The University of Calgary is organizing a series of readings and conversations among African Canadian writers. The second event, “Writing Across Nations,” will feature a panel with Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onobia, author of the NLNG Prize-winning The Son of the House; Amatoritsero Ede, author of Teardrops on the Weser; and Yejide Kilanko, author of A Good Name.
The free event, scheduled for February 11, celebrates Black History Month in Canada, and will be hosted by Uchechukwu Umezurike, author of Double Wahala, Double Trouble and visiting postdoctoral fellow at the university’s Department of English.
You can register HERE.
Another Canada event coming up in February is Mount Allison University’s Faculty of Arts Writers’ Series. On February 19, the Series will bring George Elliott Clarke, the fourth Poet Laureate of Toronto, and Helon Habila, author of Travelers, to “interrogate the Black experience in their respective works.” It is billed as a conversation where the “old Black Diaspora meets the new Black Diaspora.”
The event will take place virtually and is free to attend.
You can register HERE.
