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Oxygen hosts author reading series featuring Alicia Elliott and Brandi Bird

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April 2nd, 2024

Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to present the first event of 2024’s Author Reading Series featuring Alicia Elliott and Brandi Bird, and emerging writer Morrigan Bonegardenerat an online reading event on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 1 p.m. PST (Zoom).

To attend, please register in advance.

This event is free, everyone welcome!

Elliott is a Mohawk writer joining us from Brantford, Ontario with her second book, And Then She Fell, a novel that was published last fall, was also a national bestseller, and was a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year.

Joining Elliott is Bird, an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory, whose first full-length poetry collection The All + Flesh was published by House of Anansi Press in Fall 2023.

The event also features emerging writer, Morrigan Bonegardener who is a first-year creative writing student at Selkirk College in Castlegar, and a Queer, Transgender Woman whose writing style and voice reflect her lived experience.

The free, online event will feature readings by all three authors, as well as a short question and answer period at the event. Join us on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 1 p.m. PST (Zoom).  for a reading event featuring Alicia Elliott, Brandi Bird, and Morrigan Bonegardener.

The event will be emceed by Author Reading Series committee member Clayton McCann. Registration is required in advance.

Learn more about this event and upcoming events and workshops in the Author Reading Series by visiting Oxygen’s website.

This program is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.

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