Scared to tell the whole truth? How do you tell the whole truth? Is it even yours to tell? Emelia had to grapple with these questions in her memoir, Skid Dogs, and she surprised herself. Sometimes telling the truth isn’t the bravest or smartest choice. A Q&A mini-workshop about brutal honesty, responsibility, and conscience when writing a memoir.

Location: Room C215, UBC Robson Square

Type: Workshop

Facilitator: Emelia Symington-Fedy, Skid Dogs (Douglas & McIntyre)

About The Facilitator

EMELIA SYMINGTON-FEDY is a theatre creator, broadcaster and author. She is the founding co- artistic director of The Chop, and has toured their works to global acclaim. A writer and co-writer on over twenty-five new Canadian theatre productions, Emelia has also been a contributing essayist to CBC radio for twenty years, telling personal stories- about motherhood, addiction, grief, and other forbidden topics- in public. Emelia has been a guest lecturer at UBC and Simon Fraser University and is a graduate of Studio 58, The SFU Writer’s Studio, and SFU’s Creative Writing Graduate Program. She leads retreats and workshops on creativity. Emelia lives in the woods with her partner and kids. 'Skid Dogs’ is her first book.