Sean Johnston
to Read at UNBF

October 3, 2006

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Sean Johnston
to Read at UNBF

October 3, 2006
UNB Fredericton News Release: D722
Tina English, Student Recruitment and Integrated Marketing (506) 453-4793

UNB creative writing graduate Sean Johnston will be returning to UNB to read
from his newest work, All This Town Remembers. The reading will take place
on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. in the McConnell Hall Senior Common Room,
University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Mr. Johnston was born in Saskatoon, Sask., and grew up in Asquith, Sask. He
made a name for himself with a collection of stories, A Day Does Not Go By.
Full of dark comedy and magic realism, the book won the 2002 David Adams
Richards Award for Fiction. In the judge’s statement for the award, Mr.
Johnston’s writing was said to be "reminiscent of Hemingway."

In his debut novel, All This Town Remembers, Mr. Johnston revisits his small
town Sasketchewan roots with a resonant story of a town dealing with the
death, 25 years later, of the high school hockey star. It is a startlingly
perceptive exploration of memory.

The reading is sponsored by UNBF’s department of English, the University
Bookstore and the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information on the reading, contact Ross Leckie at 458-7395.

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