Heart-shaped Letters: Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote and Robert Wiersema

Heart-shaped Letters: Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote and Robert Wiersema

8:00pm

Friday, October 29, 2021

After spending years on the road, telling stories on numerous stages around the world, writer and performer Ivan Coyote acquired an astounding collection of fan letters. When the pandemic hit, those letters that had long piled up could finally begin to be answered. The result is their most intimate and moving book yet, Care Of. Tune in for a conversation with Coyote about their latest work, and the themes it explores, such as compassion, empathy, non-binary and Trans identity, and the power of human connection.

Interviewer: Robert Wiersema

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After spending years on the road, telling stories on numerous stages around the world, writer and performer Ivan Coyote acquired an astounding collection of fan letters. When the pandemic hit, those letters that had long piled up could finally begin to be answered. The result is their most intimate and moving book yet, Care Of. Tune in for a conversation with Coyote about their latest work, and the themes it explores, such as compassion, empathy, non-binary and Trans identity, and the power of human connection.

Interviewer: Robert Wiersema

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Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in Yukon, Canada. In 2019, Coyote marked 25 years on the road as an international touring storyteller and musician, and released their 12th book, Rebent Sinner. Coyote’s stories grapple with complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class and queer liberation, but always with a generous heart and a quick wit. Coyote’s stories handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity, while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.

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Robert J. Wiersema is the bestselling author of Before I Wake, Bedtime Story, and four other books. One of Canada’s foremost writers on books, his reviews appear regularly in the Toronto Star, Quill & Quire and other publications, and his Beyond the Bestseller column is featured biweekly on CBC Radio. Born and raised in the Fraser Valley, a couple of hours outside of Vancouver, Wiersema now lives in Victoria, BC. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Vancouver Island University and teaches his own private writing program.

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Friday, October 29

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