Meet the Writers!

Featuring:

Daniel Coleman author of Yardwork, Hamilton Literary Award winner in the non-fiction category and Kerry Schooley Award for the book “most evocative of Hamilton”. Yardwork meditates on the sedimentary layers of ecological, cultural and political stories that make up Hamilton, the escarpment city at the Head of the Lake. A fascinating book that encourages readers to look below the surface of their familiar surroundings.

John Terpstra an award-winning Hamilton author and poet, recently wrote

Daylighting Chedoke Creek. With elegant, seamless prose John Terpstra traces Chedoke Creek back to its source, searching through historical archives and walking up great storm drains that collect the water. Daylighting

Chedoke is a meditation on how urbanization and industrialization has buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks. Wednesday, January 23 at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.) Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, 44 Frid Street, Hamilton Please RSVP online at: http://www.thespec.com/hamilton-whatson/contests Or by phone: 905-526-3535 To purchase books in advance, please visit: www.specstore.ca Readings by the authors, followed by Q&A and book signing (books will be available for purchase at the event). Hosted by:

Graham Rockingham, Art Columnist