Playwrights Canada Press and Glad Day Bookshop present Catherine Hernandez and Robert Chafe in conversation about their new books and more.

The event is promptly 6-8 pm as the bookshop has another event afterwards. Attendance is free, but books will be available to buy!

Catherine will be celebrating the release of her new book The Femme Playlist/ I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made Me, two emotionally unrestrained plays that paint a portrait of what it means to be a radical queer brown mother.

Robert will be celebrating the release of his new book Between Breaths, a poignant play about Newfoundland's "Whale Man" and the parts of ourselves we hold on to after everything else has gone.

Catherine Hernandez is the playwright of Singkil, Kilt Pins, The Femme Playlist, Eating with Lola, and I Cannot Lie to the Stars that Made Me. She is the award-winning author of Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press). Scarborough won the 2015 Jim Wong-Chu Award, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, the Evergreen Forest of Reading Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; and longlisted for Canada Reads 2018. It made the "Best of 2017" list for The Globe and Mail, National Post, Quill and Quire, and CBC Books. She is currently the Artistic Director of b current performing arts.

Robert Chafe has worked in theatre, dance, opera, radio, and film. His plays have been seen in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, and include Afterimage, Oil and Water, Tempting Providence, Under Wraps, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Robert has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, and won in 2010 for Afterimage. His first book of short fiction, Two-Man Tent, was released in 2016. Robert lives in Newfoundland.