Shandi Mitchell
September 20, 2019
Shandi Mitchell Reading
The AX Reading and Workshop Series is proud to present award-winning author Shandi Mitchell on September 20 and 21, 2019.
Shandi will read from her novel The Waiting Hours on Friday, September 20, at 7:00 p.m., and her reading will be followed by a question and answer period.
Shandi’s reading is in memory of Susan Kathleen Leyden, long-time supporter of the Lorenzo Society, and is sponsored by Douglas Leyden in partnership with the Lorenzo Society.
See more information about Shandi’s writing workshop, Creating Characters Inside Out.
About Shandi Mitchell
Shandi Mitchell is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and director. Her novel, The Waiting Hours (2019) was recently launched with Penguin Canada and was tagged by CBC Books as one of 28 Books to Watch for in 2019. Her debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky (2009) was simultaneously published by Penguin Canada, Harper Collins US, and Weidenfeld & Nicholson UK, with translations in Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch, and Italian. The book earned several prizes including the Kobzar Literary Prize, Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and the Regional Commonwealth Fiction Prize, and was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Mitchell has served as a WFNS mentor and adjunct professor of Advanced Creative Writing-Fiction at Dalhousie University. She has also been a story consultant for the NFB, AFCOOP, and Equinox Europe’s International Screenwriters workshop. Born in New Brunswick and raised in Alberta, Shandi now lives in Nova Scotia.