LEESA DEAN
WRITER/INSTRUCTOR/EDITOR
Select Readings and Festival Appearances
Nov 2022 The Filling Station Eastern Tour: Flying Books (Toronto) + Argo Books (Montreal)
Oct 2020 Changing the Face of Canadian Literature Anthology Launch (Virtual)
Sep 2020 Carousel magazine launch, Guelph ON
Oct 2019 Home and Away Reading Series, Oxygen Arts, Nelson BC
Apr 2019 Get Lit! Festival, Spokane, WA
Jun 2018 Salmo Library, BC
Feb 2018 Galiano Island Literary Festival, BC
July 2017 Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, Nelson BC
June 2017 Trillium Awards Finalists' Reading, Toronto, ON
Mar 2017 International Women's Day Celebration, Nelson, BC
Dec 2016 East Kootenay Library Tour, Cranbrook and Invermere, BC
Nov 2016 Book Launch, the Paper Hound, Vancouver BC
Nov 2016 Mother Tongue (featured reader), Nelson BC
Nov 2016 Pivot Reading Series, Toronto ON
Nov 2016 Women Behaving Badly, Toronto ON
Oct 2016 Book launch, Nelson, BC
Nov 2015 MIR Centre for Peace Lecture Series, Castlegar, BC
Feb 2015 Draft Reading Series, Toronto, ON
Nov 2014 Feminist Literary Salon, Toronto, ON
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2021 Writing in a Dangerous Time, ELMF, Nelson BC
2017 Careers in the Literary Arts, Get Lit! Festival, Spokane, WA
2016 On Reckless Prose and Reckless Women: Creating Female Characters Readers Love to Hate, MIR Centre for Peace
2015 On Empathy: Seeing the World through the Eyes of a Writer, MIR Centre for Peace
2013 “The Makings of a Writer.” Wild Writers Literary Festival, Waterloo ON
At the Trillium Awards Ceremony, Toronto
Photo by the OMDC