Drawn to the Page: a webinar series
A three-part webinar series for young writers, aimed at developing your craft and purpose as an author.
On three Wednesday evenings in October, recent winners of the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award will discuss what pulls them to the page, and consider, in dialogue with their mentors, collaborators or award-winning peers, how writers respond to the social and political challenges of their time.
The webinars are free to attend. Registration is required. All are welcome.
About the Sessions
Bi-weekly on Wednesday Oct 1, Oct 15, and Oct 29 at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST
Oct 1: American poet Roger Reeves (Best Barbarian, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) and Bahamian poet Georgio Russell will discuss the challenges, and triumphs, of the artistic refusals and reinventions that transform a traumatic history of suppression, marginalization and erasure into literature.
Oct 15: Christine Wu (Familial Hungers, Brick Books 2025) and Larissa Lai (The Lost Century, Arsenal Pulp Press 2022) discuss the ethics of writing about ancestral and cultural history, balancing memory and research, and incorporating literal and emotional truths into their writing.
Oct 29: Riley Yesno (The Reconciliation Generation, Simon and Schuster, forthcoming) and Em Dial (In the Key of Decay, Palimpsest Press, 2024) will discuss the obligation of the writer to spur, stir, and bolster revolutions. They will consider how their respective genres – poetry and non-fiction – shape their choices in rising to these challenges, and how their desired audiences affect the writing process.
Each conversation will be moderated by a Canadian author — Esi Edugyan, Charlie Foran, or Ira Wells — and will be followed by an audience Q&A or crafting session.
Registration is required.
