

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Unforgettable Characters: Three Canadian Authors in Conversation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join acclaimed author Lindsay Wong, with Zilla Jones, Alison Gadsby, and Hollay Ghadery for an evocative conversation. Their books travel the world and into the minds of unforgettable characters. Find out where they came from, and where they’ll take you.

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/mZpx0DVgURg

Presented with support from the Writers' Union of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
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Zilla Jones is an award-winning writer, anti-racist educator, lawyer, and singer. Recognized by the CBC Prize, the Journey Prize, the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, she was also chosen as a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. She lives on Treaty 1 territory. The World So Wide is her debut novel.

World renowned opera singer Felicity Alexander should be charming audiences, not under house arrest during a revolution. Her career in ascendance, Felicity accepts an invitation to perform in Grenada. Surrounded by guns, Felicity must decide how to use her voice.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781770867758/zilla-jones/the-world-so-wide
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Alison Gadsby lives in Tkaronto, where she hosts Junction Reads, a prose reading series. Her debut novel, Dreams Of The Weary is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press. Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive is her first collection.

A widower hires a humanoid nanny, a woman learns to swim, and a mother recycles time in stories that blur the lines between horror, speculative fiction and psychological realism, with characters struggling to stay afloat in the wake of childhoods they barely survived.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781778490156/alison-gadsby/breathing-is-how-some-people-stay-alive
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Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living on Anishinaabe land. The author of an award- winning memoir, Fuse, a collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, a collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, and a chapbook. The Unraveling of Ou is her debut novel.

On one of the happiest days of her life, Minoo is faced with a choice: make a clean break from her sock puppet companion or lose everyone she loves. Ecology Paul recalls Minoo’s teenage pregnancy in Iran, her exile to Canada, her questions about her sexuality, and his origin story.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781997508090/hollay-ghadery/the-unravelling-of-ou
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Music
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Winnipeg
- **state**: MB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: McNally Robinson Booksellers
- **lat**: 49.857618289323
- **long**: -97.165596350487
- **full address**: McNally Robinson Booksellers, McNally Robinson for Kids, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** McNally Robinson Booksellers, McNally Robinson for Kids, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** McNally Robinson Booksellers
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Unforgettable Characters: Three Canadian Authors in Conversation ?
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