A Community of Readers and Writers

Linda Leith is the Montreal novelist and essayist who created Blue Metropolis Foundation in 1997; the first Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival took place in 1999 and soon put Montreal on the literary map of the world. An activist in Montreal’s literary community since the mid-1980s, she revitalized Matrix magazine in the late 1980s, was fiction editor for Véhicule Press, and was involved in the creation of QSPELL and its successor, Quebec Writers’ Federation.

Since resigning as Founder and Artistic Director of Blue Metropolis after fourteen years in late 2010, she has created a new literary house, Linda Leith Publishing, which publishes half a dozen titles annually in print and electronic form. LLP books are mostly literary fiction and trade non-fiction, including a number of books by emerging authors (including Peter Kirby’s crime novels, Felicia Mihali’s The Darling of Kandahar, and Jennifer Quist’s Love Letters of the Angels of Death), short essays on current issues (by Rick Salutin, Wade Rowland, and Stephen Henighan) and cartoon books by Terry Mosher (Aislin). In Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis (Signature 2010; Leméac, 2014) she tells the story of how Montreal’s literary community has evolved.

Linda will be offering some of her books for sale at the end of the evening (cash or cheques only).

Door prize: Book: Tickets $5 each; 3 tickets for $10.

Non-members $50.00, including wine (please pay by cheque to UWCM); Guest cover charge: $5.00

Please reserve with the Club by Monday, March 17