Thursday, November 3rd, 4pm – Friday, November 4th, 12pm

Student Union Building, Evered Hall Middle (S1116), UFV Abbotsford Campus

This event may also be recorded for event archival purposes.

Panelist Program

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Doors open at 3:30 pm. Event starts at 4 pm with light reception to follow.

Keynote Speakers:

Jordan Abel – Award winning Nisga’a writer, including Un/inhabited, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. https://www.jordanabel.ca

Marsha Lederman – Author of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust Once Removed, and the Globe and Mail’s Western Arts correspondent. https://www.marshalederman.ca

Harrison Mooney – An award winning writer and journalist, and the author of the memoir Invisible Boy. @HarrisonMooney

Friday, November 4, 2022

Doors open at 11:45 am. Event starts at12pm with light refreshments served in between panels.

Panels:

Panel 1: Lie to Me: Truth and Fiction in Writing, (Moderator: Harrison Mooney), 12-1:30 pm

Gurjinder Basran – Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel Everything Was Good-bye. https://www.gurjinderbasran.ca/

Carlie Blume – Author of Gigglepuss, and a graduate from Simon Fraser University’s The Writers Studio @carliejblume

Alicia Elliott – Winner of the National Magazine Awards for A Mind Spread Out On The Ground and RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Awards.

Shawn Hitchins – A Toronto-based comedian, actor, and a prolific author. https://shawnhitchins.com/

Panel 2: The Fantastic & the Mundane: Symbolism in the Everyday Panel, (Moderator: Marsha Lederman), 1:45pm-3:15 pm

Tawahum Bige – A Łutselkʼe Dene, Plains Cree poet and spoken word artist https://tawahum.com

Curtis LeBlanc – Author of Good for Nothing and Little Wild. https://cwleblanc.com/

Annick MacAskill – Author of three poetry collections and finalist for various literary honours including the CBC Poetry Prize. https://annickmacaskill.com/

Isabella Wang – Author of the chapbook on Forgetting a Language and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.

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