Living Treaties: An Evening with Alicia Elliott
Join us for the signature event of Huron’s Treaties Recognition Week. Western's Writer-in-Residence Alicia Elliot will be reading selections from her award-nominated book A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, and discussing the importance of living in ways that embody treaty relationships. We hope you will be able to join us as we explore and discuss the importance of honouring and recognizing treaties in the post-secondary sector.
Please contact Kate Macdonald to acquire the Zoom ID and passcode: kmacd72@huron.uwo.ca.
About Alicia Elliott
Alicia is a Mohawk writer living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Washington PostMaclean'sChatelaine and Hazlitt, among others. Her essays have been nominated for and won National Magazine Awards, and her fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018, Best Canadian Stories 2018 and Journey Prize Stories 30. She was the winner of the Canada Council Grant for 2020-2021: Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Alicia was also chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Emerging Writer Award. Her bestselling first book, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, was nominated for the HIlary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, as well as named a best book of 2019 by CBC Books, Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and others. She's currently working on a novel.
