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Join us for a fascinating conversation with award-winning author Billy-Ray Belcourt about how his most recent book of poetry, The Idea of an Entire Life, has evolved as he has, and what he has learned about his craft along the way, and what poetry means to him as a form. Learn about how to know if your story is best suited to fiction, poetry, or prose, how to find your authentic voice, and the bravery to express it. And on the business side,  Billy-Ray will discuss his dynamic relationship with his editor and will share his advice on getting published and promoting yourself.

Multiple award-winning author and academic Billy-Ray Belcourt. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. An Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, he has authored five books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, and Coexistence. Says the Edmonton Journal, “Belcourt, in a cutting, contemporary idiom, has made himself the urgent fresh voice of his generation…” A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta. Billy-Ray was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt was awarded a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders.

It promises to be a fascinating discussion!

North Vancouver City Library, 6:30-8:30 pm.

120 14th St. W