11 – 12:30 am Workshop – Hazel Millar and author Shawna Lemay
Location: – The Armouries (SoCA) Gallery
Hazel Millar is the Co-publisher at Book*hug, an award-winning independent literary press based in Toronto. An avid reader, Hazel is rarely without a book. She is also the current Chair of the Board of the Literary Press Group of Canada and sits on several other literary boards and advisory committees. She lives in Toronto.
Shawna Lemay has written six books of poetry, a book of essays, and an experimental novel. All the God-Sized Fruit, her first book, won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Calm Things: Essays was shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction. She writes the popular blog Transactions With Beauty. She lives in Edmonton.
Note that this workshop is for grown up writers. We encourage student participants, but note that we do not censor content or language by presenters or audience.