# Event Details - **Event Name**: Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey) - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for the Toronto launch of Alex Turner and Lucian Childs' CONFLUENCE! Featuring a conversation with Lucian Childs and Ken Harvey.About this EventAn intimate, deeply moving queer coming-of-age novel that evokes '50s small-town life and the surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall '60s.In 1956, lonely teenager Teddy is drawn to the water and woods surrounding his small town, where he meets bad boy Wade and becomes overwhelmed by his attraction to him. During the rapturous early period of their friendship, the two range over the area’s mountains and waterways before falling out after high school over Teddy’s sexuality. In the years following their separation, Teddy—now going by Ted—struggles to live openly as a gay man, finding and losing lovers at parties, dance clubs, and cruising spots in a surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall gay Vancouver. He is befriended by a lively crew of eccentrics—a new chosen family—who aid him in finding fulfillment both as a gay man and as an artist. Returning to his hometown nearly a decade later, Ted must decide whether or not to reunite with the one who once meant so much to him: the sexy and mercurial Wade.Confluence is a collaboration between late author Alex Turner and his husband, Lucian Childs. Drawing on his sixty-year history with his beloved West Coast home, Turner wrote much of this beautifully rendered novel before he passed away in 2019. Childs, an award-winning author himself, completed the work, a novel that is simultaneously poetic, humorous, and exuberantly down to earth.Lucian Childs (he/him) is a writer whose debut novel-in-stories, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist Building Fires in the Snow (University of Alaska Press). His work appears in Grain, Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire, and other publications. He lives in Toronto, ON.KEN HARVEY (he/him) has published work in over twenty literary magazines. His book of short stories, if you were with me everything would be all right, won the Violet Quill Award for Best Gay Fiction of the Year and was named one of the "twenty books of note" by the Lambda Literary Review. His memoir, A Passionate Engagement, was honored by the American Library Association as a Rainbow Book. Ken has read his work on On Point, a program on National Public Radio, and is a book reviewer. When not working on his own writing, he teaches at writing such programs as the Young Writers Institute at the Bennington Writing Seminars. He also works with writers individually to help them perfect their craft. Ken is a member of the Authors Guild and the Writers’ Union of Canada. He’s been awarded residencies in Taos, New Mexico, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the Middlebury Language Schools and an M.F.A in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars. A dual Canadian-US citizen, he lives in Toronto, Ontario with his husband and basset hound, Lily Tomlin. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/launch-of-confluence-with-co-author-lucian-childs-and-ken-harvey/100001995020939334 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, parties, fine-arts, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Another Story Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Toronto - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: Another Story Bookshop - **lat**: 43.6485482 - **long**: -79.4497583 - **full address**: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey) - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/071171c3976c9e93f7966a374913cf7ac2e1b5ead81d490c410fcb6a6b87c6ad-rimg-w1200-h600-dc081828-gmir.jpg?v=1786323124 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey) being held? - **A:** Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey) takes place on Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey)? - **A:** Launch of CONFLUENCE with co-author Lucian Childs (and Ken Harvey) is organized by Another Story Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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