Come welcome Writer-In-Residence Joshua Whitehead at our reception on October 20 at 1:00 pm in the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall at the First Nations Longhouse, where he’ll be in conversation with faculty member Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, Making Love with the Land, and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation About Storytelling as well as the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7) where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies and is currently a Research Excellence Chair.
During this ten-day residency from October 20 to October 31, Whitehead will offer one-on-one mentorship, visit classes, and offer a process talk on the land-and-literature based-research he immersed himself in for his new book The Stonewailers.
This event is open to the students, faculty and staff of the School of Creative Writing and the wider UBC community.
We are grateful to the First Nations House of Learning for allowing us the use of Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall at the First Nations Longhouse for this event.
Access
The Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall is accessible from the South and West entrances of the Longhouse, and via a ramp at the West side of the hall entrance. There are gender neutral, family, and accessible washrooms. Let us know if you need front row seating / a wheelchair accessible area.
The School of Creative Writing is committed to making our events as accessible as possible. If you have questions or requests about access, please reach out to Sheryda Warrener at s.warrener@ubc.ca.
