serves as president of the board of directors of OBORO New Media Lab in Montreal.
