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Writing Resistance: In Conversation

With francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier

Thursday, November 6
2:00PM – 3:00PM (Doors open at 1:30PM)
The Carleton
$8.00

Description

How and why do we continue to make art in what feels like a time of total ungrounded chaos? Join francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier in a conversation that explores how it is vital to keep making art as resistance and response, as way of understanding and witnessing, as an ongoing act of hope. Presented by the University of King’s College.

Speakers

  • francesca ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story "Orun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel; it won the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers; was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2021, Butter Honey Pig Bread was named runner-up in CBC's Canada Reads competition.

  • Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist and the author of the memoir-in-essays Pass With Care, a finalist for the 2021 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction. His writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The Malahat Review, Ninth Letter, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Longreads, Narratively, BOMB, and The Rumpus; and in 18 anthologies, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, and the Lambda-nominated anthology, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction From Transgender Writers, which won a 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. He is a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow and has received fellowships and support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, the Access Copyright Foundation, RADAR Labs, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Port Bickerton Lighthouse Residency. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at University of King’s College and in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Saint Mary’s University.