Tariq Malik is Spoken INK’s Guest Author for April

• Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking glimpse into the past as author Tariq Malik reads from his recently published novel Chanting Denied Shores on Tuesday, April 19th at La Fontana Caffe, 101-3701 East Hastings St., Burnaby. Start time is 7:30 p.m. This month’s reading also features a slide presentation.


• Born and educated in Pakistan, Tariq Malik began his professional life by working/slaving for twenty years in Kuwait, employed as an industrial chemist, before emigrating to Canada in 1995. He now lives in Vancouver with his wife, and can be found hunched over a laptop when he is not out hiking or at work.


• Published by Calgary’s Bayeux Arts in November 2010, Chanting Denied Shores is a first novel set on the North American west coast during the pre-war period of 1914–1921, and the events surrounding the arrival of the Komagata Maru - a watershed incident largely forgotten outside the South Asian community. Rainsongs of Kotli (2004) a collection of loosely linked novella-length stories short stories was Tariq’s first book. Author website: http://www.tariqmalik.net/


• Spoken INK is a reading series presented by the Burnaby Writers' Society on the third Tuesday of each month (except July and August). For more information, visit http://www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com/ or contact bwscafe@gmail.com.