Growing Room Festival presents By Blood, By Choice: Exploring Family and Community in Writing
With Gwen Benaway (author of the forthcoming book, Holy Wild), Joanne Arnott, Gurjinder Basran, Maggie de Vries, Clea Roberts, Bev Sellars
Moderator: Minelle Mahtani

Spend your morning exploring the dynamics of family and community in writing. What is family and how do writers reconcile these relationships on the page? How does one’s community play into a writer’s narrative? Deconstructing these questions from different genres, perspectives and experiences, our panelists will discuss how they make these concepts form on the page and how they use these influences to dictate their works (or not).

This event will feature ASL Interpretation