Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker
TIA House · Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker Introduction In this interview, Parker discusses her experience as a Ph.D. Student at The University of New Brunswick, As…
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Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah
TIA House · Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah Introduction: In this interview, Fred Wah and Shuyin Yu discuss the conference, named after one of his first books, “Alley All…
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Joshua Whitehead: Why I'm Withdrawing From My Lambda Literary Award Nomination
This past week, Joshua Whitehead was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the Trans Poetry category. In a moving act of radical kinship, he decided to pull out. TIA House is…
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Peter Forestell: The Top Three Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Write About My Experience With Plagiarism
The Top Three Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Write About My Experience With Plagiarism By Peter Forestell In April of 2016, I discovered that a fellow PhD student in Creative Writing…
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Notes on Indiginegativity: An Addendum by Joshua Whitehead
You dig through your library and find Wacousta sitting in front of you, to its left, The Edible Woman , and to its right, In the Village of Viger ; stacked atop these: Street of Ri…
Read moreStatement from the TWUC Equity Task Force in Response to Niedzviecki editorial “Winning the Appropriation Prize”
We, the Equity Task Force of TWUC are writing in response to the editorial in the latest issue of WRITE. We are angry and appalled by the publication of “Winning the Appropriation…
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Paper Hearts Video Now Online!: TIA House's New YouTube Channel
At the request of several panellists as well as our friends beyond The University of Calgary, TIA House recorded the Paper Hearts: Gender and Power in Turtle Island Literary Commun…
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Nikki Reimer -- Hold Your Fucking Communities Accountable
Hold Your Fucking Communities Accountable: Defining and creating safer spaces for women, trans, non-binary individuals, and people of colour in literary writing communities by Nikk…
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Taking Stock
It's that time of year to look back, and I've been asked to name all the things that TIA House has done since it started for more official purposes. I thought that all you insurgen…
Read moreJill Yonit Goldberg: Decolonize This: On Taking the English Out of English Departments
One of the great joys of organizing TIA House events is the opportunity to bring together other writers and thinkers on questions of justice and aesthetics. This piece, by the Vanc…
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