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Join us for an exciting event with award-winning authors Carleigh Baker and Amanda Peters as they share the inspirations behind their latest short story collections and discuss how fiction can be a powerful tool for dissecting and understanding the world around us. Carleigh Baker’s Last Woman delivers 13 character-driven stories that tackle contemporary issues such as fear for the future, intergenerational misunderstandings and the complexities of belonging with sharp wit and boundless empathy. Amanda Peters follows up last year’s Berry Pickers with Waiting for the Long Night Moon combining traditional storytelling with evocative prose, covering topics from early European contact to modern environmental struggles. Together, they will explore misguided characters, the resilient power to endure and the critical perspective that Indigenous authors bring to the literary world.

Moderator: Jennifer Alicia Murrin

The Festival of Indigenous Stories is a two-day celebration with Indigenous writers, artists and storytellers taking centre stage for conversations, readings, performances and activities on the shores of Lake Ontario.

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Waiting for the Long Night Moon

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Carleigh Baker

Carleigh Baker is an nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân/Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwu7mesh and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, The Short Story Advent Calendar and The Journey Prize Stories.

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Amanda Peters

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers, was a critically acclaimed bestseller in Canada.

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Photo credit: Amanda Peters.