Conversations in Trust Halifax: Canadian Authors Make Sense of Our World
About this Event
Canadian writers create the connective tissue that bonds us — their insights inform our thinking on the issues that shape culture and their voices represent us to the world abroad. Authors tell stories of who we are and who we might become. Through the shared heritage of their books and the deep thinking that informs them, writers bring complexity and nuance to a time that needs them. Yet, the work of building connection is fraught with questions about how community can be held together when individuals hold disparate views, and misinformation and misunderstanding are weaponized to sow discord.
With 50 years of supporting writers as the truth-tellers of our world, Writers’ Trust of Canada believes that we need writers to help us navigate the future. Writers’ Trust beneficiaries of 50 years of literary programming will bring their ideas to stages and communities across the country with the goal of helping us see that, despite how it can feel in tumultuous times, there is more that connects us than divides us.
About our Authors:
Michael Crummey won the 2007 Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award and has been nominated twice for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. He began his literary career by winning the 1994 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. He divides his time between Kelowna, British Columbia, and St. John’s.
francesca ekwuyasi won the 2022 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. The book was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a Governor General’s Literary Award. She divides her time between Halifax and Montreal.
Naben Ruthnum won the 2013 Writers’ Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. He writes under his own name and the pen name Nathan Ripley, and has published a collection of essays, two literary thriller novels, a work of YA horror, a novella, and a novel. He also writes for film and television. Ruthnum is from Kelowna, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto.
Our Moderator:
Mary Lynk is the host of The K*ll List, a CBC podcast, and is a producer with CBC’s celebrated radio program IDEAS.
With 50 years of supporting writers as the truth-tellers of our world, Writers’ Trust of Canada believes that we need writers to help us navigate the future. Writers’ Trust beneficiaries of 50 years of literary programming will bring their ideas to stages and communities across the country with the goal of helping us see that, despite how it can feel in tumultuous times, there is more that connects us than divides us.
Agenda
🕑: 05:30 PM
Doors Open
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Talk
Host: Michael Crummey
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Reception
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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