Alicia Elliott (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/egDrXT0BTU2FnEo2e-GIjg#/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.
Alicia Elliott
Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 5:30PM PT in the Aboriginal Gathering Place
Livestream link: Register for Zoom Room here
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt,
and many others. She’s had numerous essays nominated for National
Magazine Awards, winning gold in 2017 and an honorable mention in 2020.
Her short fiction was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2018, Best Canadian Stories 2018, and The Journey Prize Stories 30. Alicia 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,
was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for
Nonfiction, won the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, and was a
national bestseller in Canada. Her debut novel, And Then She Fell, was named a Globe and Mail and
CBC Best Book of the Year in 2023, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for
Fiction, won the Indigenous Voices Award, the Amazon First Novel Award,
the First Nations Communities READ Award, and is a national bestseller.
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.