Saturday, November 4th 7:30pm – 8:30pm EDT
Holiday Inn Sudbury, 1696 Regent St, Sudbury, ON P3E 3Z8
“With Britta Badour, Kirby, Stuart Ross, Therese Estacion, Tyler Pennock, and moderated by Kim Fahner. Join us as we discuss how and why these Canadian poets came to be drawn to poetry as their genre of choice. We’ll consider their distinct poetic pathways through life, why they think poetry is a powerful genre, and then we’ll ask them what they’re poetically fascinated by right now.”
Wordstock Sudbury is a Hybrid (On location and Streamed) festival.
About the Authors:
Britta Badour, also known as Britta B., is a poet and author of Wires that Sputter (McClelland & Stewart, 2023) living in Toronto. Her work has featured in notable spheres such as The Walrus Talks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Women’s Foundation, as well as literature festivals like The FOLD and LitFest Bergen. She curates an annual showcase called Soundtracks & Stanzas presented by Toronto International Festival of Authors. Britta holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.
Kirby’s work includes Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021) What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020) This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019) and She’s Having a Doris Day (KFB, 2017) They are the publisher, purveyor of fine poetry at knife | fork | book and Festival Director of the Fertile Festival of New & Inventive Works, Toronto. poetryisqueer.com
Stuart Ross is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize. He is a Cobourg-based fiction writer, poet, editor, translator, and creative-writing instructor and co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair. In 2008, he became a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, which puts on the annual Indie Literary Market and administers the bpNichol Chapbook Award.
Stuart is the author of twelve full poetry collections and five novels.
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two islands found in the archipelago named by its colonizers as the Philippines, before she moved to Canada with her family when she was ten. She is a teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability. Therese lives in Toronto. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine and shortlisted for the Marina Nemat Award. Phantompains is her debut book.
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury. Her most recent poetry collections are Emptying the Ocean (Frontenac House, 2022) as well as a limited edition chapbook, Fault LInes and Shatter Cones (Emergency Flash Mob Press, 2023). Kim is the First Vice-Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada (2023-25), a member of the League of Canadian Poets, and a supporting member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada. Her first novel, The Donoghue Girl, will be published by Latitude 46 in Fall 2024.
Find more information http://www.kimfahner.com
“Tyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), and Blood (2022) is a two-spirit adoptee queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They teach in Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto and is the Inaugural Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University (2023).”
Tyler Pennock 
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