Events

2018

June 23: Victoria
Victoria Public Library, Oak Bay Branch, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Readings by Love Me True contributors Yasuko Thanh, Ellen McGinn, Fiona Tinwei Lam and me.
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May 3: Toronto
Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, 6 - 8 p.m. An evening of readings & conversation with Love Me True contributors Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, Susan Olding, Maureen Harris, Samra Zafar, Lauren McKeon, Donna Besel, Maureen Hynes, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Gina Leola Woolsey, and editors Fiona Tinwei Lam and Jane Silcott.

February 28: Vancouver
The Vancouver launch of Love Me True, Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of Marriage at the Heatley, 696 Hastings Street, Vancouver.  Readers included Chelene Knight, Betsy Warland, Ellen McGinn, Luanne Armstrong, Monica Meneghetti, Tana Runyan, Evelyn Lau, Gina Leola Woolsey, Lesley Buxton, Monica Meneghetti, Jane Munro, Rob Taylor, and Tana Runyan.  

February 14: Vancouver
Vancouver Writers Festival Incite series at the Vancouver Public Library at 350 West Georgia St with Mandy Len Catron, author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone; Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-A-Nova and Neil Young Nation; and my fellow editor, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and me.

2016

CBC Literary Prizes & The Flame
Storytelling at The Fox Cabaret with Amanda Parris (CBC's The Exhibitionists), STARS frontman Torquil Campbell, and others telling true stories on the theme of "Fates and Free Wills - Destiny, Determination and Dumb Luck" for a new digital series on CBC. Listen here. 

2015

Kwantlen University Reading Series

Pop-up reading at Writing True, Creative Nonfiction Collective Annual Conference; Moderator, panel with Susan Olding, Judy McFarlane, Carol Shaben.

Geist Writing from Life Workshop
Writing workshop at SFU Harbour Centre.

Words Thaw Literary Symposium, University of Victoria: “Natural Divide or Shape-Shifting Chic: Negotiating Creative Nonfiction’s Extremes," panel discussion with Fiona Tinwei Lam and Mark Leiren-Young, moderated by Lynne Van Luven.

Writing Women: New Work in Poetry & Prose
Reading and conversation with Lorri Neilsen Glenn and Fiona Tinwei Lam at the Historic Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver.

2014

November: The Victoria Writers’ Festival  
“Writing the Unsayable,” Readings and a panel discussion with Karen Enns and Eve Joseph about courage, writing, loss and love. Host: Anne Giardini

November: Toronto Book Group
Reading and talking about essays with poet Susie Petersiel Berg’s Toronto Book Group.

September: The Real Vancouver Writers’ Series
Reading with Angie Abdou, Jackie Bateman, Wayde Compton, Alexandra Leggatt and Vivek Shraya, sponsored by Anvil Press & Arsenal Pulp Press and hosted by Sean Cranbury and Dina Del Bucchia.

CFUV Radio: U in the Ring with Jane Silcott & Ashley Little. LISTEN.

The Ontario Tour 
  • LitLive Reading Series, Hamilton
  • Rowers Reading Series, at Measure, Toronto
  • Novel Idea Books with Susan Olding, Kingston
  • In/Words Reading Series, Ottawa

2013

Vancouver Public Library 
“Pushing the Boundaries: Women, Memoir & the Radical Essay,” Panel discussion with Fiona Tinwei Lam, Cathy Stonehouse, and Kate Braid

The Whistler Readers & Writers Festival
Memoir workshop and panel discussion with Lisa Moore, Richard Wagamese, Meg Tilley, Genni Gunn, Sue Oakey Baker

Alberta Reading Tour with Marita Dachsel and Jennica Harper: Pages Books, Calgary; Sun Works Home & Garden, Red Deer; Audrey’s Books, Edmonton

Stories on a Summer Night, UBC with Alison Acheson

The Anvil Press Launch Party, Railway Club, Vancouver, with Mari-Lou Rowley and Marita Dachsel 

Russell Books Victoria, BC, with Marita Dachsel and Mari-Lou Rowley

The Stranger Than Fiction Creative Nonfiction Cabaret, Cafe Mariposa, Montreal with David Waltner-Toews, Maria Schamis Turner, Kitty Hoffman, Susan Olding, Julija Sukys, Taras Grescoe, and Mark Abley

“Smitten by the Written,” CJSF Radio, 90.1 FM  Conversation with David Mayoh
Previous events include panels and readings at UBC, Word on the Street, the University of the Fraser Valley, the Short Line Reading Series and the Contemporary Art Gallery.