Fireside Chat with Lydia Kwa
The Federation of BC Writers is excited to present a Fireside Chat with Lydia Kwa. This chat will be about an hour long and will feature our special guest host, Anna Ling Kaye. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Join us on October 12 at 7:00 pm Pacific by registering here and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.
Digital doors open at 6:55 pm!
Lydia Kwa was born in Singapore but moved to Toronto to begin studies in Psychology at U of Toronto in 1980. After finishing her graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, she moved to Calgary, Alberta; then to Vancouver, and has lived and worked here on the traditional and the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples since 1992.
Kwa has published two books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines, 1992; sinuous, 2013) and four novels (This Place Called Absence, 2000; The Walking Boy, 2005 and 2019; Pulse, 2010 and 2014; Oracle Bone, 2017). Her fifth novel A Dream Wants Waking has been published by Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn in Fall 2023. A third book of poetry from time to new will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024.
She won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2018; and her novels have been nominated for several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction.
She has also exhibited her art work at Centre A (2014) and Massy Art Gallery (2018); and has self-published two poetry-visual art chapbooks. An essay "The Wheel of Life: From Paradigm to Presence" appears in the art catalogue In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art, and Social Practice by Haema Sivanesan (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2022).
Anna Ling Kaye’s fiction has received the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and has been shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, the Journey Prize, and the PEN Canada New Voices Award. A writer, editor, and moderator, she is also a regular columnist on CBC Radio’s North by Northwest.
**This event will be recorded
