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An evening with award-winning poet, author, and academic Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Billy-Ray Belcourt's new book, Coexistence: Stories, is a collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness. Join the library in welcoming Belcourt to Squamish and come listen to the author read and speak about his work.
BILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he/him) is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut collection, This Wound Is a World, which was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. His bestselling memoir, A History of My Brief Body, won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Governor General's Literary Award. A recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and an Indspire Award, Belcourt is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Creative Writing at UBC.
https://billy-raybelcourt.com/
@nakinisowin
This program is supported by The Writers' Union of Canada.
Conveniently located downtown, the Squamish Public Library has a large meeting room, quiet study spaces, an outdoor pickup window, and an art gallery.
