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Eden Mills Writers’ Festival – Panel: Memoirs and Meditations
EMWF In Your Own Backyard Online Series EMWF Panel: Memoirs and Meditations Presenters: Madhur Anand, This Red Line Goes Straight to your Heart, Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body, and Bahar Orang, Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty Host: Laurie D. Graham, Brick Magazine Truth. Intimacy. Beauty. Queerness. Memory. Trauma. Body. Science. Poetry. Join Madhur Anand, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Bahar Orang as they introduce their startling new books…
Find out more »LiterASIAN 2020: “Race, Writing, and Virtual Worlds: how can we counter anti-Asian racism in a virtual world?”
LiterASIAN 2020 – “Quiet No More” A Festival of Asian Canadian Writing August 15 to August 30, 2020 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, LiterASIAN 2020 goes virtual! This year’s theme is “Quiet No More“. LiterASIAN 2020 features an incredible line up of authors with a full schedule of events. The festival is located on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish people. Race, Writing, and Virtual Worlds: how can…
Find out more »LiterASIAN 2020: “Remembering to Celebrate Our Chinese Canadian Legacies”
LiterASIAN 2020 – “Quiet No More” A Festival of Asian Canadian Writing August 15 to August 30, 2020 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, LiterASIAN 2020 goes virtual! This year’s theme is “Quiet No More“. LiterASIAN 2020 features an incredible line up of authors with a full schedule of events. The festival is located on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish people. Celebration: Chinese Canadian Legacies Chinese Canadians have…
Find out more »Eden Mills Writers’ Festival – Book Club: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
EMWF In Your Own Backyard Online Series EMWF Book Club: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Presenter: Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars Host: Vish Khanna Presented in partnership with: Idea Exchange Sign up for the EMWF Book Club and enjoy conversation with fellow readers in the lead up to our main event: a live discussion between bestselling author Emma Donoghue, and Vish Khanna. Registered book club members can submit their questions for Emma…
Find out more »Eden Mills Writers’ Festival – Showcase: Hot nights. Cool Poets.
EMWF In Your Own Backyard Online Series EMWF Showcase: Hot nights. Cool Poets. Presenters: CicelyBelle Blain, Burning Sugar, Sadiqa de Meijer, The Outer Wards, Mathew Henderson, Roguelike, Julie Joosten, Nought, Canisia Lubrin, The Dyzgraphxst, Randy Lundy, Field Notes for the Self, A. F. Moritz, As Far As You Know, Tyler Pennock, Bones, Rasiqra Revulva, Cephalopography 2.0, Kevin Spenst, Hearts Amok, John Steffler, And Yet, Lily Wang, Saturn Peach. In partnership with the League of Canadian Poets Heartbreak,…
Find out more »International Showcase of Poets Presented by the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and the League of Canadian Poets
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, is delighted to join forces with Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writers Festival to showcase Canadian and Australian poets for audiences in both countries. These two national poetry associations and highly regarded literary festivals will offer a virtual front row seat for an international celebration of poetry, happening on two dates in August. Lesley Fletcher, Executive Director of the League of Canadian Poets says, "This partnership…
Find out more »LiterASIAN 2020: “Anthology or Magazine? Writing and Submitting to a Literary Publication”
LiterASIAN 2020 – “Quiet No More” A Festival of Asian Canadian Writing August 15 to August 30, 2020 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, LiterASIAN 2020 goes virtual! This year’s theme is “Quiet No More“. LiterASIAN 2020 features an incredible line up of authors with a full schedule of events. The festival is located on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish people. Anthology or Magazine? Writing and Submitting to…
Find out more »LiterASIAN 2020: “Books of Inclusion”
LiterASIAN 2020 – “Quiet No More” A Festival of Asian Canadian Writing August 15 to August 30, 2020 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, LiterASIAN 2020 goes virtual! This year’s theme is “Quiet No More“. LiterASIAN 2020 features an incredible line up of authors with a full schedule of events. The festival is located on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish people. The Asian Literature Circle has been meeting…
Find out more »Kingston WritersFest 2020 Virtual Festival: An Evening with Thomas King
The Kingston WritersFest 2020 virtual festival takes place September 23-27, 2020, with more than 60 writers in nearly 50 events over 5 days! The festival will include the stories of women, the stories of Indigenous writers, writers of different experiences, cultural backgrounds, and orientations. An Evening with Thomas King: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm on September 2nd, 2020 Join Kingston WritersFest in welcoming back two festival alumni for a virtual…
Find out more »Eden Mills Writers’ Festival – Panel: The Creative Response
EMWF In Your Own Backyard Online Series EMWF Panel: The Creative Response Presenters: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Catherine Bush, Blaze Island, and Farzana Doctor, Seven Host: Nana aba Duncan, CBC The motivation to write a book is often deeply personal. These three startling new works of fiction have all been written in response to real-life subjects close to the hearts of the authors: decolonization and degentrification, the…
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