Our series is thrilled to partner with Six Nations Tourism at Chiefswood National Historic Site for our Fall 2024 reading events!
Join us on Saturday, November 30th at 2pm for presentations of original writing by Anto Chen, Jaclyn Desforges, Mike Madill, and Deliah Pittman.
BOOKS will be available for purchase.
FREE PARKING available onsite.
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS will be provided.
Chiefswood National Historic Site is the birthplace and childhood home of Mohawk poetess E. Pauline Johnson.
Arrive at 1pm to take a self-guided or guided tour Chiefswood.
Self-guided tour = $10/per person
Guided tours = $15/per person
Cash & cards are accepted on site to support the work of Six Nations Tourism, the stewards of Chiefswood National Historic Site.
Our events, and partnership with Six Nations Tourism, is made possible with funding support from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and Government of Ontario. We are also grateful for additional funding support from The Writers’ Union of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
Anto Chan is a Queer HK Chinese-Canadian spoken word performance artist, facilitator, mentor, producer, student and writer. He has toured across Canada and Asia featuring on Hong Kong Comedy Festival, Verses Festival of Words & CBC’s The National. He is the founder of the Canada Council funded InnerGenerational and his album of the same name will be released in 2024. His life work centres on expansion, intersectionality, and self-love through the page, stage and community. He builds meaningful projects aiming to create and support art that speaks to the journey of soul healing, self-discovery and healing intergenerational trauma.
JACLYN DESFORGES is the queer and neurodivergent author of Danger Flower (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books), winner of the 2022 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and one of CBC's selections for the best Canadian poetry of 2021. She's also the author of Why Are You So Quiet? (Annick Press, 2020), a picture book which was shortlisted for a Chocolate Lily Award and selected for the 2023 TD Summer Reading Club.
Jaclyn served as the 2023/2024 Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer In Residence at McMaster University and Hamilton Public Library. She is a Pushcart-nominated writer and the winner of several prizes, including the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. Jaclyn was a finalist for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize and the 2023 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize.
Jaclyn’s writing has been featured in literary magazines across North America. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and lives in Hamilton with her partner and daughter.
Mike Madill’s poems have been published in literary journals across Canada, as well as in the United States, including in The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Devour, Event, Existere, The Fiddlehead, Freefall, The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, Untethered, Vallum, Verse Afire, White Wall Review and The Windsor Review. He was shortlisted for Freefall's 2019-20 Poetry Contest, and an Honourable Mention in the inaugural 2021 Don Gutteridge Poetry Award Contest earned him publication of his debut collection, 'The Better Part of Some Time'.
When not writing, Mike pursues freelance editing, including volunteering as a first reader for the literary journal, Untethered. He has also taken turns as a social worker, computer analyst and home contractor. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from York University.
He's a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Ontario Poetry Society, Editors Canada, the South Simcoe Arts Council, and the New Tecumseth Public Library's Poetry Circle and Wordsmiths Writing Group.