Events

An Evening with John Elizabeth Stintzi

Friday, November 8, 2024 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Past Event

Atrium & Streaming Online, McNally Robinson - Grant Park, 1120 Grant Avenue

Join us for an evening with acclaimed author John Elizabeth Stintzi as they return to Winnipeg to celebrate their new book, Bad Houses: Stories (Arsenal Pulp Press). Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Nora Decter, followed by a book signing. Co-presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.

From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas’s hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father’s pumpkin patch.

At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind. Present throughout Bad Houses is a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes. 

John Elizabeth Stintzi is the author of the novels My Volcano and Vanishing Monuments (finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award), the story collection Bad Houses, and the poetry collection Junebat. They are the recipient of the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the Sator New Works Award, and their writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Malahat Review, Kenyon Review, and others.

Host Nora Decter is a writer from Treaty 1 Territory. She studied creative writing at York University and Stony Brook University, and in 2019 received the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction for her YA novel How Far We Go and How Fast. Her novel What’s Not Mine (ECW Press) was published in Spring of 2024. Nora lives in Winnipeg with her partner and their two cats, near the foot of Garbage Hill.

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Venue

Plume Winnipeg