Author Archives: munday
Back 2 School
Like Rodney Dangerfield so many years before me, I’ve been spending a lot of time going back to school. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of spending the morning with Ms. Poirier’s Fifth Grade class at the Duke of Connaught Public School. The class had read The Dead Kid Detective Agency as a group and knew [...]
The Death of Geek Love
I’ve returned from The Hammer, where the gritLIT Festival treated me like a veritable king! Or a veritable Judy Blume! My gritLIT Festival events were amazing and the staff and volunteers were the best. I talked to about eighty students from three different classes at the Hamilton Public Library, during which I gave a short [...]
Hamilton Workshop Preview
In advance of my publishing workshop at Hamilton’s gritLIT Festival this coming Saturday (March 31), book and publishing website Open Book Ontario interviewed me (or rather, Open Book editor Erin Knight did) about what attendees can expect to learn (or not learn). Read this excerpt: Among the most highly anticipated events (aside from the rollicking [...]
Geek Love’s Paper Anniversary
Long-time (and long-suffering) readers of this blog (hi, mom!) will know I’m the co-organizer of a monthly Toronto event series called Geek Love. With co-organizer (and real founder) Emma Woolley, we’ve been hosting nights of geek-themed television at The Ossington (61 Ossington Street) for a year. We’ve screened nights of The Venture Brothers, Battlestar Galactica, [...]