UBCO Visiting Author Series Presents poet/writer Michael V. Smith and poet/author Hannah Calder at the Okanagan Library – Kelowna Branch through the Bodies of Knowledge Summer Writing Intensive
Date: 14 July, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Kelowna Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library, 1380 Ellis St., V1Y 2A2
Everyone is welcome to this exciting Visiting Authors reading series event, presented by the UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, in conjunction with the Bodies of Knowledge Summer Writing Intensive.
Hannah Calder is the author of two novels, More House (2009) and Piranesi’s Figures (2016), both published by New Star Books. Her poetry and fiction have also appeared in various journals, including West Coast Line and The Capilano Review. She lives in Vernon, B.C., where she teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Okanagan College.
Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown, teaching in creative writing in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. His latest book, My Body Is Yours (2015 Arsenal Pulp) is a memoir about breaking out of gender norms and breaking free of a hurtful past.
Also reading this evening are the students of UBC Okanagan’s creative writing summer intensive course, Bodies of Knowledge.
The Bodies of Knowledge contemporary disability studies and literary criticism research intensive runs for two weeks at in July at UBCO is chaired by Assistant Professor and author/poet Matt Rader, creative writing faculty at UBCO and is important as it features visiting artists and academics from a wide range of research/artistic practices.
This is a free event. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Reading commences at 6:00 pm.
For more information about this event, please contact:
Clayton McCann, Research Assistant, UBCO FCCS, bwgreview@gmail.com