IN PERSON Lit Night with Jenna Butler - EDMONTON
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 7-8:30pm
MEMBERS: FREE
NON-MEMBERS: $5
Bridging Personal Stories of Past and Present
Join us for this 60-minute storytelling session (followed by Q&A) with Writer-in-Residence Dr. Jenna Butler. We all carry stories of home, whether those are of places we've lived in all our lives or places we've had to leave behind in search of new stories as immigrants and refugees. This workshop will empower you to tell the stories of the many homes and experiences you carry with you, using the stories of those earlier experiences as starting points to write about the places in which you find yourself now.
This program takes place in person at Daisy Chain Book Co in Edmonton, 12525, 102 Ave NW
Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her) is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book, Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction and a longlisted title for CBC Canada Reads 2023. Butler’s work in the environmental humanities has taken her around the world, including to Svalbard aboard an ice-class tall ship and, next year, to Oregon as a resident fellow for Oregon State University, Oregon Wild, and the Spring Creek Project. As a queer BIPOC writer and grower, she speaks internationally on equitable land access, diverse community-building, and reciprocal ecological relationships in farming. Butler is a retired professor of creative and environmental writing and an off-grid organic farmer in northern Treaty 6. She is the current Writer in Residence for the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
