AfterWords Literary Festival Presents Kim Echlin: Tell Others

The AfterWords Literary Festival presents critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin in conversation with journalist Evelyn C. White.  In Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil, Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. Tell Others explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination.  The conversation gets underway on Sunday, April 26th at 4:00 PM (doors at 3:30 PM).  Tickets are available through the festival HERE for only $10. Kim Echlin is a Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has lived and travelled around the world. The Disappeared was translated into 20 languages, won the Barnes and Noble prize and was short-listed for The Giller. Speak, Silence about woman and justice in the International Criminal Court won the City of Toronto Book award. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International. Author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN. Halifax journalist Evelyn C. White is the author of Alice Walker: A Life. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she was honoured for her thesis on "The…