
SFU Library's Non-Fiction Writer in Residence program
The SFU Library Non-Fiction Writer in Residence program emphasizes the power of non-fiction writing to share knowledge beyond academia, enhancing the SFU community's capacity to tell compelling research and scholarship stories. This complements the Library's growing activities in the area of knowledge mobilization.
The Non-Fiction Writer in Residence will:
- Deliver workshops on non-fiction writing for public audiences
- Showcase non-fiction writing that brings scholarship to a public audience through public events
- Offer opportunities for SFU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and staff to receive feedback and support on their own public writing projects
About Angela Sterritt, the 2023 Non-Fiction Writer in Residence
Spring 2023: manuscript consultations with the Non-Fiction Writer in Residence
Angela Sterritt is offering 30-minute non-fiction writing consultations for SFU students, faculty, staff, and postdoctoral fellows, including for opinion pieces, personal essays and memoir, features, or news articles. She is open to discussing both projects in the idea phase or manuscripts.
Note that Angela may not be able to meet all requests.
Submit a consultation request
Spring 2023: workshops with the Non-Fiction Writer in Residence
Writing through trauma: How journalists are doing things differently, to care for those in their stories and themselves
About the workshop
A conversation between Tamara Cherry and Karen Snowshoe, trauma-informed journalism experts, and Angela Sterritt. Not just for journalists but anyone wanting to have a trauma informed practice in their work and life.
This event is part of SFU Library's series of activities with our Non-Fiction Writer in Residence, journalist and author Angela Sterritt! Learn more about the Non-Fiction Writer in Residence events.
Speakers
Since 2009 Karen Snowshoe has developed a dispute resolution practice that draws upon her formal education, lived-experience and traditional knowledge generationally passed down through her Tetlit-Gwich’in heritage. Karen is a leader in providing trauma- informed and culturally sensitive investigations. As senior counsel with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S), Karen built, trained, and led a national team of statement gatherers who conducted trauma-informed interviews across Canada.
Karen is a highly sought-after educator in trauma- informed practice. Her customized workshops on Indigenous Reconciliation and Trauma-Informed Practice have garnered widespread acclaim for inspiring participant to engage in reconciliation in a way that honours the humanity and dignity of all. In the spirit of keeping people safe and grounded during sessions, Karen co-facilitates with a Registered Clinical Counselor rooted in cultural humility.
Karen brings a unique perspective to her work, which includes respect and appreciation for the diversity of peoples and cultures throughout British Columbia, Canada, and the world.
Karen has been a long-time resident on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), and Selí̓lw̓ itulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, today known as Vancouver. She also lived and worked in Canada’s north (the Yukon and the Northwest Territories) for 14 years.
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and author from the Gitanmaax community of the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt has worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist for more than a decade. She is currently the host of the CBC original podcast Land Back. Her book Unbroken, a work that is part memoir and part investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women will be published on May 30, 2023, by Greystone Books.
Register for upcoming workshops
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Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
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Ethics and consent in non-fiction writing
About the workshop
In this panel discussion, journalists and authors will talk about ethical approaches to writing about vulnerable communities, on sensitive and complex topics and when pushing for accountability from authorities that are being accused of harm. We will look at how extractive forms of non-fiction writing is being challenged by BIPOC journalists.
This event is part of SFU Library's series of activities with our Non-Fiction Writer in Residence, journalist and author Angela Sterritt! Learn more about the Non-Fiction Writer in Residence events.
Speakers
TBA
Register for upcoming workshops
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:00am to 11:30am
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via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
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January 2023 Event: Meet Angela Sterritt
The event is free, and open to the public. Presented by SFU Library and SFU Public Square.