September 24, 1pm EST: KWF Masterclass: Building Earths and Bending Genres: World-Building
September 25, 5:00pm EST: Fantastic Figures: the Magic in All Bodies. With Therese Estacion and Erin Ball.
Accessibility Information: The 2021 Kingston Writers Fest will take place over Zoom. Closed-captioning will be provided at all sessions.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the festival website.
September 25, 3:30pm PST: Diversity and Disability: Building Imaginary Worlds to Confront Issues of Social Justice. With Jael Richardson and Adelle Purdham.
Accessibility Information: The 2021 WORD Vancouver festival will take place online. All sessions will be close-captioned.
For more information and to purchase festival tickets, please visit their website.
I will be speaking about ableism in language and storytelling, and looking at how editors can integrate awareness of this into their work practice.
May 3, 8pm EST: Writers on Loss and Grief, with Therese Estacion, Amanda Leduc, and Kimiko Tobimatsu in conversation with Tanya Boteju.
Accessibility Information: All FOLD 2021 sessions will be close-captioned. The virtual platform for this year’s festival also includes additional accessibility features like text resizing, colour contrast, and screen reader capabilities.
All-access festival passes are $39 and can be purchased at thefoldcanada.org/register.
April 21, 7pm EST: Fairy Tales Retold: Amanda Leduc in conversation with Vanessa Moeller.
April 22, 4:30pm EST: When Nature Reclaims: Amanda Leduc and Pablo Strauss in conversation with Carole Chan.
Accessibility Information: The 2021 Frye Festival will be broadcast free on YouTube at @FryeMoncton. Closed captions are available through YouTube.
I’ll be appearing as part of this year’s gritLIT–Hamilton’s own literary festival. In 2021, gritLIT will take place entirely online.
Saturday April 17, 3:30pm EST: The End of the World As We Know It, with Premee Mohamed and Alessandra Naccarato.
Sunday, April 18, 3:30pm EST: Drafts & Drafts, with Gary Barwin, Jane Christmas, Denise Davy, Krista Foss, Dallas Hunt, Pasha Malla, and Brent van Staalduinen.
Accessibility Information: gritLIT 2021 will take place online via Zoom. Panels will have closed-captioning.
I’ll be chatting with Indigo Books about The Centaur’s Wife, fairy tales, and all things centaur and magical.
Accessibility Information: This is a free event hosted on Instagram Live. The video will be uploaded to IGTV, with captions, on the Indigo events Instagram channel after its completion.
Accessibility Info: This is a free online event. Further accessibility information to come.
I’ll be reading with celebrated author Krista Foss and Mary Lawson as part of A Different Drummer’s Book and Author Series.
Accessibility Information: TBD.
Join me and my work bestie Jael Richardson–author of the acclaimed novel GUTTER CHILD–as we discuss writing our magical and visionary worlds with author Thea Lim.
Hosted by Another Story Bookshop. Put on in partnership with Random House Canada and HarperCollins Canada.
Pre-order your books today through Another Story Bookshop.
Accessibility Information: This is a free online event. Closed captions will be provided.