CJLA Meet the Author - March

The Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards proudly present
A Meet the Author Event
Featuring Gary Barwin, 2021 & 2023 CJLA winner

Meet award-winning author Gary Barwin, learn about his different writing processes for The Most Charming Creatures (2023 CJLA poetry award) and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy (2021 CJLA fiction award),

hear excerpts read, and purchase autographed copies of these award-winning publications. Co-presented by the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Presented in partnership with The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies.

Join us in-person at the Miles Nadal JCC, on Zoom simulcast, or register to receive the recording!

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multidisciplinary artist, and the author of 26 books including: Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy (2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award – Fiction), Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime), and most recently, The Most Charming Creatures, which won the 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Poetry. His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Leacock Medal for Humour and the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Poetry), he is a four-time recipient of Hamilton Book of the Year, has also received the Hamilton Arts Award for Literature, and was one of the judges for the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize. His writings have been published in hundreds of magazine and journals internationally — from Readers Digest, to Granta, to the Walrus — and his writing, music, media works and visuals have been presented and broadcasted internationally. Gary discussed Yiddish for Pirates at the Miles Nadal JCC in 2016, and we are delighted to welcome him back this spring! For more information, visit https://garybarwin.com/

To purchase The Most Charming Creatures please visit: https://ecwpress.com/products/most-charming-creatures

To purchase Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/618198/nothing-the-same-everything-haunted-by-gary-barwin/9780735279520

The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University is Canada’s first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies. It brings together a vibrant community of scholars, teachers, and advanced students to promote cutting-edge research in the field. Since its inception in 1989, CJS has pursued a mission of not only fostering Jewish Studies research within the university but also enhancing the teaching of Jewish Studies. It is also committed to engaging the broader community and helping to prepare individuals for careers of service in professions related to Jewish Studies. CJS supports a variety of initiatives that help our students learn about the Jewish people in order to promote understanding of Jewish culture among the larger public. Its activities include visiting professorships, guest lectures, research workshops, academic symposia, public cultural events, student scholarships and prizes, and the building of a Jewish Studies reference and research collection. It also administers York’s Graduate Diploma in Jewish Studies and the Jewish Teacher Education Program, which combines a BA with a BEd, as well as works collaboratively with York’s B.A. Program in Jewish Studies. For more information, visit https://www.yorku.ca/cjs/about-the-centre/

Notes: Now celebrating its ninth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes the finest books with Jewish themes and subjects by Canadian authors in a variety of genres. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, including the Irving Abella Award, are judged by an independent jury, who this year have selected winners in the categories of fiction, biography/memoir, poetry, history, Jewish Thought and Culture, Yiddish, scholarship, Holocaust, and books for children and youth, as well as two special awards. This year’s award winners represent all parts of Canada and the world. They share their talents and insights in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Hamilton, Boston, Texas, Israel, and Australia. The Awards are administered through York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. For more information, please visit www.cjlawards.ca