Junction Reads November 22 at TYPE

In person event with Heidi von Palleske, Mary Lou Dickinson and Brent van Staalduinen.

Event starts at 6:30pm ET.

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PWYC. All proceeds support the authors this season.

Mary Lou Dickinson (she/her) lives in Toronto, Ontario with a tree at her apartment window as reminder of her northern roots in a frontier Quebec mining town. She enjoyed a varied career that ended as a telephone crisis counsellor for assaulted women. Always writing as well, with a number of short stories published in literary periodicals, she has been able to devote her retirement to writing. Her first book was published at age 70. Her first published piece, at age 6, was a poem in her grandmother’s food column in the Toronto Telegram. She now has six published books - two novels, one mystery, two collections of short stories and her recent memoir. As well, even with new health issues, at 89 she has another short story collection almost ready to submit. And is also pondering a novel after a character appeared in the middle of the night and demanded her attention. Late Bloomer is her memoir.

Brent van Staalduinen is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Peace Thieves, Unthinkable, Nothing But Life, and Boy, the story collection Cut Road, and the forthcoming thriller Do Not Count the Days. His stories have appeared in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and have won the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Fiddlehead Best Fiction Award, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, and numerous other accolades. He lives, writes, and teaches in Hamilton. For more information about Brent and his writing, visit www.brentvans.com and follow him on social media (@brentvans).

Heidi von Palleske is a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter, and actor whose work spans literature, film, and television. Her latest novel, The Lost Queen (2026), is the second installment of The Glass Eye Trilogy, following the acclaimed Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack, a LOANSTARS Top 10 Pick and finalist for the Foreword Reviews Award for Best Literary Novel in North America (2021). Her first novel, They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore, won the H.R. Percy Award for Best Novel Manuscript in Eastern Canada. In addition to her novels, Heidi has written more than 400 sonnets and is currently at work on the third book in The Glass Eye Trilogy, as well as projects for both film and television. Her fiction blends literary storytelling with mystery, history, and the uncanny, exploring memory, identity, and the invisible threads that connect our lives. As an actor, Heidi has appeared in nearly sixty film and television productions, with leading and featured roles in films including Bordello, My Animal, and the upcoming thriller Body in the Trunk. But many audiences still remember her best for dancing between two Jeremy Irons in David Cronenberg's iconic Dead Ringers—a scene that has become a small piece of Canadian film history.