Angela Sterritt will join Cherie DIMALINE, following her talk, for a short conversation.

Wed., Feb. 12, 2020Rm1400, SFU Harbour CtrDoors open at 6:30 pmEvent begins at 7:00 pm

Admission is free, but a reservation is recommended. please email: pubworks@sfu.ca

Diversity panels and half-hearted efforts at inclusivity haven’t brought the change our industry needs. If Canadian publishing truly wants to excel and uplift, we have to ask some difficult questions about who we publish, what we publish, and how we publish—and we must ensure that both writers and the industry professionals working to publish them represent the change we seek.CHERIE DIMALINE’s young adult novel The Marrow Thieves shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017, and stayed there for more than a year. It won the Governor Gener-al’s Literary Award among many other awards in 2018. Cherie was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excel-lence in the Arts in 2014, and became the first Indigenous writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, she now lives in Vancou-ver. Her most recent novel for adults, Empire of Wild, was named Indigo’s #1 Fiction Pick of the Year, and will be published in April in the US.

ANGELA STERRITT is an award-winning journalist, writer, artist and keynote speaker from British Columbia. In 2018, Sterritt won multiple awards for her cbc column, Reconcile This which explo-res the tensions between Indigenous people and institutions in British Columbia. Sterritt’s feature on missing and murdered Indigenous, women, girls and two-spirit people was nomi-nated for a Canadian Association of Journalists Award. She is now writing a book on the topic.

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RENO OR REBUILD?MAKING CHANGE AND FORGING CONNECTIONS IN AN EVOLVING CANADIAN LITERARY CULTURE

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