Book launch: Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
Le jeudi 10 août 2023, à 18h00.
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Librairie féministe L'Euguélionne, 1426 Beaudry (métro Beaudry)
Violet Hour presents the Montreal launch of Anuja Varghese's debut book of short stories, Chrysalis (House of Anansi, 2023). In this collection, Anuja delves fearlessly into complex intersections of family, community, sexuality, and cultural expectations, with a feminist, speculative lens. The book takes unapologetic aim at the ways in which racialized women are robbed of power and revels in the strange and dangerous journeys they undertake to reclaim it.
This launch will feature Anuja reading from the book and a Q&A with Violet Hour’s Brooke Lee. The event will also include a reading from special guest, Montreal writer H. Felix Chau Bradley.
This event is a partnership with Recherche en études queer au Québec (ÉRÉQQ) and Librairie L'Euguélionne.
Wine will be served.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Anuja Varghese is a QWOC Pushcart-nominated writer whose work appears in Hobart, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Plenitude Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, So to Speak Journal, Flock Literary Journal, and Corvid Queen: A Journal of Feminist Fairy Tales, among others. Her work has been recognized in the PRISM International Short Fiction Contest, the Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest, and the Alice Munro Festival Short Story Competition. She writes literary fiction, speculative fiction, and erotica/romance – and combinations of all three – where women of colour get leading roles. In 2022, Anuja has work included in When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead, an anthology of BIPOC gothic horror from Haunt Press, and Queer Little Nightmares, an anthology of queer monster stories from Arsenal Pulp Press. Her debut short story collection titled Chrysalis, exploring South Asian diaspora experience through a feminist, speculative lens, will be released in spring 2023 with House of Anansi.
Anuja is also a professional grant writer, book reviewer, and editor and in 2021, took on the role of Fiction Editor with The Ex-Puritan Magazine. She holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and is currently pursuing a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto while working on an adult fantasy novel based on medieval India.
Anuja lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her partner, two cats, and two kids.
Brooke Lee is an aspiring writer from Windsor-Essex, Ontario. She moved to Montreal, Quebec to obtain a Master of Arts in Education from McGill University, and now writes fiction under the pen name River Lee. She is currently completing her debut novel, a queer coming of age story about a musician who is chasing dreams and facing realities. When not writing, you can find her playing guitar, hiking, or reading the latest book for the Violet Hour Book Club. Keep an eye out for her upcoming work on Instagram @riverlee_writer
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