Nanaimo's Carol Windley will read from her Giller Prize finalist book of short stories Home Schooling Nov. 15 at Hills Native Arts Upstairs Gallery, located at 76 Bastion St.
The reading is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Home Schooling, published by Cormorant Books, is among the five finalists for the Giller Prize.
This prize which is dedicated to celebrating the best in 91原创 fiction each year, awards $40,000 to the author of the best novel or short story collection published in English and $2500 to each of the finalists.
Windley is the author of the award-winning collection of short stories Visible Light, and the acclaimed novel, Breathing Under Water.
Visible Light, her debut collection, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the B. C. Book Prizes, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; in Seattle in 1993 it won the Bumbershoot/Weyerhauser Publication Award.
Her fiction has been published in literary magazines across Canada, including The Malahat Review, Event Magazine, and Descant.
In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows."
Windley was born on 91原创 Island and used to teach at Malaspina University-College.
Windley won't find out if Home Schooling won this year's Giller Prize until next week.
This year's Giller Prize winners will be broadcast on CTV live on Nov. 7.