Events
With gratitude
Joanna is grateful to all the event organizers, funders and publishers who have worked so hard to move events online during the Covid pandemic.
Upcoming events
Monthly Poetry Reading
BC Federation of Writers
Poetry reading with Shelley A Leedahl, Hasan Namir, Billeh Nickerson and Joanna Lilley with host Fiona Tinwei Lam
2pm, online
Saturday 12 June 2021
Single Onion: Calgary's Monthly Poetry Fix
Poetry reading with Yvonne Blomer, Cynthia Woodman, Anushka Azadi and Joanna Lilley
7pm, online
Thursday 17 June 2021
South Downs Poetry Festival and Festival of Chichester
The Assembly Room, Chichester, West Sussex, England
7.30pm, in person
Thursday, 24 June 2021
Dartington Hall
Devon, England
31 October to 2 November 2021
Poetry reading at Juneau Economic Development Council's summit
8 April 2021
Joanna Lilley in conversation with Angela Lovell of the Manitou Branch of South Central Regional Library, Manitoba
22 February 2021
Jennifer Still and Joanna Lilley
March 2021
Ellen Bielawski: 00:00
Joanna Lilley: 17:30
Ron Chambers: 33:30
Ellen Bielawski: 00:00
Joanna Lilley: 19:15
Ron Chambers: 36:05
These two As the Ice Melts videos present stories and poetry on the theme of our changing environment by Yukon authors Ellen Bielawski and Joanna Lilley and Champagne and Aishihik First Nations storyteller Ron Chambers. The videos were recorded on location in Yukon, Canada, thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts' Digital Originals fund and launched at an online watch party on January 28, 2021.
Yvonne Blomer, Jenna Butler, Beth Kope, Joanna Lilley, Annick MacAskill, Arleen Paré
Victoria Festival of Authors
30 September to 4 October 2020
Curated by Hannah Hodgson
8 to 22 July 2020
Watershed lit, fig
Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada's 2020 conference
8 to 22 July 2020
Francine Cunningham, Joanna Lilley and Kevin Spenst
15 July 2020
Featuring Joanna Lilley and Fraser Sutherland
9 June 2020
One Minute Poem Series
Poets Corner
4 June 2020
Surrey Muse
Featuring Cynthia Sharp, Dabke Dancers, Nefertiti SheLa Morrison, Sana Janjua and Joanna Lilley
22 May 2020
One Minute Poem Series
Poets Corner
4 June 2020
Surrey Muse
Featuring Cynthia Sharp, Dabke Dancers, Nefertiti SheLa Morrison, Sana Janjua and Joanna Lilley
22 May 2020
Poetry London Spring Mini Reading Series
Featuring Robin Richardson, Gillian Sze and Joanna Lilley
20 May 2020
Periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics
Joanna reads three poems from Endlings
28 April 2020
Featuring Robin Richardson, Gillian Sze and Joanna Lilley
20 May 2020
Periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics
Joanna reads three poems from Endlings
28 April 2020
Pandemic Response Reading Series
Joanna in conversation with Cary Hamel of the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Victoria Markstrom of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, hosted by poet Paul Pearson
22 April 2020
Joanna in conversation with Cary Hamel of the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Victoria Markstrom of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, hosted by poet Paul Pearson
22 April 2020
49th Shelf Launchpad
Interview and reading
Interview and reading
April 2020
Invite Joanna to your event
Joanna has given readings across Canada as well as in the US and UK and has delivered workshops as far afield as Iceland and Alaska.
Festivals and conferences at which Joanna has performed include: Alaska Innovation Summit (Juneau), Atlin Lit Up (British Columbia), BIG LIT (Scotland), Cascadia Poetry Festival (Seattle), Culture Days (Yukon), Edmonton Poetry Festival, gritLIT (Hamilton), Growing Room (Vancouver), Hope and Resistance in the Anthropocene Symposium (UK), Isolation Fest (UK), NorthWords NWT (Yellowknife), Pivot Festival (Whitehorse), Victoria Festival of Authors, Watershed, lit, fig – Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (Saskatchewan), Whitehorse Poetry Festival, Wild Words North (British Columbia) and The Word on the Street in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan).
Festivals and conferences at which Joanna has performed include: Alaska Innovation Summit (Juneau), Atlin Lit Up (British Columbia), BIG LIT (Scotland), Cascadia Poetry Festival (Seattle), Culture Days (Yukon), Edmonton Poetry Festival, gritLIT (Hamilton), Growing Room (Vancouver), Hope and Resistance in the Anthropocene Symposium (UK), Isolation Fest (UK), NorthWords NWT (Yellowknife), Pivot Festival (Whitehorse), Victoria Festival of Authors, Watershed, lit, fig – Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (Saskatchewan), Whitehorse Poetry Festival, Wild Words North (British Columbia) and The Word on the Street in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan).
Invite Joanna to your book club
Get in touch if you'd like Joanna to join your book club online.
You can also use these book club questions to spark discussion about Joanna's latest poetry book, Endlings, which is all about extinct animals.
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 financial support of the Government of Yukon Touring Artist Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Union of Canada for many of these events.