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MEET AMI : APPEARANCES FOR THE WHITE SPACE BETWEEN

QUEBEC CITY, THURSDAY FEBRUARY, 4, 12:10 p.m. Ami will read, speak, and show a slide presentation about her lost, extended family on behalf of The White Space Between at Champlain St. Lawrence College (CEGEP) 790 Neree Tremblay, Quebec City. The event will take place in Room 268.

A FICTION WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG WRITERS Work intensively with Ami on developing your craft and your own portfolio of storires. Find out how to tap into your richest, deepest material and crack open your stories. Supportive peer critique and Ami's expertise will help you get to the next level in your writing. This workshop is open to Secondary 1, 2, and 3 students from any school. Held at Lower Canada College. Eight Weeks, Thursday afternoons, January 14th-March 4th, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Workshop fee $200, payable to the instructor. REGISTER NOW TO HOLD YOUR PLACE. Read more in the flyer.

FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH : AMI WILL BE GUEST AUTHOR. Ami will visit Westwood Senior High School in Hudson as guest author to read and discuss The White Space Between. She will be conducting creative writing workshops with Grade 9 and Grade 10 students.

NEW YORK CITY: Ami will read from The White Space Between at The Writer's Voice with the New York City novelist Joan Silber. The reading will take place at The West Side Y, 5 West 63rd street in The Little Theatre at 7 p.m.
For more information, contact http://www.ymcanyc.org/index.php?id=1531

U.S. A. The White Space Between is now available in the U.S. Watch this space for upcoming readings and events.


MONTREAL: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7:30 P.M. The Jewish Public Library. Ami will present The Paul Trepman Memorial Lecture on behalf of The White Space Between. She will discuss the creative tension between white space and black print, and between silence and speech, when honouring Holocaust Remembrance. Her talk will be illustrated with photographs of her lost, extended family and their home village. A reception and book signing will follow. Jewish Public Library, 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine. For more information, contact http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/index.html

Ami Sands Brodoff wins the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for The White Space Between: The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction. Ami will attend the awards ceremony in Toronto on May 25th.

NEW YORK CITY: Ami will present The White Space Between at the Jewish Book Council's "Meet the Author" event during their Networking Convention in New York City on May 31-June 2nd. She will be participating in The Jewish Book Council's Authors on Tour Program on behalf of The White Space Between for the 2009/10 season in the U.S.
Check www.jewishbookcouncil.org for more details.

MINNEAPOLIS: Ami will be interviewed on WRITE ON RADIO! KFAI RADIO WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 90.3 Minneapolis & 106.7 St. Paul on Thursday, May 7 at 11 a.m. about her latest novel, The White Space Between. She will also share an excerpt of the novel on air.

MINNEAPOLIS: Wednesday, May 6, 7 p.m. Reading, Talk, and Book Signing at The Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 South Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, contact: pmandel@sabesjcc.org

MONTREAL: Friday, April 24, 4-5 p.m. "Readings In the Afternoon" at Blue-Met International Literary Festival. Ami will read from The White Space Between and sign copies of her novel. Delta Centre-Ville Hotel at 777 University Street. Room: Versailles. Check www.bluemetropolis.org/Festival for tickets and details.

Montreal: Reading, Signing and Discussion:Thursday, December 4, 7 p.m.
Eleanor London Cote Saint-Luc Public Library, 5851 Cavendish Blvd, CSL, Montreal

Vancouver: The Jewish Book Festival: Sunday, November 23-26th: Reading, Signing, Panel with Edeet Ravel
King
David High School Tuesday, November 25,
Reading and Talk

Toronto: Jewish Book Fair & Holocaust Education Week: “Women Writing the Holocaust”: Panel Discussion & Book Signing, Sunday, November 2nd: 4 p.m., Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, Leah Posluns Theatre-4588 Bathurst St., Toronto

Quebec City: Champlain-St. Lawrence College, Thursday, October 30: 12 noon-Reading, Talk, Q&A, Signing, 790, Nérée-Tremblay, Ste-Foy, Quebec

Montreal: Thursday, October 23: Launch at Paragraphe Bookstore-6:30-8:00 p.m.

 
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