

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Kasia Van Schaik & Sue Sinclair Double Book Launch 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-03:00)
- **Event Description**: Westminster Bookmark, Goose Lane Editions, and Dundurn Press are pleased to present the launch of new books by two acclaimed writers and local creative writing professors, Sue Sinclair (New-Fangled Rose) and Kasia Van Schaik (Women Among Monuments: Solitude, Permission, and the Pursuit of Female Genius)

This free event takes place at Gallery 78 (796 Queen St.) on Thursday, March 26th at 7 pm. Poet Matthew Gwathmey will host.

We hope you'll join us for this fabulous night of poetry and prose!

About Women Among Monuments:

A lyrical meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius. What does it take for a woman to don the mantle of genius - a title long reserved for male artists?

From her studies in Montreal to a dead-end job in Berlin, a midnight tour of Paris, a bankrupt art residency on the Toronto Islands, and a mysterious sculpture garden in the Karoo desert, South African-Canadian author and professor Kasia Van Schaik considers what it means for a young woman to call herself an artist and claim a creative life.

Drawing on a diverse web of literary and cultural sources and artistic icons - from Georgia O'Keeffe to Ana Mendieta, Gertrude Stein to Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Marmon Silko to Bernadette Mayer - Women Among Monuments asks, What, beyond a room of one's own, are the necessary conditions for female genius? Where does the inner flint of artistic permission come from? What is the oxygen that keeps it burning?

In her memoir interwoven with incisive biographies of female solitude, constraint, and perseverance, Van Schaik blazes a trail for more inclusive artmaking practices, communities, and monuments.

About New-Fangled Rose:

Like a rose blooming out of season, the poems in Sue Sinclair’s newest collection are unexpected, unforgettably beautiful, and an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of climate crisis. With the lyrical brilliance and keen eye trained on beauty that’s characteristic of Sinclair, New-Fangled Rose reaches toward the light with reverent hands, photosynthesizing it into poems that are deft, musical, and unquestionably alive.

These poems cast a wide gaze over a fragile world, offering vibrant elegies to luna moths and crab apples, fireflies and trilliums. They examine what it is to build relationships in a world that feels increasingly precarious, like at any moment, something may end; like at any moment, something may begin.

About the Authors:

Kasia Van Schaik is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived On Earth, which was longlisted for the Giller Prize, and shortlisted for the Concordia First Book Prize and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, the Best Canadian Poetry, and the CBC. Kasia holds a PhD in English Literature from McGill University. She lives in Fredericton, where she teaches English and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick.

Sue Sinclair (she/her) grew up in Newfoundland on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry, including most recently Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2022), winner of New Brunswick’s Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Heaven’s Thieves (Brick Books, 2016) won the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Sue teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick on Wəlastəkwey territory, land of the “beautiful and bountiful river.”
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Fredericton
- **state**: NB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Gallery 78
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- **full address**: Gallery 78, 796 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1C6, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-03:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Gallery 78, 796 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1C6, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Westminster Bookmark
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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