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  • How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading
    How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading
    November 08, 2022

    How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading

    The other week, I stood on the edge of a stage down at Harbourfront, waiting for my cue. I wasn’t nervous about reading. After a year of online events, I was excited to read to a live audience, but ...

  • Feel the Power of Indigenous Spoken Word in an Excerpt from Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry
    Feel the Power of Indigenous Spoken Word in an Excerpt from Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry
    June 13, 2022

    Feel the Power of Indigenous Spoken Word in an Excerpt from Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry

    Back in 2021, the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) came together to stage a spectacular poetry happening: 17 Indigenous ...

  • Unstuck: what writers can learn from artists in other disciplines
    Unstuck: what writers can learn from artists in other disciplines
    April 23, 2021

    Unstuck: what writers can learn from artists in other disciplines

    What can writers learn from burlesque performers, chefs, choreographers, and designers? What advice do established artists in other disciplines have for emerging writers? Let's find out. I'm so excited ...

  • 3 Practices the Literary Scene Could Learn from Spoken Word Artists
    3 Practices the Literary Scene Could Learn from Spoken Word Artists
    November 20, 2019

    3 Practices the Literary Scene Could Learn from Spoken Word Artists

     When I was curating So Fresh: A Scarborough Reading, I desperately wanted to bring together two worlds that I deeply loved. First were the authors that I knew from the literary community. Authors like ...

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