Jenny Heijun Wills (On Edge Reading Series: Fall 2024)

Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 5:30PM PT
in the Aboriginal Gathering Place
Livestream link: Register for Zoom Room here

Jenny Heijun Wills (she/her) is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir (McClelland and Stewart, 2019). It won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards’ Best First Book Award. Everything and Nothing At All (Knopf Canada, 2024) is a collection of personal essays about race, gender, literature, adoption, and kinship. Wills was born in Korea and raised in Southern Ontario. She is professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.

For more information about Jenny: University of Winnipeg profile

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

The Writing Centre presents the On Edge Reading Series, which seeks to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of the Emily Carr University community.

The 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. The On Edge programming serves to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of ECUAD. 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.

This series is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and currently assisted by Joanna.
Logo and posters by Sandy.