TAKE THREE CANADIANS, WITH TRISTAN HUGHES, TYLER KEEVIL AND CATRIN MENAI
3 JuLY 2025, 6 for 6.30PM
VENUE: PEN’RALLT GALLERY BOOKSHOP
Join us to celebrate Canada Week with an evening of Welsh Canadian writing, with Tristan Hughes, Tyler Keevil and Catrin Menai.
Take Three Canadians
Tyler and Tristan will discuss their fiction including, Boundary Waters, Shattercone, and Burrard Inlet and the influence of the Canadian short story writer
Gail Hughes
who lived in Bangor, north Wales but was originally from Alberta, Canada.
Catrin Menai is a writer and artist whose work is featured in Take Three Canadians. She is the daughter of Gail Hughes.
Organised in partnership with Books Council of Wales and Parthian Books.
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Gail Hughes on a road trip, 1960s, Canada
Tristan Hughes
Tyler Keevil
in partnership with publisher Parthian Press
Tyler Keevil was born in Edmonton, raised in Vancouver, and moved to mid Wales in his twenties. He began his career by writing stories and novels about the life he knew on the West Coast of Canada. His works include No Good Brother, Fireball and Burrard Inlet. The story in this book, Sealskin, won the Journey Prize, Canada’s most prestigious short story honour. He now lives in south Wales with his wife Naomi and their two children.
Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan in northern Ontario and grew up between Canada and Ynys Mon, an island off the coast of Wales. After completing his education in the UK he began writing short stories, winning the Rhys Davies award, and since then he has published award-winning novels set both in Wales and Canada. The story in this book, Up Here, won an O. Henry award, an annual prize awarded to the best stories published in north America. He is a reader in creative writing at Cardiff University.
Gail Hughes was an adventurer and linguist. She settled in Bangor, north Wales after travels in Europe and the Middle East. She began writing stories about her childhood and adolescence in southern Alberta, Canada in the 60s influenced by Alice Munro and Katherine Mansfield. They were published to critical acclaim as Flamingos, a year before her death in 2001.