Wayde Compton: Black British Columbian History in 3 Literary Forms

The North Shore Writers Festival presents a Night with Wayde Compton! 

Author Wayde Compton discusses Black British Columbian history through the different literary forms of his published works- poetry, non-fiction essay, and the graphic novel. Compton will read from all three, and discuss how the different approaches to the topic inform, or are informed by, the literary forms they take. 

Registration is required. Register by April 15 at 12:00pm. 

The North Shore Writers Festival is presented in partnership by North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver District Public Library, and West Vancouver Memorial Library. Thank you to our festival contributor, the North Shore Writers Association. 

For more information on this event or other 2021 North Shore Writers Festival events, visit www.northshorewritersfestival.com 

About Wayde Compton:
Wayde Compton has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006 Compton co-founded Commodore Books, western Canada's first Black Canadian literary press. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-18, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer's Studio. His latest book, The Blue Road, a fantasy graphic novel for young adults, illustrated by April dela Noche Milne, was called a "touching allegory of the unexpected and burdensome trials of migration" in a starred Kirkus review. Compton is currently the chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.
 

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Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Category: Community | Libraries