Welcome to the CreComm Reading Series...

WINNIPEG, Feb. 1 – on Friday, starting at 7 p.m., author Matt Duggan will read an excerpt from his latest novel – Cherry Electra – in front of a live audience at Aqua Books. He will be joined by Greg Berg, a second-year Creative Communications (“CreComm”) student who is currently working on finishing his first science-fiction novel.

Matt Duggan graduated from Churchill High School and he is delighted to be visiting Winnipeg to read from his most recent novel Cherry Electra. His previous novel, The Royal Woods, is a tall tale for children set in a new suburban subdivision of a prairie city. It was nominated for The Moonbeam Award and the Silver Birch Award.

Cherry Electra is about a dirty cottage weekend that culminates in murder. Quill and Quire call it “a satisfying bit of cottage-country gothic”, and the Toronto Star says it “has the delirious quality of a wreck recollected”, and claims that “it’s rare to come across something that is both so sadly astute and so infectiously, vibrantly witty.” The Globe and Mail depicts the novel as “a drug fuelled fratricide” and listed it as one of the Top One Hundred Books of 2010.

Greg Berg is a transplanted Saskatchewanian living in Manitoba. He is also an aspiring YA writer and full-time communications student upgrading his skills to reenter the working world. He likes CBC, PBS, IFC and enjoys making, and occasionally drinking, different varieties of wine.

The evening Aqua Books reading will be preceded by an afternoon reading at Red River College’s Exchange District Campus at 10 a.m. in room P107.

Event Details:
Date: February 4, 2011
Location: Aqua Books - 274 Garry Street (between Graham & Portage)
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (approx.)
Note: Mr. Duggan will be available for questions following the readings.

About the CreComm Reading Series
Red River College's Creative Communications ("CreComm") program is the training ground for Manitoba's professional communicators. The CreComm Reading Series curated by K.I. Press brings writers of all genres to Winnipeg. Opening acts are current and former CreCommers with creative works in progress.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.

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For more information, please contact:

Karen Press
Instructor, Creative Communications
Red River College
949-8316
@kipress
kipress.wordpress.com

The above is one of the series posters. If you spot one around, take a look!