Join award-winning poet and experienced facilitator and teacher Selina Boan and novelist and VPL programming librarian Andrew Battershill for an expansive discussion about teaching creative writing outside of universities. Topics will include the differences between teaching in academic and community settings, what options are available in Vancouver, and how accessible, community-oriented Creative Writing education can make the writing and reading eco-system healthier and more sustainable.

Location: Room 485, UBC Robson Square

Sponsored by: Vancouver Public Library

Readers: Selina Boan, Undoing Hours (Harbour Publishing) | Andrew Battershill, Pet, Pet, Slap (Coach House Books)

About The Readers

Selina Boan

Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer and educator living on the traditional, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (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.

Andrew Battershill

Andrew Battershill is the author of three novels. He was the 2019 Winner of the ReLit Award, and his work has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award.