Sean Johnston Reading, Fredericton

UNB Creative Writing graduate Sean Johnston will be returning to read from his newest work, the novel All This Town Remembers. The reading will take place on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 8:00 pm in the McConnell Hall Senior Common Room, University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Johnston was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Asquith, Saskatchewan. He made a name for himself with a collection of stories, A Day Does Not Go By. Full of dark comedy and magic realism, the book won the 2002 David Adams Richards Award for Fiction. In the judge’s statement for the award, Johnston’s writing was said to be “reminiscent of Hemingway.”

In his debut novel, All This Town Remembers, Johnston revisits his small town Saskatchewan roots with a resonant story of a town dealing with the death, twenty-five years later, of the high school hockey star. It is a startlingly perceptive exploration of memory.

The reading is sponsored by UNBF’s Department of English, the University Bookstore
and the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information on the reading, feel free to contact Ross Leckie at (506)458-7395.