FALL 2016 READINGS

The following list includes events that are sponsored or co-sponsored by Capilano University Creative Writing, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the Canada Council for the Arts. All events are free and everyone can attend. 

 

Danielle LaFrance: Thursday, October 20, 1:00-2:20pm

Capilano U, LB 216

Danielle LaFrance is a poet, librarian, and independent scholar. She is the author of Friendly Fire (2016), Species Branding (2013) and the chapbook Pink Slip (2013). Between 2012-2016, she organized the feminist materialist collective and journal series About a Bicycle.

 

Emily Pohl-Weary: Thursday, November 3, 11:30am-12:50pm

Capilano U, Fir 503

Emily Pohl-Weary's latest book is the poetry collection Ghost Sick (2015). Her previous books include the novel Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, a Hugo Award-winning biography, a female superhero anthology, and a girl pirate comic. This reading is co-sponsored by Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

Pamela Mordecai: Thursday, November 17, 11:30am-12:50pm

Capilano U, Fir 503

Ontario-based Pamela Mordecai grew up in Jamaica, and has written stories, poems, children's literature, textbooks, and novels, including Red Jacket (2015), as well as edited acclaimed anthologies on Caribbean literature. This reading is co-sponsored by Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Canada Council for the Arts.