Join the Tree Reading Series for their next event!

20:30 EST On Tuesday, March 29, Tree is excited to welcome featured readers Erin Soros and Jenna Butler

Erin Soros is a settler writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry and a Shadbolt Fellow in Public Humanities at Simon Fraser University, where she works on trauma-induced psychosis and the psychiatric and police response to it. This research has appeared in Sociologica: International Journal of Sociological Debate and in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies in a special issue on carceral cultures. Her poem “Weight” received The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and was included in Best Canadian Poetry 2020. Her lyric essay “Cord” received Gold at the 2021 National Magazine Award for “One of a Kind Storytelling.” Her fiction has received the CBC Literary Award and the Commonwealth Award for the Short Story.

Jenna Butler is an award-winning Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is
the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection
of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail;
and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book,
Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was
a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction. A BIPOC
writer committed to diverse narratives of place, Butler is a professor of creative and
environmental writing and an off-grid organic farmer in Treaty 6.

19:00 workshop by Elizabeth Mudenyo

20:00 EST open mic.

20:30 Erin Soros and Jenna Butler .