Storytelling on the Digital Edge
Storytelling on the Digital Edge
Saturday, October 18, 2014 • 3-4:30pm
The Banff Centre – The Kinnear Centre Room 203
Tickets: $20
$18 seniors, students and friends of CJSW
Featuring: Kate Pullinger and Adam Sternbergh
Modern life in the digital age, with its clashing worlds and extraordinary connections, is on display in this afternoon of readings and reflections from award-winning novelist Kate Pullinger, who presents Landing Gear, and Adam Sternbergh, contributing editor for New York Magazine and debut author of Shovel Ready: A Novel.
Kate Pullinger is the recipient of the 2014 Anne Green Award and the author of ten novels, including The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Pullinger’s prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world.
Adam Sternbergh’s writing has been featured in several other publications including GQ and The Times of London, and on the radio program This American Life.
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