Breaking Free: Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall, Tara Cremin and Polly Samson

Breaking Free: Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall, Tara Cremin and Polly Samson

1:30pm

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Zoe Whittall‘s The Spectacular offer new insights on love, artistry and the role of family in our lives. The Spectacular starts in 1997, and chronicles the struggles of a granddaughter, mother and grandmother as they strive for freedom from society’s expectations of womanhood. Join the acclaimed writer for a lively conversation about acceptance and rejection of societal norms, and paving one’s own way in life.

Interviewer: Tara Cremin

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Zoe Whittall‘s The Spectacular offer new insights on love, artistry and the role of family in our lives. The Spectacular starts in 1997, and chronicles the struggles of a granddaughter, mother and grandmother as they strive for freedom from society’s expectations of womanhood. Join the acclaimed writer for a lively conversation about acceptance and rejection of societal norms, and paving one’s own way in life.

Interviewer: Tara Cremin

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

This event has undergone a participant change. Please be advised that Polly Samson, originally scheduled for this event, can no longer appear. The event will proceed, with apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change.

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Reading

Featured Authors

Zoe Whittall
Zoe Whittall is the author of three novels and three volumes of poetry. Her third novel, The Best Kind of People, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is being adapted as a limited series by director Sarah Polley. Her second novel, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, won a Lambda Award for trans fiction, and her debut novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts, won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize. She has worked as a TV writer on the Emmy Award-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek and the Baroness von Sketch Show, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award. She lives in Toronto.

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Tara Cremin
Tara Cremin is the Director of Kobo Writing Life (KWL), Kobo’s independent publishing platform. She leads a team of book lovers who are actively involved in the indie publishing community and always looking for ways to help authors reach a new audience of readers. Tara hosts monthly live events for KWL with author and industry experts and you can sometimes hear her as a guest host on the Kobo Writing Life Podcast.

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Polly Samson
Polly Samson’s first novel, Out of the Picture, was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Award and many of her stories have been read on the BBC’s Radio 4. Samson has written an introduction for a collection of Daphne du Maurier’s earliest stories and has been a judge for the Costa Book Awards. Her novel The Kindness was named Book of the Year by the Times and the Observer. She is currently writing the introductions to new editions of Charmian Clift’s Peel Me a Lotus and Mermaid Singing. Samson has written lyrics for four number-one albums and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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1:30pm

Sunday, October 24

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