Selina Boan (On Edge Reading Series: Spring 2025)
Literary reading series, open to the public
Location
Online Attendance
in person in the AGP with livestream option:
https://emilycarru.zoom.us/meeting/register/fyc_Ywe0S3SgF8a4uWl1TQ#/registration
Open to Public?
Yes
The On Edge Reading Series showcases the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work, writers who are also artists, volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars. On Edge programming serves to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of the Emily Carr University Community.
On Edge is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Joanna L.
Selina Boan
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 5:30PM PT in the Aboriginal Gathering Place
Livestream link: Register for the Zoom Room here
Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer and educator living on the traditional, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples.
Her debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2.
The On Edge series is support by the Emily Carr Writing Centre with grateful acknowledgement to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Coast Salish First Nations whose traditional lands we are on.