Ali Bryan is a creative nonfiction writer and the author of six novels including, Roost, The Figgs, The Hill, Coq, The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships and Takedown. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, won the Georges Bugnet Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for both the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and the Forest of Reading White Pine Award, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for both the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing prize, and has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures. Whatever – an anthology of short fiction by Gen X authors in which she is co-editing, is forthcoming from Dundurn in 2028. Born in Halifax, she now lives in Calgary.
Starring Holly Brickley, Bianca Marais, Susin Nielsen & Liann Zhang. Hosted by Ali Bryan
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