Charlotte Gill’s debut collection of short stories Ladykiller was nominated for a Governor General’s award in 2005. In seven smart short stories, Gill navigates complex emotional terrain with gentle satire, empathy and wit. We emerge from these stories, as Gill’s characters do, with the magnificent feeling that we’ve narrowly escaped disaster. More recently, Gill’s contribution to Cabin Fever (a selection from the past six years of the finest creative non-fiction written by participants in the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre) provides insight to her eighteen years as a tree planter. Following a year as Writer-In-Residence at the University of Calgary, Charlotte Gill returned to the west coast where she’s working on a new book of literary non-fiction about the treeplanting life for publication in the spring of 2011.

Events featuring Charlotte Gill:

1. 1.Manuscript Assessment Program - Friday, July 16th and Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at the Community Centre (pre-school room).
   

2. 2.Main Stage Event (Starting Points: History, Imagination, Experience, with host Bill Richardson, also featuring Joy Kogawa, Deborah Willis and Jan Zwicky) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 17 at the Community Hall.