Beverly Akerman MSc

Beverly Akerman MSc
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday
April 26
Bio
Beverly Akerman's short story collection, The Meaning of Children was released in Canada in 2011 (look for it at Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and http://tinyurl.com/6zd2ecp). After over two decades in molecular genetics research, Beverly realized she'd been learning more and more about less and less. Skittish at the prospect of knowing everything about nothing, she turned, for solace, to writing, winning myriad awards for her efforts. She recently received her third Pushcart nomination. Her nonfiction and academic work have appeared in Maclean’s Magazine, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Montreal Gazette and on CBC Radio One (Canada’s NPR-equivalent), as well as in numerous lay publications and learned journals. It pleases her strangely to believe she’s the only Canadian fiction writer ever to have sequenced her own DNA. http://beverlyakermanmscwriter.blogspot.com/

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MAY 20, 2011 9:25PM

As RT by Margaret Atwood: Exile Writers Series & Book Launch

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I'm thrilled to announce the Toronto Launch of The Meaning of Children! May 31st at the Dora Keogh Irish Pub, 141 Danforth. Part of The Exile Writers Series, we will also be toasting the launch of Claude Tatilon's A Pinch Of Time (David Homel's translation of the original French novel, La soupe au pistou). The book has won many honours and sold 20,000 copies in France.

Jesus Hardwell's story collection Easy Living is also be bein launched, along with Ann Elizabeth Carson and Claudio Gaudio, from Exile Quarterly's 34.3 and 34.4 issues. Music by bass musician Grant Curle.


All in all, an incredible week for Exile Editions, which on May 28th will be presenting:

Exile’s Short Fiction Awards ~ $8,000 to Canadian writers!

Saturday, May 28

6:30 – 10:30 PM

Presentations by the awards’ Sponsor and Host, Ms. Gloria Vanderbilt.

$95.00 per Person ~ Advance Tickets Only / Reservation Only

Price includes assigned Table Seating and Dinner, a copy of the Carter V. Cooper Anthology that features the 10 finalists’ stories, the all-new Exile Quarterly 35.1 (plus a one year subscription), and five $2.00 “free” bets and race guide per guest to play the horses. We will also have available Gloria Vanderbilt’s new collection of stories The Things We Fear Most.

We Honour the Three Winners:

$3,000 ~ Frank Westcott for The Poet

$3,000 ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia for Scales as Pale as Moonlight

$2,000 ~ Ken Stange for The Heart of a Rat


Click here for a PDF of the Invitation in full, and Complete Menu:

May 28 2011.

To make your Reservation, or for additional information, email us at: Event Information and Reservations (the.exile.writers@gmail.com)


Way to go, EXILE!


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