One Book, One Community Waterloo Region

Two authors. Two points of view. One magical conversation. Every year we select one book to get our community talking! This years One Book One Community pick is Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow. Experience Waubgeshig Rice live in conversation with two amazing authors - Cherie Dimaline author of The Marrow Thieves on Wednesday, September 23 and Jesse Thistle author of From the Ashes on Thursday, September 24. Stream live through the OBOC YouTube or Facebook page. Wau...bgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. In 2014, he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling. Waubgeshig now splits his time between Sudbury and Wasauksing. See more

Do YOU have a question for this year's writer Waubgeshig Rice? This year’s live online author events are coming up quickly and we’d like to know what you would like to ask. Share your question in the comments below or LIVE through our Facebook/YouTube events on Wednesday, September 23 at 2:00pm and Thursday, September 24 at 7:00pm. You can also email your questions to One Book, One Community Chair, Laura Peacock, at [email protected]... Learn more at https://oboc.ca/ Photo credit: Rey Martin

This year’s One Book One Community LIVE events are happening soon! Share your questions for Waubgeshig Rice in the comments, or during the events on Sept 23 at 2 pm and 24 at 7 pm. Learn more at: https://oboc.ca/ #OBOC2020 #OBOC (photo credit: Rey Martin)