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On Edge Reading Series 2021 | Brandi Bird, Emily Riddle + Jessica Johns

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Join us for a reading and talk with Brandi Bird, Emily Riddle and Jessica Johns, as part of the On Edge Reading Series 2021 season which highlights the work of BIPOC writers and marginalized writing communities.

When

Mar 2, 2021 6:00pm – 8:00pm

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Contact
Emily Carr Writing Centre | writingcentre@ecuad.ca
Open to Public?

Yes

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Join us for a reading and talk with Brandi Bird, Emily Riddle, and Jessica Johns.

About the speakers

BRANDI BIRD is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux and Cree poet from Treaty 1 territory currently living and learning on Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh land. Their work has been published in Poetry is Dead, Prism International, The Puritan, Brick, Room Magazine and The Fiddlehead. Their chapbook “I Am Still Too Much” was published with Rahila’s Ghost Press in Spring 2019.

EMILY RIDDLE is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. She once again lives on her own territories inamiskwaciwâskahikan. She is a researcher, writer, and library worker, who sits on the board of advisers for the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nations-led think tank based out of Ryerson University. Her debut chapbook poetry Ancestor and Exes drops this Spring.

JESSICA JOHNS is a nehiyaw-English-Irish aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. She is the Managing Editor for Room Magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series. Her debut poetry chapbook, How Not to Spill, co-won the 2019 BP Nichol Chapbook Award, and her short story “Bad Cree” won the 2020 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize and won silver at the 2020 National Magazine Awards.

The On Edge Reading Series seeks to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of ECU. The 2021 season will highlight the work of BIPOC writers and marginalized writing communities such as those involved in sex work, and those at the intersections of race, mental illness, disability, and queerness. We will showcase nine poets who are doing the freshest, most interesting, relevant work, and who are volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars.

Featuring:
JAN 18 - Cecily Nicholson, Hari Alluri + Junie Désil
FEB 9 - Amber Dawn + Justin Ducharme
MAR 2 - Brandi Bird, Emily Riddle + Jessica Johns
MAR 18 - jaye simpson
MAR 25 - Billy-Ray Belcourt

Curated and hosted by Mercedes Eng, and co-hosted by Vance Wright.
All readings start at 6pm PST and are open to the public.

Please e-mail onedge@ecuad.ca for the Zoom room link or if you have any questions!