On Edge Reading Series: Spring 2025

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.

All readings are FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation is provided for all readings.

On Edge is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Joanna. Logo and posters by Sandy.

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For any other inquiries: Please email onedge@ecuad.ca

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.

FEATURING:

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.

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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
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Steacy Easton
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 5:30PM PT in the Writing Centre (ECUAD Library)
Livestream link: Register from Zoom Room here

Steacy Easton is a writer and visual artist, originally from Edmonton, who has lived in Hamilton for more than eight years. They are the author of three books, one on Tammy Wynette (Why Tammy Wynette Matters, University of Texas Press), one on Dolly Parton (Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen for Bloomsbury), and a memoir (Daddy Lessons, for Coachhouse). Their music writing has been published by Atlantic Online, Bluegrass Situation, CBC, Spin, NPR, Vulture and others. They have visual work shown in Toronto, Montreal, New York, and Halifax.

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Cody Caetano
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5:30PM PT in the Aboriginal Gathering Place
Livestream link: Register for Zoom Room here

Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, was a national bestseller, won two Indigenous Voices Awards, was longlisted for Canada Reads, the Toronto Book Award, the Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Edna Staebler Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC Books in 2023. Cody represents award-winning and bestselling authors of literary fiction and nonfiction. He joined CookeMcDermid in 2022 after starting his career at Transatlantic Agency. He holds an MA in English in the field of Creative Writing and a BA in English and Professional Writing & Communication from the University of Toronto. Cody is Anishinaabe, Portuguese, and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation.

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