What a Trio! Starring Jenny Heijun Wills, Tessa Hulls & Teresa Wong

Prepare to be visually wowed. And have your heart open three times bigger. After devouring their books, we had to give Jenny Heijun Wills (Everything and Nothing at All), Tessa Hulls (Feeding Ghosts), and Teresa Wong (All Our Ordinary Stories) the opportunity to share a stage. Though they each weave a unique tapestry in their work, across countries, cultures and genres, they write toward common threads of family, belonging, and community that are at the heart of what it means to be human. Heijun Wills’s book has been nominated for the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, while graphic novelist Hulls is up for the 2024 Kirkus Prize. And Wong is Calgary’s comics treasure.

Festival favourite Kyo Maclear wrote this about Heijun Willis’s latest, but she could easily be referring to all three books: “What does a book look like when it subverts narrow stories of kinship and ancestry, when it refuses to pander or be pinned down and possessed, when it upends crushing dichotomies, fixed definitions, forced choices? It looks like this. Defiantly wise. Unbeautifully beautiful. Capaciously loving. Mutinous.”

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 75-minute hosted conversation with visuals
• Pre-Submitted Questions
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl's Nest Books
• Post-Show Signing and Author Selfies

This show is part of Wordfest’s Imaginairium festival, Oct. 15 to 21, 2024. Connect with 50+ of the world’s most arresting writers, thinkers, activators, and inspirers, gathered just for you in Calgary, Canada. For more info: wordfest.com