Budge Wilson Bookmark Unveiling and Celebration

Please join us for the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark on Saturday, October 18th, at 3:00 p.m. on the Dalhousie University campus, at the east side of Shirreff Hall, 6385 South Street, Halifax, NS. This Project Bookmark Canada plaque honours Wilson's short story "The Leaving."

A reception will follow at 3:30 pm in the Council Chambers at the Dalhousie Student Union Building, 6136 University Ave., Halifax. The event is free and open to the public.

Members of the Nova Scotia Reading Circle for Project Bookmark selected the passage from “The Leaving” for several reasons. It is a powerful narrative of a quiet act of rebellion and emancipation and evokes the City of Halifax and the Dalhousie campus in vivid detail. It is the first Bookmark in Nova Scotia for work by a woman writer or by a children’s/young adult author and also the first Bookmark on a university campus.

As Alexander MacLeod (a member of the Reading Circle) says, “Budge Wilson was one of Atlantic Canadian Literature’s most important, most prolific and best-loved writers. “‘The Leaving’ holds a special place in her writing career. It is one of the most influential pieces Wilson ever wrote, and one of the most important works of literature to ever ‘take in’ the urban landscape of Halifax.”

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• Next Tuesday, 21st October, 07:00 pm, Book launch for The Austens, a novel by Sarah Emsley in Halifax

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