InkWellTold is a quarterly interactive conversation series hosted by the Delta Literary Arts Society, where local authors share their work and engage in live discussion. In this special Word Vancouver Edition, authors Rahat Kurd and Daniela Elza will explore the topic of how material reality intersects with personal and political imagination in their writing.

Location: Sunroom, UBC Robson Square

Type: Poetry, Reading

Sponsored by: Delta Literary Arts Society

Moderator: Angela Rebrec

Readers: Rahat Kurd, The Book of Z (Talonbooks) & The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters (co-authored with Sumayya Syed, Talonbooks) | Daniela Elza, SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press) & Is This an Illness or an Accident? (Caitlin Press)

About The Readers

Daniela Elza

Daniela Elza’s debut essay collection Is This an Illness or an Accident? (Caitlin Press, 2025) delves into the conflicts and contradictions of what it means to belong, to work, and to find home. Poems from her collection SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) were longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry. When she is not writing or volunteering in her community Daniela works as a creative writing instructor, editor, and mentor.

Rahat Kurd

Rahat Kurd is a writer, editor, and poet of Kashmiri origin, based in Vancouver. The Book Of Z, published by Talonbooks this fall 2025, is her second book-length work of poetry. Her previous literary titles with Talonbooks are The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters, co-authored with Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed in 2021, and Cosmophilia, her first book of poems in 2015.