We're thrilled to welcome Alicia Elliott to cap off our Winter term readings!
Please join us on Wednesday 4 March at 3:30pm in SJ2 1004.
The opening act will be Joanne Tiotangco Magbitang.
Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford,
Ontario. She has written for Globe and
Mail, CBC, Hazlitt and many
others. She’s had essays nominated for National Magazine Awards for three
straight years, winning Gold in 2017, and her short fiction was selected for
Best American Short Stories 2018, Best Canadian Stories 2018, and Journey Prize
Stories 30. She was chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC
Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, is a national bestseller.
Special thanks to the Wilfrid Laurier University English Department
(especially Tanis MacDonald) and Indigenous Student Centre, who we are
partnering with for Alicia's visit.