Exile Evening & Fundraiser

A Special EXILE Evening at the home of Nona Macdonald Heaslip on Thursday, October, 19 • 1 Edmund Gate, Toronto

• Attendance is limited to 80 people. RSVP required. Please email first to ensure availability on our Guest List: admin@exilequarterly.com • (Parking and TTC information at the end of this post)

Join us from 5:30 to 8:30 for an evening of Literary Awards and Fundraising at the beautiful home of Nona Macdonald Heaslip, in support of the distinguished literary and visual arts periodical, EXILE…and 50 years of publishing!

Pianist Kim Manning will play and be accompanied by that singer of moody blues and joyous hymns-to-life, Taborah Johnson.

At 7:00 the Awards Presentations will be made to the winners of the

Nona Macdonald Heaslip $15,000 Best Canadian Short Story Award
and the Dave and Ruth Lampe $3,000 Best Canadian Suites of Poetry Awards

Then the great jazz pianist, Joe Sealy, will be at the grand piano, playing in tandem with Juno Award-winning guitarist and singer, Dominic Mancuso.

Writers Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Susan Swan, and Anne Michaels will be in attendance, along with the magazine’s publisher Michael Callaghan, and EXILE’s founder, Barry Callaghan.

Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.

Please join us, celebrate, donate, eat, drink, and mingle at this wonderful party.

Admission is Complimentary with your Charitable Donation of $250

($250 per person for which you will receive a tax receipt)

First: RSVP is required (to be included in the Guest List at the door): admin@exilequarterly.com

Second: Donation by e-transfer to admin@exilequarterly.com ¹
or make your donation with Canada Helps ² at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-excelsis-group/

¹ for e-transfer: Auto deposit enabled – include the note “Exile Evening Party” when completing the transfer
² for Canada Helps: this is a registered charity that provides a donation service for other Canadian charities

If you cannot make the party, please consider supporting us by making a donation.

EXILE magazine is published by The Excelsis Group • Business No: 777897521RR0001 CRA Registered

The Musicians

Kim Manning and the band Zuffalo toured this summer to Western Canada, and to seven European countries including a performance at England’s Glastonbury Festival. zuffalo.ca (note: our invitation listed Louis Simão in this role, but he had to withdraw.)

Taborah Johnson is a Canadian singer and actress.

Toronto is home to many great musicians, but few so venerable as jazz composer and pianist Joe Sealy. joesealy.com

Dominic Mancuso is one of the most unique voices in music! dominicmancuso.com

The Authors

Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children’s books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. margaretatwood.ca

John Irving is a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter, most notable for his bestselling novels The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. john-irving.com

Susan Swan is an author, journalist, and professor who writes classic Canadian novels. Her fiction has been published in 20 countries and translated into 10 languages. susanswanonline.com

Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet with books translated into more than forty-five languages and she has won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. annemichaels.ca

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