Explore the project 2022 is the centenary of the first publication of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land. One of the most influential poems of the twentieth century, it – alongside other great works of art and literature from that year – ushered in a new age of modernism. Aké Festival, Bristol Ideas and Toronto […]
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Fathima Cader‘s writing has appeared in Guernica, The New Inquiry, Hazlitt and elsewhere. In her previous life as a public interest litigator, she represented workers and unions. She is writing a novel about Sri Lanka and the forever wars. She is currently based in Toronto.
Dr. Wendy Cukier is a Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management and she also teaches in the graduate program on Public Policy. As the Academic Director of the Diversity Institute, her work has focused on exploring discrimination, hate and violence against under-represented groups as well as strategies to promote inclusion. She is also […]
Jamie Chai Yun Liew is the author of the novel Dandelion. She is the recipient of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. She is also a lawyer, law professor and podcaster (Migration Conversations) who lives in Ottawa with her family.
Lori Fox is a queer, non-binary, working class writer and journalist. Their work, which focuses on issues of class, gender, sexuality, the environment and the messy places these things intersect, has appeared with The Guardian, Vice and The Globe and Mail, among many others. This Has Always Been A War (fall 2022) is their first book.
Maria Lassén-Seger works at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She is specialized in children’s and young adult literature and currently involved in a research project on the rise of children’s literature criticism and research in Finland (2022-2024). Lassén-Seger teaches, gives lectures and writes about children’s and young adult literature in both scientific and educational […]
Sang Kim is an award-winning author, chef, restaurateur and TV personality. He is a regular food contributor on three national CTV shows. His new TV show, Searching with Chef Sang, exploring the relationships between food, culture, personal identity and community, will air October 2022 on TLN. His third book, a memoir about food, memory and […]
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. She is the author of Wet Dream (Brick Books, 2022), Rag Cosmology (Book*hug, 2017), which won the AM Klein Prize for Poetry, and several chapbooks including Liquidity (House House Press, 2020). Collaborative performance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include […]
In 2022, the 15th edition of the International Visitors (IV) Programme will welcome publishing leaders from across Canada and around the world to take part in exclusive opportunities for professional development during the Festival. The IV Organizing Committee invites all who are interested in publishing, and love the written word, to join them for this […]
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels: The Latecomer, The Plot, You Should Have Known (Adapted for HBO as “The Undoing”), and Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name), as well as […]
Before leaving journalism for a career as a private investigator specializing in international financial fraud, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She has written several nonfiction books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including The Man from Pakistan […]
Diana Chan McNally is a community and crisis worker in Toronto’s downtown east side. As someone with lived-experience of social services and of being unhoused, Diana’s work focuses on human rights and equity issues for people who are experiencing homelessness. Diana is also an instructor in George Brown College’s Community Worker program, and has served […]
Geetha Sukumaran is a Tamil poet and a bilingual translator in English and Tamil. She has published two books in Tamil: Tharkolaikku Parakkum Panithuli (translation of Sylvia Plath’s poems, 2013) and her own collection of poems, Otrai Pakadaiyil Enchum Nampikkai (2014). Her English translation of Ahilan’s poetry Then There Were No Witnesses was published by […]
Nic Sammond is the author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (Duke University Press, 2015) and Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005). Nic’s current project, on abjection and resistance, includes the volume Abjection Incorporated (Duke University Press, […]
Lily Chu loves ordering the second-cheapest wine, wearing perfume all the time, and staying up far too late with a good book. She writes romantic comedies set in Toronto with strong Asian characters.