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Festival Of Literary Diversity
The Festival of Literary Diversity is an annual literary festival, which takes place in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2016 by Jael Richardson, the festival serves to promote and publicize literature by writers from underrepresented groups, such as Black Canadians, indigenous Canadians, Asian Canadians, disabled and LGBTQ writers, who are frequently overlooked by mainstream literary festivals. In addition to the main annual festival, FOLD also sponsors an ongoing reading series, Writers at the Rose, at the city's Rose Theatre. 2016 The inaugural festival in 2016 was headlined by Lawrence Hill, with other participants including Ian Kamau, Chase Joynt, Waubgeshig Rice, Farzana Doctor, Helen Humphreys, Heather O'Neill, Vivek Shraya, Zarqa Nawaz, Ayelet Tsabari, Cherie Dimaline, Brian Francis, Samuel Archibald, Zoe Whittall, Carrianne Leung, Dwayne Morgan and Patti LaBoucane-Benson. 2017 The keynote speaker in 2017 was Eden Robinson. Other participants included Kamal Al- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Festival
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing. Writers' conferences are sometimes designed to provide an intellectual and academic focus for groups of writers without the involvement of the general public. There are many literary festivals held around the world. Notable literary festivals include: Africa * Port Harcourt Book Festival, October 20–25 * Chinua Achebe Literary Festival, November 16 Asia Asia-Pacific * Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), held annually at Ubud, Bali in Indonesia (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) * Gateway Litfest, February/ March * Delhi Poetry Festival, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys (born March 29, 1961) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Personal life Humphreys was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Her brother Martin and sister Cathy were born after the family moved to Canada. She now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her dog, Fig. When she was younger she was expelled from high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education. Writing career Humphreys's first novel, ''Leaving Earth'', was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book in 1998, and a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award. In describing how she became a writer, Humphreys said, "I started writing when I was young and I just kept going. I read voraciously. I sent my poems (for I was writing exclusively poems then) out to magazines, and eventually I began to get them published. My first book of poetry came out when I was 25." In a very favourable review of ''The Reinvention of Love'' in ''The Globe and Mail'', Donna Bailey Nurse wrote: "The story is set a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Kamal Al-Solaylee (born 1964) is a Canadian journalist, who published his debut book, ''Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes'', in 2012. He is currently director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at Canada's University of British Columbia. Born in Aden, his family went into exile in Beirut and Cairo following the British decolonization of Yemen in 1967."Reflections on growing up gay in Yemen" '''', 20 May 2012. Following a brief return to Yemen in his 20s, Al-Solaylee moved to London to complete his PhD in English, before moving to Canada. He has worked extensively as a journalist in Canada, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson (born 19 January 1968) is an Indigenous Canadian author. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.Eden Robinson's entry in . Personal life Robinson was born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, and is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Robinson pursued her academic journey, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the |
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Patti LaBoucane-Benson (born February 20, 1969) is a Canadian academic and politician. A Métis, she served as the director of research, training and communications at Native Counselling Services of Alberta for nine years. She was appointed to represent Alberta in the Senate of Canada on October 3, 2018 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She currently serves as Legislative Deputy to the Government Representative in the Senate, a role she has held since May 2023. The purpose of this role is to structure debate in the Senate chamber on sitting days and help support the progress of Government legislation. She is the first Indigenous woman to hold a leadership position in the Upper Chamber. She previously served as the Government Liaison. In 2016, she won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature Burt is a given name and also a shortened form of other names, such as Burton and Herbert, or a place name. Burt may refer to: People *Burt Alvord (1866–after 1910), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwayne Morgan
Dwayne Morgan is a Canadian spoken word artist, motivational speaker and event organizer based in Toronto, Ontario. Morgan began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993. He is the founder of Up From The Roots Entertainment, which was established in 1994 to promote the positive artistic contributions of African Canadian and urban influenced artists. He received both the African Canadian Achievement Award for Youth Achievement, and the Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1998. Morgan has self-published two chapbooks and three full volumes of his poetry. As a producer, Morgan has now produced over 100 events, the largest of which are the annual spoken word concerts ''When Brothers Speak'', ''When Sisters Speak'', and the ''Toronto International Poetry Slam''. ''When Brothers Speak'' was established in 1999, and has retained its status as North America’s largest and longest-running showcase for black male spoken word artists. The event serves as a platform to cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrianne Leung
Carrianne Leung is a Canadian writer, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2019 for her short story collection ''That Time I Loved You''."Carrianne Leung wins $10,000 short fiction prize for 'That Time I Loved You'" , June 1, 2019. Originally from , Leung moved to Canada in childhood, and grew up in the |
Zoe Whittall
Zoe Whittall (born February 16, 1976) is a Canadian poet, novelist and TV writer.Zoe Whittall at The Canadian EncyclopediaZoe Whittall at IMDb She has published five novels and three poetry collections to date. Personal life and work Whittall was born in 1976 in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and spent her childhood on a farm on the outskirts of Durham-Sud, Quebec, South Durham. She graduated from Dawson College in Montreal in 1995, attended Concordia University from 1995 to 1997, and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph in 2009. She works as a TV wr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Archibald (writer)
Samuel Archibald (born 1978) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his short story collection ''Arvida'', which won the Prix Coup de cœur Renaud-Bray in 2012, and was defended by Bernard Landry in the 2013 edition of ''Le Combat des livres''. Its English translation by Donald Winkler was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Born in Arvida, Quebec, Archibald is a professor of film and literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He was formerly married to writer Geneviève Pettersen. '' La Presse
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Brian Francis (writer)
Brian Francis (born 1971) is a Canadian writer best known for his 2004 debut novel ''Fruit''. Career Fruit Francis' debut 2004 novel ''Fruit'' was published in Canada by ECW Press and released on May 4, 2004, ''Fruit'' is the story of Peter Paddington, a teenager living in Sarnia."Fruit: A Novel About a Boy and His Nipples" '''', May 2004. Overweight, gay and a social outsider, Paddington regularly retreats into an active fantasy life which includes his own s talking to him, and the novel traces his journey toward self-acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherie Dimaline
Cherie Dimaline () is a writer and a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario. She is most notable for her 2017 young adult novel '' The Marrow Thieves'', which explores the continued colonial exploitation of Indigenous peoples. Dimaline won the award for Fiction Book of the Year at the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival for her first novel, ''Red Rooms''. She has since published the short story "Seven Gifts for Cedar", the novel ''The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy'', and the short story collection ''A Gentle Habit''. She was the 2019 editor of ''Little Bird Stories (Volume IX)'', published by Invisible Publishing and featuring winners of the annual Little Bird Writing Contest run by the Sarah Selecky Writing School. She was the founding editor of '' Muskrat Magazine'', was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Awards for Excellence in Arts in 2014, and became the first Indigenous writer-in-residence for the Toronto Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayelet Tsabari
Ayelet Tsabari (; Petach Tikvah, Israel, May 24, 1973) is an Israeli–Canadian writer. Biography She was born in Israel into a large family of Yemeni descent. She studied at the Simon Fraser University Writers' Studio and the University of Guelph MFA program in Creative Writing. Her first book, the collection of short stories ''The Best Place on Earth,'' was published by HarperCollins Canada in 2013, and by Penguin Random House in the USA in March 2016. ''The Best Place on Earth'' was the recipient of the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize, the 2016 Edward Lewis Wallant, and was long listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2013. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Kirkus Review Best Debut Fiction of 2016, and has been published internationally. Tsabari's second book, the memoir in essays ''The Art of Leaving,'' was published by HarperCollins Canada and by Penguin Random House in the USA in February 2019. The book won Canadian Jewish Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |