News and Readings

Saturday May 5, 2012

Winnipeg

Fictionista Spring 2012

McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park (1120 Grant Avenue )

Margaret MacPherson, author of Body Trade, and Alison Preston, author of The Girl in the Wall, are joined by fellow Fictionistas Arley McNeney and Sarah Kathryn York for a lively afternoon of readings and discussion. Hosted by THIN AIR's Charlene Diehl.

Margaret Macpherson is the author of Body Trade, Perilous Departures, Released, and Tilting Towards Joy. Alison Preston is the author of Cherry Bites, Sunny Dreams, The Girl in the Wall, Blue Vengeance, The Rain Barrel Baby, and The Geranium Girls.

Photos from the event

Charlene Diehl, artistic director of THIN AIR, welcomes the audience to the Winnipeg Fictionista event.

Alison Preston ends her reading from <i>The Girl in the Wall</i> with a cliff-hanger, leaving her audience asking for more.

Alison Preston ends her reading from The Girl in the Wall with a cliff-hanger, leaving her audience asking for more.

Sarah Kathryn York shares grisly details from <i>The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré</i> with the audience.

Sarah Kathryn York shares grisly details from The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré with the audience.

Arley McNeney gives listeners a taste of <i>The Time We All Went Marching</i>.

Arley McNeney gives listeners a taste of The Time We All Went Marching.

Charlene Diehl fields questions from the audience for the Fictionistas.

The questions keep on coming...

Alison Preston and Margaret Macpherson share a laugh as they dream up possible plots for their next books.