Whitehorse
Whitehorse launch of Worry Stones, featuring Joanna Lilley, Ellen Bielawski,
Patti Flather and Lily Gontard
Hosted by Jamella Hagen
Thursday 29 November 2018
7 pm
Baked Café, Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon
Mac's Fireweed Books will be there to sell books by all the authors
Juneau
Poetry workshop
3 December 2018
Details to come
Juneau
Poetry reading and craft talk
Hosted by 49Writers
4 December 2018
Details to come
Cordova
Poetry reading and workshop
Hosted by 49Writers
5 December 2018
Details to come
Anchorage
Poetry reading, craft talk and workshop
Hosted by 49Writers
6 and 7 December 2018
Details to come
Glasgow
Reading and talk: What I learnt the hard way about writing a novel (so you don't have to)
Hosted by the Scottish Writers' Centre
Tuesday 29 January 2019
7.15 pm
Details to come
Glasgow, Scotland
Chichester
Poetry reading
Hosted by Chichester Poetry
The programme includes an open mic (come along and share your work!)
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Time to be confirmed
New Park Centre, Chichester, England
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.
Joanna has also given 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 Atlin, BC.
In 2017, Joanna gave readings in Dawson City (Westminster Hotel); the Atlin Arts and Music Festival, where she also delivered fiction and poetry workshops; the Whitehorse launch of her book, If There Were Roads; Chrys Salt's Whitehorse reading; Poetry New Westminster; the launch of the Circumpolar Duet exhibition, and at the Vancouver and Whitehorse launches of Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (Caitlin Press).
So far this year
In 2018 so far, Joanna has given readings from her debut novel, Worry Stones, at St Peter's College in Muenster, the Vertigo Series in Regina, and McNally Robinson bookstore in Saskatoon with novelist Barbara Langhorst and at People's Coop Bookstore in Vancouver with novelist Ethel Whitty.Joanna has also given 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 Atlin, BC.
In 2017, Joanna gave readings in Dawson City (Westminster Hotel); the Atlin Arts and Music Festival, where she also delivered fiction and poetry workshops; the Whitehorse launch of her book, If There Were Roads; Chrys Salt's Whitehorse reading; Poetry New Westminster; the launch of the Circumpolar Duet exhibition, and at the Vancouver and Whitehorse launches of Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (Caitlin Press).
In 2016, she gave
poetry and fiction readings at the Yellowknife Book Cellar in Yellowknife, The Art Bar Poetry Series in Toronto, The Word on the Street in Saskatoon, gritLIT festival in Hamilton with the Hamilton Poetry Centre and at the University of Edinburgh. While on her travels, she also delivered a fiction writing workshop in Yellowknife, as a Northwords NWT event.
It wouldn't happen without them
Joanna is very grateful to all the volunteers and venues who have hosted and helped her. She also very much appreciates the support of the Government of Yukon Touring Artist Fund.book clubs
Get in touch if
you'd like Joanna to come to your book club. She can read some fiction or poems or both and then you can ask her any questions you like (she thinks).
