The Grounding Power of Escapist Fiction

Speakers for this event

• Jadine Ngan

  Jadine Ngan

  Moderator

  Jadine Ngan is a National Magazine Award-nominated journalist and the digital editor at Maclean’s.

  Moderator

• Melodie Campbell

  Melodie Campbell

  Called the “Queen of Comedy” by The Toronto Sun and “Canadian literary heir to Donald Westlake” by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Melodie Campbell has over one hundred comedy credits, nineteen novels, and sixty short stories to her name, including The Merry Widow Murders mystery series and The Goddaughter mob caper series. She is the winner of ten awards, including The Derringer (US) and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. Campbell lives in Burlington, Ontario.

  URL www.melodiecampbell.com

• Sarah Raughley

  Sarah Raughley

  Sarah Raughley is a graduate of the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her current research concerns representations of race in popular media culture, youth culture, African and African diasporic cultural studies, postcolonialism, and global capitalism. She is also the author of the recent Victorian fantasy Bones of Ruin series and the Effigies series.

  URL https://sarahraughley.com/

• Tonia Laird

  Tonia Laird

  Tonia Laird is a Métis writer living in the heart of Treaty 6 territory, and a citizen of the Saskatchewan Métis Nation. Her work can be found in multiple publications, including literary magazines, fantasy and comic book anthologies, the AAA video games Dragon Age II and Dragon Age: Inquisition, the mobile game Everlove: Rose, and the interactive novel Poster Girl. Tonia works in the video game industry as a lorekeeper, writer, and world-builder.

  URL https://tonialaird.com/