THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival will be visiting Brandon.
THIN AIR takes to the road in 2010 with four authors, acclaimed novelist, Sandra Birdsell and prairie foods author Amy Jo Ehman visiting Brandon.
Birdsell offers a powerful and compassionate analysis of a couple at their breaking point in Waiting for Joe.
Birdsell was born in Winnipeg, the fifth of 11 children, to a Dutch-Mennonite mother and a French-speaking Métis father.
Among her nine fiction titles are: The Two-Headed Calf, The Chrome Suite, The Russländer, and Children of the Day.
She will be reading Friday Sept. 24, 11 a.m. to noon at Clark Hall, Brandon University.
Saskatchewan food writer Amy Jo Ehman took on the challenge of eating locally for a year.
She’ll share stories, both serious and hilarious, from Prairie Feast: A Writer’s Journey Home for Dinner.
Ehman is a writer, speaker and forager with a taste for prairie foods.
She is a food columnist for the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Prairie North Magazine and CBC Radio, and has written for Harrowsmith Country Living.
She will be reading Friday, Sept. 24 from 11 a.m. to noon at the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts, Assiniboine Community College.