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When: Friday August 7, 3:00 pm
Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ian Williams in conversation with William Ping on excellence in craft – what a treat! Thammavongsa earned her second Giller Award in Fall 2025 for Pick a Colour, which delves into the tensions between surface appearances and complex inner lives in contemporary Canada. Also a Giller winner, Ian Williams in You’ve Changed crafts a story about a builder who renovates his desires and turns his world upside down. Shortlisted for the BMO Winterset Award for Hollow Bamboo and a familiar voice from CBC Radio, host William Ping is a rising literary star.
SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Granta. Pick a Colour is her first novel.
IAN WILLIAMS is the author of eight acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including Reproduction, which won the Giller Prize. His most recent novel is You’ve Changed, selected as a best book of the year by CBC and Globe and Mail. He delivered the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say, about rehabilitating conversations in divisive times. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. Williams is a professor at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Creative Writing program. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
WILLIAM PING is a novelist and journalist, born and raised in St. John’s. His debut novel Hollow Bamboo was published by HarperCollins in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the BMO Winterset Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award as well as being longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. He has previously been published in ‘Us, Now,’ Hard Ticket and Riddle Fence. William is also known for his contributions to CBC News, where he currently is a producer of Here and Now.
