April 2025
Stitching Memories
Workshop for Manitoba Craft Council [in person]
January 2025-April 2025
Writer-in-Residence, Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, University of Manitoba.
January 2025
Preparing for Readings
Workshop for MFA programs in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction, University of King’s College [virtual]
November 2024
Sweaty Palms and Breathlessness: Preparing for Stressful Presentations
Professional Development Workshop, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia [virtual]
October 2024
Celebrating the Everyday: Letters to Smallwood, 1948-1950
Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society
October 2024
10 things watching chateau restorations on YouTube can teach you about archival research; or, archival play for writers (and how you can make the research process more interesting and engaging for yourself)
Workshop Session, Thrive Program, Breathing Space Creative [virtual]
October 2024
Foundations of Non-Fiction: The Personal Essay
9 week wkshp team-taught with Darryl Whetter & Sandra Phinney [virtual]
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
March 2024
Writing Rumble
Fundraising Event, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
March 2024
“Dear Mr. Smallwood: Confederation in the words of those who lived it”
Roundtable, Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society
March 2024
“When Archives Break Your Heart”
workshop for Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
September 2023
“(Re)Imagining a Sack: A Creative Writing Workshop”
Discursive Constructions of Gender, Race, Indigeneity and Disability
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
May 2023
“Archives and Life Writing”
Teaching Life Writing Workshop, Banff Centre, Alberta
September 2022
“Playing with Mud; or What Happens Where Water Meets Land: Thinking About Archives, Absences, and the Spaces Between.”
Keith Jefferey Lecture, Telling Stories conference
Centre for Public History, Queen’s University Belfast
August 12-14, 2022
Winterset in Summer Literary Festival, Newfoundland and Labrador
July 22, 2022
Mr. Johnson’s Flute
Wesley United Church, St. John’s, NL
a concert project supported by ArtsNL
July 2022
OchreFest, Ochre Pit Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
October 23, 2021
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (CAANS), Vancouver chapter
August 23, 2021
“Soul Food”
Unforked Podcast, CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1022-unforked/episode/15861911-soul-food
August 18, 2021
Authors’ Book Club: Authors as Readers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8S6ydMZRII
August 6, 2021
Ladies’ Reading Room: Women and Immigration
Votes for Women 100, PerSIStence Theatre, St. John’s.
July 20, 2021
Coast Lines Book Club Event (virtual)
Memorial University, St. John’s.
May 30, 2021
Draft Reading Series (virtual!)
Toronto, Ontario.
May 14, 2021
Workshop: Found Objects: Writing Identity With, Through, and Against Documents and Things (virtual)
Creative Non-Fiction Collective Annual Conference
May 2, 2021
Panel Presentation, Big and Beautiful Bodies (virtual)
Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Brampton.
March 6, 2021
Flute Masterclass (virtual)
Flute on the Edge, St. John’s.
January 29, 2021
GSWS Reads Author Event (virtual)
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
January 28-31, 2021
SPARKS Literary Festival (virtual)
Memorial University, St John’s.
January 10, 2021
Palm Beach Book Club (virtual)
November 27, 2020
Research in the Vaults: Unlocking Memorial’s Archives (virtual)
Research Week, Memorial University, St. John’s.
October 2020
New Westminster Public Library Author Festival (virtual)
New Westminster, BC
August 2020
Draft Reading Series (virtual)
Toronto, Ontario.
July 2020
“What Carries Us: Black History in Newfoundland and Labrador. Bushra Junaid and Sonja Boon in Conversation.”
Facebook Live Event. Co-hosted by The Rooms Provincial Gallery and CBC NL.
March 6, 2020
“Art Topics: Migration, Memory, Identity, and Art.” The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s.
December 2019
“Speculative Lives: Haunted Yearnings for Impossible Pasts.” (keynote)
Unhinging the National Framework: Transnational Life Writing, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 2019
“What the Oceans Remember: Reflections on Archival Silences.”
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
October 24, 2019:
Official Book Launch, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL
October 19, 2019:
Pre-launch event, What the Oceans Remember, Artisan Inn, Trinity, NL
September 24 and 25, 2019:
Thin Air 2019: Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival
August 26, 2019:
“Serendipity, Tactility, and Community: Library Research as a Practice of Wonder”
Webinar for ACRL-Choice. Archived here.
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