CKCU Literary News
Wednesday October 22nd, 2025 with Hans G. RUPRECHT
Award winning novelist Kate Heartfield in conversation at Perfect Books with award winning author Premee MOHAMED about her novel «The First Thousand Trees», which is the final installment of a trilogy. It is published by ECW Press, Toronto (2025).

PREMEE MOHAMED is a Nebula-, World Fantasy–, and Aurora Award–winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, AB. She is the author of four novels, including the Beneath the Rising series of novels, five novellas and a collection of stories. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues. ♦️'The Annual Migration of Clouds' Trilogy, Book 1 & 2: 'The Annual Migration of Clouds' and 'We Speak Through the Mountain In this enlightening', award-winning series that shows the human side of apocalypse, Reid Graham navigates life in a harsh far-future Canada following severe climate collapse. With water and food scarce and the wilds full of dangerous animals and even more dangerous people, she leans into one of... More. https://ecwpress.com/products/annual-migration-of-clouds-trilogy-book-1-2?_pos=5&_sid=2913e7b66&_ss=r KATE HEARTFIELD is the author of several novels, including her latest, The Tapestry of Time, and the international bestseller The Embroidered Book. She has won the Aurora Award for Best Novel three times, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, World Fantasy, Crawford, Locus, Sunburst, Scribe and Ottawa Book awards. Kate is a former journalist who lives in Ottawa, Canada with a black cat named Minerva. Source: Perfect Books, Ottawa, ECW Press Toronto.