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UFV Writer-in-Residence Lindsay Wong will host memoirists Jenny Heijun Wills and Antonio Michael Down for a reading and conversation about the authors’ writing process.<\/p>\n
Jenny Heijun Wills is a Canadian writer whose memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related<\/em> won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019. Her book was also named as one of the Globe & Mail\u2019s \u201c100 Books that Shaped 2019\u201d, the CBC\u2019s \u201cBest Canadian Non-Fiction of 2019\u201d, and Adoptee Readings’ \u201c100 Adoptee-Authored Books from the Decade\u201d. She teaches writing and critical race studies in literature at the University of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n Antonio Michael Down is the author of Saga Boy<\/em>. He grew up in southern Trinidad, northern Ontario, Brooklyn, and Kitchener. He is a musician, writer, and activist based in Toronto. His debut novel, Molasses<\/em>, was published to critical acclaim. In 2017, he was named by the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada’s top emerging authors for nonfiction.<\/p>\n Thurs, March 18 To register for this event: Questions? Please contact the event\u2019s organizer Lindsay Wong: lindsay.wong@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UFV Writer-in-Residence Lindsay Wong will host memoirists Jenny Heijun Wills and Antonio Michael Down for a reading and conversation about the authors’ writing process. Jenny Heijun Wills is a Canadian writer whose memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019. Her book was also named as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24476,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429\/revisions\/24476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n11:30 am-12:30 pm
\nOnline — Zoom<\/p>\n
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