Kevin Hardcastle's Blog

hey everybody. in two days I'm going festing. starting at WordFest Calgary, with a stop for the Kevin Hardcastle "In the Cage" Book Launch at Audrey's Books in Edmonton, before moving on to Whaletown and Vancouver Writers Fest.
there are more things coming as well. but here is a list of all my festival events, in order:

CALGARY WORDFEST

Fri, Oct. 13 @ 9:15pm: Late Night Series: The Third Pint Of Beer
with Joey Comeau & Ed O' Loughlin (host Eric Volmers)

Sat, Oct. 14 @ 1pm: Saturday Afternoon Showcase: Timely & Tasty Short Fiction
with Eliza Robertson, Deborah Willis, & more (host Michael Hingston)

EDMONTON

Tues, Oct 17 @ 7pm:
Kevin Hardcastle "In the Cage" Book Launch
(host Diana Davidson)

VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST

Fri, Oct 20 @ 10:00am: Writing Canada
with Angie Abdou, Fanny Britt, Maia Caron (host Merilyn Simonds)

Sat, Oct 21 @ 10:30am: Let's Talk About Class
with David Chariandy & Matthew Dickman (host Angie Abdou)

you can find more info on all the fests below. there are billions of amazing authors attending. including folks like Zoe Whittall, Andrew Pyper, Grace O'Connell, Melanie Mah, Nick Cutter (Craig Davidson), Dina Del Bucchia, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Ayelet Tsabari, Cherie Dimaline, and my fellow CBC Short Story Prize jurors, Eden Robinson & Heather O'Neill. a majestic ten days awaits...

http://wordfest.com/
http://writersfest.bc.ca/

Dear Americans. Today is the official release date for my collection of short stories, Debris. Published here in Canada this past September, by Biblioasis. I know that some of you have circumvented international literary boundaries and got it direct before today. But, now everyone else will be able to achieve a copy as well, even possibly from physically walking into a store of books and picking it up off a shelf. Or, more likely, telling the clerk to order one while they judge you…

There isn’t much in the way of US press or anything on this one yet. And by not much, I mean pretty much none whatsoever. But at least it exists worldwide now (I believe), and will be available in bookstores and libraries so that people can see what it might look like if Daniel Woodrell or Cormac McCarthy were a few decades younger and knew of snowmobile crime families and gravel pit fights out near Port McNicoll.

I did manage to get a playlist done for Largehearted Boy, the excellent music/literary site run by David Gutowski out of New York. He does one hell of a job putting up content from emerging and established authors, like Sarah Gerard, Nancy Jo Cullen, Audrey Niffenegger, Bret Easton Ellis, and Aimee Bender. I’ve mentioned that I write to music always, and I tried to get all the Drive-By Truckers I could in there. Of course, it got way out of hand. But that’ll be up on February 15th.

If anything else happens, or if I ever have plans to get down to the US, I’ll let everyone know. Until then, thanks for the support on both sides of the 49th parallel.

Hardcastle

Starting today, in Guelph, I’ll be going on a little mini-tour with Jess Taylor (author of Pauls, BookThug) and Andrew Battershill (author of Pillow, Coach House Books). Me and Jess are going to be reading tonight, and then the three of us will be at all of the other towns together. Here is where and what they all are:

The Bookshelf presents an evening with Kevin Hardcastle, author of Debris (Biblioasis) & Jess Taylor, author of Pauls (BookThug) – Guelph, Ontario – October 15th: https://www.facebook.com/events/53577...

Reading at Epic Books – Hamilton, Ontario – October 20th: https://www.facebook.com/events/53417...

Reading at the London Public Library – Landon Branch – London, Ontario – October 22nd: https://www.facebook.com/events/73573...

Reading at Novel Idea – Kingston, Ontario – October 28th: https://www.facebook.com/events/52310...

Reading at Octopus Books – Ottawa, Ontario – October 29th: https://www.facebook.com/events/41852...

If any of that interests anybody, or if you know anybody in those towns who like readings, please spread the word if you could. It would be much appreciated by all us writers and our publishers.

I’ll also be doing a reading in Toronto, at the Pivot Reading Series, on October 21st, with George Murray & Meira Cook. That should be a good one:
https://www.facebook.com/events/48362...

Any other reading/events that I’m at will get posted soon as I can. Until then, thanks for the support, and for reading my work.

Cheers.

Hardcastle
Kevin Hardcastle
Jess Taylor
Andrew Battershill