Joelle Kidd Book Event (Jesusland)

Name: Joelle Kidd Book Event (Jesusland)
Start: 2025-10-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Joelle Kidd for the Winnipeg launch of Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture (ECW Press). Featuring a conversation hosted by Andrew Unger followed by a book signing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781770417793/joelle-kidd/jesusland
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/K-47AqYmKoo
In 1999, after three years of secular living in Eastern Europe, Joelle Kidd moved back to Canada and was enrolled in the strange world of an evangelical Christian school. In Jesusland, Joelle writes about the Christian pop culture that she was suddenly immersed in.
Through nine incisive, honest, and emotional essays, Jesusland exposes the pop cultural machinations of evangelicalism, while giving voice to aughts-era Christian children and teens. With care and generosity, Jesusland shows us how the conservative evangelical movement became the global power it is today by exploring the pop culture that both reflected and shaped an entire generation of young people.
Joelle Kidd is a writer, award-winning journalist, and editor living in Toronto. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in outlets including The Walrus, LitHub, Catapult, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and This Magazine. Joelle holds an MFA from the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing program. Jesusland is her first book.