Place: A Reading
ABOUT THE EVENT
Notions of “place” play an undeniable role in storytelling and in our lives. Places -large and small- shape language, identity, perception and experience. You are warmly invited to a reading by five writers whose new books explore place in a variety of ways that go beyond setting or backdrop and explore the intricate relationships between body, identity, boundaries and place.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kate Black's essays have been published in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and Maisonneuve. In 2020, she was selected as one of Canada's top emerging voices in non-fiction by the RBC Taylor Prize and the National Magazine Awards. She grew up in St. Albert, AB and lives in Vancouver. Her non-fiction debut, Big Mall: Shopping for Meaning was published by Coach House Books in February 2024.
Leanne Dunic is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, a mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent project is a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled, Wet (Talonbooks 2024). Leanne lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Loghan Paylor is a queer, trans author who lives in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Their short fiction and essays have previously appeared in Room and Prairie Fire, among others. Paylor is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU, and of the Masters in creative writing program at UBC. Their debut novel, “The Cure for Drowning”, a Canadian bestseller in LGBTQ+ fiction, was long-listed for the Giller prize, and has been included in dozens of book club picks, library recommendations, and top historical fiction and queer book lists.
Tania De Rozario is a writer, visual artist and the author of four books. Her latest collection, Dinner on Monster Island, has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine), “unique” (Publishers Weekly), “a book with resonance” (Kirkus Reviews), "elegant", "droll" and "magnetic" (British Columbia Review).Tania’s writing has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020) and the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest (2021), has been a finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards (2021) and has been published in journals/anthologies across four continents.
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a queer Chinese diaspora writer, poet, Chinese-English translator, and editor. Her debut collection of translated poetry and essays on translation, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024), has been described by reviewers as “exceptional” (Quill & Quire, starred review), “stunning” (Book Riot), a “gift” and “labor of love” (The Miramichi Reader), and “careful work and keen commentary” (Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation). Her writing and translations have appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Words Without Borders, The Tyee, Room, Canthius, and elsewhere. She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Award in poetry, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for the Aurora Award.
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Photo of Yilin Wang by Divya Kaur