Victoria Festival of Authors-Riel Work: In conversation with Jean Teillet & Gregory Scofield

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Jean Teillet is an aboriginal rights lawyer, author, and great-grand-niece of Métis leader Louis Riel. Her latest book, The North-West Is Our Mother, is a comprehensive history of the Métis people up to the present day.

Gregory Scofield is an award-winning author, as well as a beadworker and collector of indigenous textiles. His latest book of poetry, Witness, I Am, includes a meditation on missing and murdered indigenous women (reports of whom he tweets almost daily).

This discussion brings together two authors whose writing informs and is informed by their work in other fields, whose role in their communities is defined by their contributions: artistic, activist, and everyday.

It’s happening! The fourth annual Victoria Festival of Authors launches October 2019 with a fantastic lineup of local and national authors. Join us for seven days of readers and writers celebrating words and engaging with ideas. Listen to inspiring readings, check out the diverse voices on discussion panels, and attend workshops to develop your own craft.

Connect, Celebrate, Inspire
The Victoria Festival of Authors celebrates great books, great writers, and great readers. We’re here to connect book-makers and book lovers. The Victoria Festival of Authors hosts readings and discussions, as well as workshops and master classes, to inspire both developing and established writers.Authors from across the country share their writing, their ideas, and writing techniques at the annual Victoria Festival of Authors each September. Between festivals, local and visiting authors read at regular salons, and coach writers of all levels in our inspirational island city.The Victoria Festival of Authors embraces poets, fiction and creative non-fiction writers, and other storytellers who come from a spectrum of communities and from all levels of a writing career.We are a community-based group devoted to literature in its many forms. The not-for-profit Victoria Festival of Authors Society incorporated in 2016, to bring sustainability to the ongoing efforts of the Festival.