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Come welcome Wri ter-In-Residence Joshua Whitehead at our receptio n on October 20 at 1:00 pm in the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall at the First Natio ns Longhouse\, where he’ll be in conversation with faculty member Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Whitehead is an Oji-Cree\, T wo-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer\, Jonny Appleseed\, Making Love w ith the Land\, and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation About Storytell ing as well as the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of T wo-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Whitehead is an Assista nt Professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7) where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies and is curr ently a Research Excellence Chair.
During this ten-day residency from October 20 to October 31\, Whitehead will offer one-on-one mentorship\, vi sit classes\, and offer a process talk on the land-and-literature based-res earch 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.
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The Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall is access ible 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\, an d accessible washrooms. Let us know if you need front row seating / a wheel chair accessible area.
The School of Creative Writing is committed to making our events as accessible as possib le. If you have questions or requests about access\, please reach ou t to Sheryda Warrener at s.warrener@ubc.ca.
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