Memoirists Jenny Heijun Wills and Antonio Michael Downing speak at UFV's Why We Wrote It on March 18

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      The University of the Fraser Valley is presenting an online reading and conversation with memoirists Jenny Heijun Wills and Antonio Michael Downing on March 18.

      Wills is the author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related, which won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019. She teaches writing and critical race studies in literature at the University of Winnipeg.

      Downing is the Toronto-based author of Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming. In 2017 he was named by the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada's top emerging authors for nonfiction.

      The free event starts at 11:30 am Pacific time, and you can register here.

       

       

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