Coast Lines: Celebrating Memorial’s 100th Anniversary
Saturday, April 26, 5-7 p.m.
Signal Hill Campus; online
Coast Lines, Memorial University’s popular public book club, will host a special event at the Emera Innovation Exchange (Signal Hill Campus) to celebrate the rich literary history of Newfoundland and Labrador and the role Memorial has played in fostering and shaping the province’s literary community. The event will feature a panel of esteemed current and former faculty members and writers – Mary Dalton (MA’75), Lisa Moore, Aaron Tucker – who will discuss the intersections of Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador’s writing and publishing community and the 40th anniversary of the creative writing program, in conversation with writer, broadcaster, and Coast Lines alumnus William Ping (BA ’18, MA ’20).
The celebration will recognize Memorial’s past contributions to a province with a rich cultural history, while simultaneously setting the stage for its continued impact on the literary world. Presented with assistance from the 100th Anniversary Fund and in partnership with the SPARKS Literary Festival.
Register HERE.
Presented by Faculty of Humanities and Society Sciences; Office of Alumni Engagement