Journeys of Self-Discovery: Billy-Ray Belcourt & Tyler Pennock

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Tyler Pennock and Jennifer Alicia Murrin

Journeys of Self-Discovery: Billy-Ray Belcourt & Tyler Pennock

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Tyler Pennock and Jennifer Alicia Murrin

9:00pm

Monday, October 26

45 mins

Prepare to feel moved by two of Canada’s most highly anticipated debut authors. Driftpile Cree Nation poet and youngest winner of the Griffin Prize, Billy-Ray Belcourt, presents A History of my Brief Body, accounting his personal history and reconciliation with the world he was born into. Two-spirit Cree-Métis poet, Tyler Pennock, presents Bones, a collection of poems about moving through shadows toward strength and awareness. These coming-of-age memoirs of hope and survival sprouting from trauma, will leave you inspired.

Interviewer: Jennifer Alicia Murrin

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Prepare to feel moved by two of Canada’s most highly anticipated debut authors. Driftpile Cree Nation poet and youngest winner of the Griffin Prize, Billy-Ray Belcourt, presents A History of my Brief Body, accounting his personal history and reconciliation with the world he was born into. Two-spirit Cree-Métis poet, Tyler Pennock, presents Bones, a collection of poems about moving through shadows toward strength and awareness. These coming-of-age memoirs of hope and survival sprouting from trauma, will leave you inspired.

Interviewer: Jennifer Alicia Murrin

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Featured Authors

Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of four books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body and A Minor Chorus.

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Tyler Pennock
Tyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), is a Two-Spirit Queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They were adopted from a Cree and Métis family, and reunited with them in 2006. Tyler is a graduate of Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program (2013), as well as the University of Toronto (2009). They have lived in Toronto for the past 25 years.

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Jennifer Alicia Murrin
Jennifer Alicia Murrin (they/she) is a queer, mixed (Mi’kmaw/Settler) storyteller originally from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk (Bay Of Islands, Newfoundland), now residing in Toronto. She is a two-time national poetry slam champion and member of Seeds & Stardust Poetry Collective. Jennifer Alicia's debut chapbook is being released by Moon Jelly House Fall 2020. Find out more about their work here: www.jenniferalicia.com. Appearance supported by Pride Toronto.    

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9:00pm

Monday, October 26

45 mins

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