This session explores what it means to write in a language other than English or French in Canada, where most literary opportunities, resources, and audiences are concentrated in the country’s two official languages. How do newcomer and refugee writers writing in languages other than the two official languages, continue to develop their practice and reach […]
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This session explores oral history as a way of challenging the stories that institutions, archives, and dominant cultures tell about communities. Bringing together Indigenous and immigrant approaches to oral storytelling, it asks who gets to decide what is remembered, whose knowledge is treated as history, and what gets lost when complex lives are reduced to […]
This session uses butter chicken—and food more broadly—as a lens for examining how immigrant identities are made palatable, marketable, and legible to dominant audiences. Moving beyond cuisine, the conversation explores the many ways immigrants learn to translate and repackage themselves: adjusting how they speak, describe their experiences, present their qualifications, and perform culture in order […]
This session examines the hustle required to sustain a writing practice in an increasingly precarious economy, where artistic work itself is often underpaid, unstable, and dependent on short-term opportunities. For immigrant, newcomer, and refugee writers, these pressures are compounded by the demands of rebuilding a life in a new country, navigating the devaluation of previous […]
