CANCELLED – Making Love with the Land: Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead and Tyler Pennock

CANCELLED – Making Love with the Land: Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead and Tyler Pennock

1:00pm

Sunday, October 2

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We hope to welcome Joshua Whitehead to our stage another time in the future, and apologize for any disappointment and inconvenience caused by this cancellation. Ticket holders will be refunded.

Following his acclaimed Giller-Longlisted debut novel, Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead’s new book of non-fiction explores indigeneity, queerness, language and land. A hybrid of writing formats, including essays, notes, memoir and confessions, Making Love with the Land is a vulnerable, heart wrenching account of what it means to live and write as a queer Indigenous person. Whitehead illuminates the current cultural moment in Canada in which everyone – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – is navigating new ideas about how the land shapes us, our ideas, our histories and our bodies.

Interviewed by Tyler Pennock.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We hope to welcome Joshua Whitehead to our stage another time in the future, and apologize for any disappointment and inconvenience caused by this cancellation. Ticket holders will be refunded.

Following his acclaimed Giller-Longlisted debut novel, Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead’s new book of non-fiction explores indigeneity, queerness, language and land. A hybrid of writing formats, including essays, notes, memoir and confessions, Making Love with the Land is a vulnerable, heart wrenching account of what it means to live and write as a queer Indigenous person. Whitehead illuminates the current cultural moment in Canada in which everyone – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – is navigating new ideas about how the land shapes us, our ideas, our histories and our bodies.

Interviewed by Tyler Pennock.

Featured Authors

Joshua Whitehead
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the novel Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction, and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks), which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Currently, he is working on a PhD in Indigenous Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary's English department (Treaty 7).

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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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Sunday, October 2

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