In Converation: Anna Quon with Dorothy Ellen Palmer

Invisible Publishing and Another Story Bookshop present Anna Quon (WHERE THE SILVER RIVER ENDS) in conversation with Dorothy Ellen Palmer (FALLING FOR MYSELF). Join us for a live-streamed discussion between the two authors about their latest works.

DATE: Monday, May 30
TIME: 6-7 PM ET (7-8 PM AT)
WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/96935954667 (No pre-registration required.)
COST: FREE

ABOUT ANNA QUON: Middle-aged, mixed-race, Mad Halifax writer Anna Quon spent eight glorious months in Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution, teaching English She facilitates writing workshops, particularly for the mental health community. Her first novel, Migration Songs, was shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second, Low, is set in Nova Scotia’s largest psychiatric hospital. In 2021, Anna was awarded the inaugural Social Justice Ally Award from the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers.

WHERE THE SILVER RIVER ENDS lives at the crossroads of youthful hope and the startling magic of coincidence. Anna Quon’s third novel delves deep into mixed-race identity, systemic oppression, family reconciliation, and what happens when we gather the courage to slip out of the current and make our own way in the world.

ABOUT DOROTHY ELLEN PALMER: Dorothy Ellen Palmer is a multiply disabled senior writer, mom of two, former English/Drama teacher, improv coach and union activist. Winner of the 2020 Helen Henderson Award for disability journalism, her fiction and nonfiction appear in literary and disability journals. Long-listed for the ReLit Award, When Fenelon Falls, (Coach House, 2010) features a disabled teen in the Moonwalk-Woodstock summer of 1969. Her adoption-disability memoir, Falling for Myself, (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019), was a finalist for the Hamilton Book Award. Kerfuffle, the tale of an improv troupe making sense and nonsense of Toronto’s G20 protests, hit the stage this spring with Renaissance Press.

In FALLING FOR MYSELF Dorothy Ellen Palmer reckons with her past and with everyone’s future, and allows herself to fall and get up and fall again, knees bloody, but determined to seek Disability Justice, to insist we all be seen, heard, included and valued for who we are.

ABOUT ANOTHER STORY BOOKSHOP (co-host): Another Story Bookshop is a progressive bookstore in Toronto with a comprehensive selection of books for children and adults, all with an emphasis on social justice, equity, and diversity.

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