Award-winning authors to speak at Creative Aging virtual series

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CREATIVE AGING BOOKS AND IDEAS

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Creative Aging Books and Ideas welcomes in 2026 with a stellar lineup of award-winning authors.

From humour, to memoir, and everything in-between, these free virtual events are guaranteed to delight, captivate, and thoroughly entertain attendees. Along with reading from their current books, each author will also be happily taking questions from you, the attendees.

On Jan. 29, Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, as well as an award-winning author of nine national bestsellers, will be reading from his latest book, The Marionette.

Jessica Waite, author of The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards, will be joining us Thursday, Feb. 26.

Part memoir, part survival guide, Jessica’s book takes a sharp, unflinching look at grief, resilience, and what it takes to rebuild when life knocks you flat. Jessica’s debut was a Globe 100 Best Book of 2024, a Washington Post Notable Book, and an instant national bestseller, earning Jessica a 2024 Doris Anderson Award from Chatelaine. Come for the laughs, the truths, and the company of others who may raise eyebrows at the audacity of this story.

Giller Prize Nominee, Joanna Cockerline, will be reading from her book, Still, on Thursday, March 26.

Joanna is a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner whose novel, Still, was long listed for the 2025 Giller Prize. Still was also named to the CBC Fall Reading List as well as to the 2025 Chatelaine Fall Reads. Joanna’s work has been published in numerous national and international magazines and journals, and in 2022, she was nominated for the international Pushcart Prize.

In what promises to be one of Canada’s most talked about books in 2026, Tara Gereaux will be reading from her new novel, Wild People Quiet, a taut, exquisitely crafted story set in 1940s rural Saskatchewan, exploring the repercussions of a Métis woman’s decision to pass as white in a small prairie town, on Thursday, April 30.

Its themes of identity, racialized violence, and bureaucratic harm echo sharply against today’s conversations about Canada’s past. Readers of The Vanishing Half, The Berry Pickers, Michelle Good and Tommy Orange will immediately feel the pull of Gereaux’s immersive, emotionally charged writing.

And at age 80, Dini Petty is back with a new show on The News Forum, Trailblazing Talks with Dini Petty, on which she explores conversations on resilience, leadership, courage, reinvention, and aging with purpose. Dini aims to honour inspiring older women and show that life’s purpose

continues.

Logging five thousand hours as pilot-in-command of a “pink” Hughes 300 helicopter, Dini was the first woman in aviation history to pilot a helicopter while simultaneously reporting on traffic.

Along with being a children’s book author, Dini is currently working on a collection of her poetry.

Relive your memories of watching Dini on TV, as you chat with Dini and Cece Scott on Thursday, May 28.

All events are held at 2 p.m., and are free, not to mention highly fun and interactive.

Go to Creative Aging Books and Ideas author events Winter and Spring 2026 – cecescott.com to register for your Zoom links and to read Cece’s reviews of our guest authors’ books.

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