Events

Joanna Lilley leads a poetry workshop at the
Northern Nights Festival in Kluane National Park 
in September 2023. (Photograph: Louise Dumayne)

Yukon Words Festival

Joanna will be interviewing the winner of the Words for a Win poetry contest at the Yukon Words Festival and taking questions from the audience. 

11.30am to 12.20pm
Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre
1171 1st Avenue
Whitehorse Yukon
Canada

Find out about the contest finalists.

Find out about the Yukon Words Festival.

Sympoiesis: Collaborators, Co-creating and Making-With

A Delisted 2023 Colloquium on Wednesday 11 December 2024 on Zoom at 5pm Eastern Time.

Five Delisted 2023 poets and artists share their projects and discuss the joys and challenges of collaboration. Together, Madeline Bassnett [green blossom pearly mussel], Joanna Lilley [tubercled blossom pearly mussel], Alissa Hattman [Kaua’i o’o’], Madhur Anand [stirrup shell, all], and Adriene Jenik [all] will briefly share their respective pieces and how the co-creating took shape. Moderated by Madeline Bassnett, the panellists will discuss how they found their way towards a relationship with the non-human and what they discovered about the form of that relation. The conversation will invite everyone from the Delisted 2023 cohort to consider how individual pieces come together and live in the world. How do we deepen our thinking around creating art in dialogue with species, ecology, systems, and place? What do we hope we’re doing with this project? In what ways might the multiple forms merge to create new shapes through symbiogenesis? How will Delisted 2023 live in the world?

Contact Joanna if you'd like more details or visit Delisted 2023 for more information about the overall project. 

Poetry workshop

Joanna will be delivering an in person poetry workshop in Dawson, Yukon, in February 2025. Check back for details. 

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.