Isabella Wang
SFU English department welcomes Carleigh Baker as newest Writer-in-Residence
November 8, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student On Friday October 18, the SFU English Department hosted a reception and evening of reading to officially welcome Carleigh Baker as the department’s newest Writer-in-Residence. As the fifteenth writer inaugurated by the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence program, she is well-suited to follow in the footsteps of Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, and, most recently, Ivan Coyote. Baker is a nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân/Icelandic writer whose award-winning poetry and short story work has been published in Best Canadian Essays, The Short Story Advent Calendar, and The Journey Prize Stories. She is currently working on a novel…
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Dr. Asel Omar and Anosh Irani find common ground on the topic of displacement
October 27, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student On October 9, 2019, a congregation of students and staff gathered for a long-anticipated talk featuring Dr. Asel Omar and Anosh Irani. Dr. Asel Omar is a Russian and Kazakh writer. Writing in Russian, she…
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o discusses the power of language at SFU Woodward’s
October 6, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student 25/10/2019: This story was corrected from an older version. In a previous version, Ayan Ismail’s name was incorrectly spelled as “Ayan Ismaili.” Editor’s note: This article covers the September 23 event titled “The Political Power…
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