2:00 pm, ET
11:00 am, PT
In Conversation with 2024 Freedom to Read Award Winner Brandi Morin
Thursday, February 27, 2025
11:00 am PST / 12:00 pm MST / 1:00 pm CST / 2:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm AST / 3:30 pm NST
60 minutes
Hosted on Zoom
Live captions available
Free Registration
Celebrate Freedom to Read (FTR) Week and join us in this important discussion with Brandi Morin, the 2024 recipient of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Freedom to Read Award. Tune in as we announce this year's FTR Award winner! Hosted by author Anna Shannon, this webinar runs approximately 60 minutes, including a Q&A period. TWUC members will have access to a recording of the webinar for 30 days.
Brandi Morin is the recipient of TWUC’s 2024 Freedom to Read Award. Morin is a writer of Cree, Iroquois, and French origin from Treaty 6 territories in Alberta. She has won multiple awards for her work, and has been published in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
Anna Shannon lives, writes, and teaches in Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2024 winner of the Brenda Strathern award and is writing a novel of historical Canadian STEM-inist fiction. She holds professional certification in technical writing and is a proud member of the board for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Her Treaty 7 home of Calgary/Mohkinstsis is located on the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina Nations, as well as the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. Her published works may be read on www.annashannon.ca.
