Tue, Nov 05
|via Zoom
ISCEI Talk with Billy-Ray Belcourt
ISCEI is thrilled to extend a special invitation to you for an afternoon with Billy-Ray Belcourt, this year’s Writer in Residence.
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
via Zoom
About the event
About Billy-Ray Belcourt:
Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a renowned author with five books to his name, including A Minor Chorus and the forthcoming Coexistence. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Belcourt’s works explore a diverse array of topics, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy, queer sexuality, and the pivotal role of Indigenous women in social resistance movements. Notably, his poetry collection This Wound is a World was recognized as one of CBC's top ten poetry collections in 2017 and won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Moreover, Belcourt is the recipient of esteemed accolades such as the Rhodes Scholarship, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and two BC and Yukon Book Prizes.
We look forward to seeing you there! Please feel free to share this invitation with others.
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