Morrin Centre presents

Imagination 2026 — Race Against Time — Panel

In-person Event

April 26th 2026

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm / Doors: 2:15 pm

Morrin Centre
44, chaussée des Écossais, Vieux-Québec, Québec, QC, Canada

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Time is precious, whether you are travelling through it or running out of it. In this panel, meet fiction writers Scott Alexander Howard (The Other Valley) and Jakub Szamalek (Inner Space) and enjoy a live interview and Q&A about their novels.

This event is presented thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers’ Union of Canada.

This event is included in the Festival Pass.

Refunds: No refunds
Exchanges: No exchanges

This event is presented thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers’ Union of Canada.

This event is included in the Festival Pass.

Refunds: No refunds
Exchanges: No exchanges

The Morrin Centre has no parking space. You will find metered parking in the surrounding streets and three underground parkings within a few minutes walk. Visit our website to learn more about parking options.

info@morrin.org

www.morrin.org/imagination

Scott Alexander Howard

Scott Alexander Howard has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his research focused on the relationship between emotion and memory. His debut novel, The Other Valley, won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer prize and was longlisted for Canada Reads. The novel has been translated into five languages and is being developed as a television series by Working Title Films and Universal Studios. Scott lives in Vancouver.

Jakub Szamalek

Jakub (Kuba) Szamalek is an author and video game writer. Born in Poland, he studied in the UK (at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar) and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote several best-selling and award-winning books, including the Hidden Web series—critically acclaimed in France and adapted into a major motion picture—as well as Inner Space, which was translated into English and French. Jakub is also the writer behind the international video game bestsellers The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, as well as the forthcoming Blood of Dawnwalker.