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Coast Lines — Memorial University's Book Club —encourages alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends to connect through a common love of reading and of literature from Newfoundland and Labrador.
This year, as part of Memorial’s 100th anniversary, Coast Lines is celebrating the university's Creative Writing Program.
On Saturday, April 26th, Coast Lines presents a panel of esteemed current and former faculty members and writers – Mary Dalton (MA’75), Lisa Moore, and Aaron Tucker – who will discuss the intersections of Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador’s writing and publishing community and the 40th anniversary of the creative writing program. Moderated by writer, broadcaster and Coast Lines alumnus William Ping (BA '18, MA '20).
The Memorial University Bookstore will be onsite with various Coast Lines titles for sale and our guests of honour will be happy to sign copies of their books following the panel discussion.
The SPARKS Literary Festival was founded in 2009 by poet and professor Mary Dalton, who served as the festival's director for the first 6 years. Now organized by Memorial's Department of English with ongoing support from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, SPARKS continues to celebrate the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcase writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a "word spree." The festival also makes available displays of books and journals published in Newfoundland and Labrador and a mini-bookstore featuring works by the authors reading at the festival.
