Authors@Acadia

Each year the Department of English and Theatre hosts a series of readings and presentations by authors from across the region and around the world. These events are open to the public and are an important source of cultural enrichment for student, faculty, and Wolfville community members alike. 

FALL 2024

Elaine McCluskey

Reading from The Gift Child
4pm Wednesday, September 25
Beveridge Arts Centre, Room 132

Tiffany Morris

Reading from Elegies of Rotting Stars
7pm Wednesday, October 23
Quiet Reading Room, Vaughan Memorial Library

WINTER 2025

Kate Beaton

Reading from Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
7pm Tuesday, February 25
Room 10, Huggins Science Hall, 12 University Ave.

Luke Hathaway

Reading from The Affirmations: poems
7pm Wednesday, March 19
Quiet Reading Room, Vaughan Memorial Library

For more on these four authors including samples of their work see:

McCLUSKEY
https://www.elainemccluskey.ca/

MORRIS
https://tiffmorris.com/

BEATON
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/ducks/

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-kate-beaton-paid-off-her-student-loans

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/15/we-had-to-leave-home-for-a-better-future-kate-beaton-on-the-brutal-drug-filled-reality-of-life-in-an-oil-camp

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/kate-beaton-s-affecting-ducks-dives-into-the-lonely-life-of-labour-in-alberta-s-oil-sands-1.6669384

HATHAWAY
https://writers.ns.ca/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-luke-hathaway/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/luke-hathaway#tab-poems

 

Some of the notable authors who have visited us over the past few years include Thomas King, Sheree Fitch, Rawi Hage, and Budge Wilson.