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On Edge Reading Series: Spring 2024

Showcasing the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work

The On Edge Reading Series showcases the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work, writers who are also artists, volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars.

On Edge programming serves to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of the Emily Carr University Community. The series is support by the Emily Carr Writing Centre with grateful acknowledgement to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Coast Salish First Nations whose traditional lands we are on.

All readings are FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation is provided for all readings.

On Edge is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Tenaya. Logo and posters by Sandy.

On Edge on social media: Follow On Edge on Instagram to stay up to date.
For any other inquiries: Please email onedge@ecuad.ca

 

The SPRING 2024 SEASON features:

 

 

 

 

 

Adèle Barclay
Tuesday, January 30 at 6:30 pm PT
HYBRID session: in-person location in the Writing Centre OR register for online attendance through Zoom

Adèle Barclay (she/they) poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Pinch, The Heavy Feather Review, The Malahat, glitterMOB, PRISM, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry, The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and The Fiddlehead’s 2022 Fiction Prize. Their debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Renaissance Normcore was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award and placed third for the 2020 Fred Cogswell Award. They teach literature and writing at Capilano University. She is at work on a memoir called Black Cherry and a fiction project. Visit Adèle’s website here.
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El Jones
Tuesday, February 27 at 5:30 pm PT **NEW DATE + TIME**
ONLINE session:  Zoom Registration

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies in 2017. She was Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience. She contributed to the 2020 anthology, Sick of the System: Why COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary. Her latest book Abolitionist Intimacies examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Visit El’s Twitter account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nisha Patel
Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 pm PT
ONLINE session: Zoom Registration

Nisha Patel is an award-winning disabled queer spoken word author & artist. She was the City of Edmonton’s 8th Poet Laureate, and is a Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion. Her debut poetry collection, COCONUT (NeWest Press) was a finalist for the ABPA Regional Book of the Year. She is also a dedicated teacher, mentor, and public speaker. Her latest works include her disability chapbook, NOT A DISORDER (Gap Riot Press) as well as her co-authored book of erasure and multimedia photos How To Get a Thigh Gap with Bree Taylor (Collusion Books). Her next poetry collection, a fate worse than death, will be out with Arsenal Pulp Press in spring 2024. She is working on her first graphic novel focusing on lived experiences of desire and disability, and is querying her disability-focused children’s books. Visit Nisha’s website here.

 

Daniel Zomparelli
Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 pm PT
HYBRID session: in-person location in the Writing Centre OR register for online attendance through Zoom

Daniel Zomparelli is the author of Davie Street Translations, and Rom Com co-written with Dina Del Bucchia. His collection Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the ReLit Short Fiction Award. He co-edited Queer Little Nightmares with David Ly. His latest book of poetry Jump Scare will be published spring of 2024. Visit Daniel’s website here.
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This season’s poster (click thumbnail to enlarge):

Wordsmiths Creative Writing Club

Creative writers unite!

Come write, share work such as poetry and fiction, read and chat in this fun and casual weekly group! All levels of writers are welcome.

HOW TO JOIN:

• What: A club for creative writers–experienced or aspiring
• Who: All students, regardless of experience.
• When: Wednesdays, 4:30 – 5:30PM (starts January 17, 2024, for Spring 2024)
• Where: In-person in the Writing Centre (Library)

No need to register. Just drop by!

DISCORD: Wordsmiths is now on Discord! Join here.

Please e-mail writingcentre@ecuad.ca if you have any questions.

Wordsmiths art from Anoushka and Fatima

Faculty + Staff Writing Group

Get some writing done!

The Faculty + Staff Writing Group has been one of the Writing Centre’s most beloved programs. Every week, faculty colleagues gather to talk (a little) about their writing projects and goals; we then set timers and write, getting done in 90 minutes what can take hours without the accountability of a writing community.

• • What: Weekly writing group
  • Who: ECUAD faculty and staff
  • When: Fridays (Spring 2024), 10 – 11:30AM PT
    
  • Where: Zoom link

Please e-mail writingcentre@ecuad.ca if you have any questions.

Letter Writing Club

Bringing back snail mail

Join our Discord server for chats with fellow LWC members and to exchange letters with each other and international students.

HOW TO JOIN:

• What: A club for letter writers from all backgrounds
• Who: All students, regardless of experience.
• How: Join the Discord server to join the club (Spring 2024) and participate in LWC penpal and partner school penpals exchange programs!

Please e-mail writingcentre@ecuad.ca if you have any questions.

Letterwriting illustration by Cherry

 

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