Events
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| Joanna Lilley leads a poetry workshop at the Northern Nights Festival in Kluane National Park. (Photograph: Louise Dumayne) |
You're a poet and deep down you know it
A beginner, two-hour workshop for anyone who's curious about poetry and would like to have a go. Join Joanna to pick up some writing tips and try out some on-the-spot writing.Saturday 7 June 2025
2.30 to 4.30pm
Burnaby Public Library
Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch
6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, British Columbia V5H 4N5, Canada
(on the corner of Willingdon Avenue and Central Boulevard)
Free
The workshop is a partnership event with Burnaby Writers' Society and Metrotown Library.
Climate Talk
Join Joanna to hear poems on the theme of environmental loss as we grapple with climate change and world calamities. You'll have a chance to try out writing and may even discover that poetry can be surprisingly restorative.
Sunday 8 June 2025
12 to 1pm
St Andrew's-Wesley United Church
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Free
Invite Joanna to your event or book club
Joanna has given readings, talks and workshops at as far afield as Iceland and Alaska as well as in her home town of Whitehorse, Yukon, and online.
Get in touch if you'd like Joanna to join your event online or in person.
Joanna is also available for book club appearances. You can use book club questions to spark discussion about Joanna's poetry book, Endlings, which is all about extinct animals.
You can borrow Joanna's novel, Worry Stones, as a book club set at the Whitehorse Public Library in Yukon.
It wouldn't happen without them
Joanna is enormously grateful to all the organizers, funders and publishers who create and support events. 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 and other funders for all the events she's participated in over the years.
