BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//YourSite//Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27683-0@www.visitcalgary.com DTSTAMP:20260428T042506Z DTSTART:20260528T010000Z DTEND:20260528T020000Z SUMMARY:Edmonton Comes to Calgary: Leslie Greentree DESCRIPTION:Edmonton Comes to Calgary\n\nLeslie Greentree in conversation w ith Julie Sedivy\n\nIn the spirit of deepening the literary connections bet ween Alberta’s two major cities\, this edition of our reading series show cases the work of Edmonton-based Leslie Greentree\, a writer who is brave e nough to turn a floodlight onto the aspects of our souls we’d often prefe r to keep in the dark. Join us for a reading and in-depth conversation in w hich we’ll explore how dark humour\, brutal honesty\, and emotional excav ation are the essential tools in her writer’s toolkit.\n\nAUTHOR BIO\n\nL eslie Greentree’s most recent short story collection\, Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For\, was shortlisted for a 2023 High Plains Book Award. An e arlier short story collection\, A Minor Planet for You\, won the 2007 Howar d O’Hagan Prize for Short Fiction. She is also the author of two poetry b ooks: go-go dancing for Elvis\, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Prize for Poetry\, and guys named Bill.\n\nLeslie is also an occasional ess ayist\; her new essay\, “Furniture Broken by Boys\,” was recently short listed for the 2026 Jon Whyte Memorial Essay award\, and previous essays ha ve been shortlisted for Writers Guild of Alberta and the Humber Creative No nfiction Collective awards.\n\nLeslie’s work has won CBC literary competi tions for short fiction and poetry\, and a Sarah Selecky Little Bird short fiction competition. She co-wrote the play Oral Fixations with her husband Blaine Newton\; it was professionally produced in 2014. She has also had an art show hung in an Alberta gallery\, a series of photograph groupings wit h accompanying text. Leslie lives in Edmonton.\n\nCONVERSATION PARTNER BIO\ n\nJulie Sedivy is a writer and linguist whose work straddles scientific an d literary worlds. Her book Memory Speaks (Harvard University Press) was sh ortlisted for two Alberta Literary Awards and was named by The Economist as one of the top five books about language in a “golden age” of language writing. Her most recent book\, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love (Farr ar\, Straus & Giroux)\, won the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize an d was a finalist for the Alberta Memoir Award. Linguaphile was listed as a Best Book of 2024 by The New Yorker and Kirkus. She served as the 2025 Auth or in Residence at the Calgary Public Library.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary. com/events/edmonton-comes-to-calgary-leslie-greentree\n\nhttps://www.facebo ok.com/events/792099853694247/ LOCATION:1302 4 St SW #100\, Calgary\, AB\, Canada\, Alberta T2R 0X8\, 1302 4 St SW\, Calgary\, Ab\, t2r 0x8 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR