HPL Author Series - Lisa Moore

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Lisa Moore, author of Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen's Tireless Fight for Justice is interviewed by writer, editor and activist Susan G. Cole.

Attend a live reading and conversation with author Lisa Moore, who discusses their new book Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen's Tireless Fight for Justice.

The 45-minute conversation is followed by a 15-minute question and answer period. Check out the HPL catalogue to borrow the book before the event.

Invisible Prisons is a collaboration with writer Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen, who, as a child, was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, Newfoundland, where he suffered abuses and deprivations. He managed to turn his life around and became a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a lawyer to seek justice for him. Today, Jack's case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts.

Lisa Moore is the author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator, the story collections Open and Something for Everyone; and the young adult novel Flannery. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, been finalists for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize (February). Moore is also the co-librettist, along with Laura Kaminsky, of the opera February, based on her novel of the same name. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Susan G. Cole is a writer, editor and activist. She is the author of two books on violence against women, Pornography and the Sex Crisis and Power Surge: Sex, Violence and Pornography and is the editor of Outspoken, scenes and monologues from Canadian lesbian plays. Her play, the comedy A Fertile Imagination, about two lesbians trying to have a baby, was nominated for two Dora Awards in Toronto. The former books editor at NOW Magazine lives in Toronto with her partner and is also a grandmother of two.

Registration opens: August 23rd, 2024

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