Join award-winning authors Katherine Koller and Lynn Hutchinson Lee in collaboration with celebrated Toronto bassist and composer George Koller in an evening of readings, conversation and music at Free Times Café, Oct 1 at 7:30 p.m. George performs solo and also accompanies Katherine reading from Earthen and Lynn reading from Nightshade. Signed copies available, courtesy Ben McNally Books, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Katherine Koller lives in Edmonton and writes for stage, screen and page. Her books are Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays; Art Lessons, a novel; Winning Chance, stories, which won a High Plains Book Award; and a new collection of stories, Earthen (Great Plains Press), which includes her story Buckshot, a finalist in the Alberta Literary Awards. Katherine is a founding producer of Script Salon, a monthly new play reading series and the writer on Sustainable Me, a six-part web series. Persuasion, her adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen, will be staged this fall at Concordia University Edmonton. katherinekoller.ca
“The stories in Earthen are about quiet moments, turning points, taking accountability, and dealing with loss and change. Celebrating compassion and connection, these sometimes-tender tales show us that moments that may not seem momentous can still be laden with meaning.” ~ Lisa Timpf, The Seaboard Review of Books

George Koller is a bassist, producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and promoter and label owner: ZSAN Records (the zenith of science art and nature). In a wildly diverse and expansive career, he has performer/bassist credits on over 1600 albums in various genres and producer credits on at least 250 albums. George was awarded the HMV “fresh blood” grand prize, for his first solo album, Secret Space Program, and was voted 2007 National Jazz Awards “Bassist of the Year.” https://www.zsanrecords.com/georgekoller
“Drove around and listened to [Secret Space Program] …..It’s beautiful and simple and ~real …love the vocals…. it’s a very cool CD and you’re cool and the world is a cool place to be a cool person in.” ~ Marc Jordan (legendary songwriter/performer)
“I can hear the heart in you, in the heart of the songs. I give thanks for that heart, wherever it is found.”~ Jeff Bien (poet and writer)

Winner of the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction, Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a writer and artist based in Toronto. Her writing has been published in Room, Prairie Fire, Weird Horror, Northern Nights, Guernica’s This Will Only Take a Minute (winning the Editor’s Choice Award), Romani women’s anthologies Wagtail and Kin, and elsewhere. Following her debut novella Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens (Stelliform Press) and her novel Nightshade (Assembly Press) – shortlisted for the Guernica Prize – her new novella Eukarya will be published by Stelliform Press in 2027. lynnhutchinsonlee.ca
“With its layering of magic realism and its lusciously gothic sense of dread, Nightshade is somehow both uplifting and haunting – an enticing coming-of-age novel, and a nuanced and tender exploration of the Romany diaspora.” ~ Keith Cadieux, Winnipeg Free Press