Events & Workshops

 

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Accessibility measures in this event:

• Live auto-captions through Zoom during the live event
• (TBD) A read-along copy of the presenter's talk available during the live event only
• Presenter self-descriptions
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request

 

First Draft: Conversations on Writing is an online talk series that dives into themes that affect our writing lives. Writing helps us to understand things and to communicate these findings to our audience, even if our audience is ourselves. Sometimes we are driven by these themes, other times they’re the things that hold us back – what we learn through the process can be revolutionary. The quest to be understood unifies all writers.

 

This event features a 15-minute talk presented by Iryn Tushabe. Following the talk is an interview conversation with Jean Marc Ah-Sen to dig deeper into the event theme.

 

Participants are welcome to submit questions in advance of the event to swgevents@skwriter.com.

 

To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q1AWEBi6S5q7nLRyiUXNqw

 

Fiction teaches empathy (and other half-truths about reading writers of colour) 

 

What happens to literary imagination when the high priests of the publishing enterprise aim to produce art for their biggest market i.e a presumed white readership? How does that presumption impact writers of colour? And what are the consequences of this construction for all of us readers? Join Iryn Tushabe as she considers these and other questions which have challenged her both as a writer and a reader.

 

Presenter

 

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Adda, The Walrus, and in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series (Book seven), and has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The best of Canada’s New Writers (volumes 30 and 33.) 

 

Tushabe won the City of Regina writing award in 2020, was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and won the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize which, in 2023, recognized the year’s best short stories by ten emerging Black writers. Her debut novel, Everything is Fine Here, is forthcoming with House of Anansi Press in Winter 2025.

 

Host

 

Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, and Kilworthy Tanner. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult, Hazlitt, Maclean's, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star. The National Post has hailed his writing as "an inventive escape from the conventional." 

 

 

 

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