Frye Festival Presents: Nicholas Herring & Elaine McCluskey

Join us for a special author event at the Laundromat Espresso Bar, featuring Nicholas Herring (Some Hellish) and Elaine McCluskey (Rafael Has Pretty Eyes), hosted by Thomas Hodd.
Presented by the Frye Festival.

Nicholas Herring’s writings have appeared in the Puritan and the Fiddlehead. He lives in Murray Harbour, PEI, where he works as a carpenter. Some Hellish is Herring’s debut novel.

Elaine McCluskey is the author of three acclaimed short-story collections — Hello, Sweetheart; Valery the Great; and The Watermelon Social — and two novels, Going Fast and The Most Heartless Town in Canada. She is a Journey Prize finalist and her stories have appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, Room and subterrain. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Thomas Hodd is a playwright, cultural critic, and Associate Professor of English at the Université de Moncton. His columns and essays have appeared in Maritime Edit, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the Literary Review of Canada, and Canadian Art, among others. He is the author of No Man Is and Island, which was produced most recently by the Saint John Theatre Company. He is also the editor of Mary Melville, the Psychic: A Critical Edition (Borealis, 2019) as well as A Soldier’s Place: the War Stories of Will R. Bird (Nimbus, 2018). His academic work includes essays and reviews on 19th and 20th century Canadian writers, with particular focus on writers from Atlantic Canada. He is currently the editor of the international literary journal, The Antigonish Review.

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