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<span style="">We're thrilled to welcome <b>Alicia Elliott</b> to The Reading Series at St. Jerome’s!
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<span style=""> Please join us on <b>Wednesday 4 March at 3:30pm in SJ2 1004</b>.</span></p>
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The opening act will be <b>Joanne <span style="">Tiotangco</span> <span style="">
Magbitang</span></b>.</span></p>
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<span style="">The readings are free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!</span></p>
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<span style="">Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for
<i style="">Globe and Mail</i>, CBC, <i style="">Hazlitt</i> and many others. She’s had essays nominated for National Magazine Awards for three straight years, winning Gold in 2017, and her short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018, Best
Canadian Stories 2018, and Journey Prize Stories 30. She was chosen by Tanya <span style="">
Talaga</span> as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Her first book,
<i style="">A Mind Spread Out On The Ground</i>, is a national bestseller.</span></p>
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<i><span style="">Special thanks to the Wilfrid Laurier University English Department (especially Tanis MacDonald) and Indigenous Student Centre, who we are partnering with for Alicia's visit.</span></i><span style="">
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