IMAGINATION 2025: Graphic novelist wants kids to follow dreams at Imagination Danielle Burns danielle@qctonline.com French-born Sophie Escabasse lived for many years in Brooklyn, N.Y., working as an illustrator before taking…
Author and illustrator Sophie Escabasse got help from the audience during her interactive drawing workshop to create a tomato character who escapes certain death in a spaceship. (Photo by Danielle Burns)
Fantasy author Coltrane Seesequasis gave a writing workshop on creating compelling characters during the Morrin Centre Imagination Writers’ Festival on April 23. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin)
Mary Thaler authored an epic poem; Rachel Deutsch, a full-colour graphic novel; and Boum, a greyscale graphic novel. For all three authors, the format became an integral part of the story, not just a different way of telling the story. Linda Morra (far right) hosted the panel discussion. (Photo by Myriam Labbé) 
Moderator Béatrice Provencher listens as Nathan Hellner- Mestelman answers an audience member’s question at the Imagination Writers’ Festival on April 24. (Photo by Ruby Pratka)
Sommelier Bianca Thériault presents the Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon wine that she selected to pair with Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost’s bilingual poetry book La Belle-mère/The Stepmother during the Imagination Writers’ Festival. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau)
On April 27, the Morrin Centre
with Marc Garneau as part of the
On the table, there are delicious pastries from a local bakery, Pâtisserie Chouquette, a house tea called Domestic Chemistry, Garneau’s book A Most Extraordinary Ride, and a meteor rock for the occasion.
On April 25, literary enthusiasts gathered for Books and Games at the Imagination Writers’ Festival, organized by Noora Heiskanen, cultural programming co-ordinator at the Morrin Centre. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin)
Outfielder Justin Gideon, seen here at last season’s Frontier League All-Star Game at Stade Canac, is one of six veterans from last season who will return with the Québec Capitales. (Photo by Luc Lang)