The Art of the Short Story: A Masterclass with Clark Blaise

Hosted by John Metcalf

In Person Fiction

Admission

Free

Saturday

Apr

7:09am

Eastern

Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch Auditorium

120 Metcalfe Street • Ottawa

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The Art of the Short Story: A Masterclass with Clark Blaise

He's one of those "genuine artists" Chekhov celebrated in yet another letter to Suvorin, the ones who know full well you'd best keep your eyes wide open.

The Georgia Review

The Meagre Tarmac is master storywriter Clark Blaise’s first new collection of short fiction in nearly two decades. A suite of linked stories about the trials and tribulations of several generations of Indo-Americans, these are stories of great literary and sociological import. Grappling with the changing nature of race relations in post 9-11 America and the spectre (and reality) of terrorism, The Meagre Tarmac is vintage Blaise. Join us for a taste of the new collection and an in-depth conversation on the craft of story writing.

The Authors

Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise, Canadian and American, is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime advocate for the literary arts in North America, Blaise has taught writing and literature at Emory, Skidmore, Columbia, NYU, Sir George Williams, UC-Berkeley, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the David Thompson University Centre. In 1968, he founded the postgraduate Creative Writing Program at Concordia University; he after went on to serve as the Director of the International Writing Program at Iowa (1990-1998), and as President of the Society for the Study of the Short Story (2002-present). Internationally recognized for his contributions to the field, Blaise has received an Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy (2003), and in 2010 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Blaise now divides his time between New York and San Francisco, where he lives with his wife, American novelist Bharati Mukherjee.