On Edge Reading Series: Adam Pottle
The Writing Centre presents the On Edge Reading Series SPRING 2023, which seeks to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of the Emily Carr University community.
On Edge Reading Series SPRING 2023 season with:
Adam Pottle
Monday, February 6th, at 6:30 pm PT
Online event: Zoom registration
Adam Pottle is a Deaf author whose writing spans multiple genres. His works include the novella The Bus, the memoir Voice, and the groundbreaking Deaf musical The Black Drum.
His work has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including
Saskatchewan Book Awards, the ReLit Award, and the National Magazine
Award. In the 2021-22 academic year, he served Sheridan College as
writer in residence, and in 2022 he was a Warner Bros. Discovery Access
screenwriting fellow. His prairie gothic horror novel Apparitions will appear in Fall 2023, and his children’s story Butterfly on the Wind will be released in Spring 2024. He lives in Saskatoon, where he teaches English and creative writing.
FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation is provided.
Please click here to see all readers for the On Edge Spring 2023 season.
About the Series:
The On Edge 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. The On Edge programming serves to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of ECUAD. The 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.
This series is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Tenaya Fogelman