Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of “best” friendships and their growing sexuality. Emelia Symington-Fedy’s narrative runs...
Spring memoir author: Daniel Allen Cox Author of the memoir-in-essays I Felt the End Before It Came, a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal. “I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s...
Cody Caetano spins a tale much like other Ojibway storytellers. Rich in metaphor, plot, and some very serious comedy, he keeps the reader attending to the writing. In his debut memoir, Cody Caetano – the son of a Portuguese-Azorean immigrant father and mother...
A tale of courage and conviction, Races is the difficult, yet inspiring story of the Jerome family: what propelled them in life, and on the track. The inside track on an under-told story about the intersection of race and sports in Canada. In the 1960s, Harry...
The first event in the series: Ali Hassan Comedian, CBC Radio host and Memoir Author As a comedian, Ali has performed for audiences across Canada, including on the cross-country Just for Laughs tour, Comedy Night in Canada, hosted by Rick Mercer. He has also...