2020 events
Joanna will be reading from her third poetry collection, Endlings, which is all about extinction, at events in Canada and the UK in 2020. Check back for updates.Pivotal Words
A Pivot Festival event featuring Siku Allooloo, Elisabeth Weigand, Joanna Lilley
and Doug Rutherford
Tuesday 21 January 2020
7pm, pay what you can
North of Ordinary Experience Centre
Whitehorse
Pivot Words will include an open mic – all welcome
Readings for a February Eve
Featuring Peter Jickling, Peter Steele and Joanna Lilley
Saturday 8 February 2020
Doors open at 6.30pm, event begins at 7pm
Globe Theatre
Atlin, BC
Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space
Animals studies conference
19 to 21 March 2020
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Brown and Dickson Bookstore
Poetry reading with Tom Cull and Joanna Lilley
Monday 23 March 2020
567 Richmond Street
London, Ontario
Check back for details
knife fork book
Poetry reading with Joanna Lilley
Tuesday 24 March 2020
7pm
Artspace Youngplace
180 Shaw Street
Toronto, Ontario
Vertigo Series
Monday 6 April 2020
Crave Kitchen and Wine Bar
1925 Victoria Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan
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McNally Robinson Bookstore
Tuesday 7 April 2020
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Surrey Muse
Featuring Cynthia Sharp, Joanna Lilley, Dabke Dancers, Nefertiti SheLa Morrison, Sana Janjua
Friday 22 May 2020
5.30 to 8.30pm
Room 405 – City Centre branch
Surrey Public Library, BC
Surrey Public Library, BC
Get in touch with event ideas
Joanna loves sharing
the joy of words with readers and writers and is always interested in giving readings,
taking part in discussions and delivering workshops. Just get in touch if you'd
like to talk about any ideas for events.
In 2018, Joanna gave readings from Worry Stones at St Peter's College in Muenster, the Vertigo Series in Regina and McNally Robinson bookstore in Saskatoon with novelist Barbara Langhorst. She also read at People's Coop Bookstore in Vancouver with novelist Ethel Whitty. Joanna also took part in a poetry 'milk run' tour of Alaska, hosted by 49 Writers, giving workshops, readings and craft talks in Juneau, Cordova and Anchorage on the theme of Human Geography: Putting Words in their Place. Also in 2018, Joanna gave poetry readings at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, Lunch Poems at SFU in Vancouver, the BIG LIT festival in Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland; the launch of The Northern Review in Whitehorse, Yukon; St Peter's College, Muenster, Saskatchewan; McNally Robinson bookstore in Winnipeg with Karen Clavelle and Carmelo Militano; knife fork book poetry bookstore in Toronto with Richard Scarsbrook and Steve Venright, and with Lisa L Moore, Jamella Hagen, jkmunro and Michael Eden Reynolds at Baked Café, Whitehorse. She also hosted authors at the Atlin Lit Up festival in British Columbia.
In earlier years, Joanna has taken parts in events all across Canada and has participated in the Cascadia Poetry Festival (Seattle), Edmonton Poetry Festival, gritLIT (Hamilton), NorthWords NWT (Yellowknife), The Word on the Street in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), Atlin Lit Up (British Columbia) and the Whitehorse Poetry Festival.
Are you in a book club?
Get in touch if you'd like Joanna to come to your book club in person or via Skype or FaceTime.
Previous events
In 2019, Joanna took part in the Young Authors' Conference in Whitehorse, Live Words in Whitehorse and Teslin, and the Growing Room festival in Vancouver. She also gave a writing workshop with Os Pressan in Reykjavik, Iceland, a reading and talk about her debut novel, Worry Stones, at the Scottish Writers' Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, and a poetry reading from If There Were Roads at Poetry Chichester in England. She also gave a poetry reading at Gurdeep Pandher's Punjabi Dinner in Whitehorse and read from her novel at libraries in Campbell River, Nanaimo and Victoria on Vancouver Island.
In earlier years, Joanna has taken parts in events all across Canada and has participated in the Cascadia Poetry Festival (Seattle), Edmonton Poetry Festival, gritLIT (Hamilton), NorthWords NWT (Yellowknife), The Word on the Street in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), Atlin Lit Up (British Columbia) and the Whitehorse Poetry Festival.
