Events
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Joanna Lilley leads a poetry workshop in a wall tent at the Northern Nights Festival (Photograph: Louise Dumayne) |
Storytelling Festival
Joanna is taking part in the inaugural Storytelling Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon, presented by Commissioner of Yukon Adeline Webber and Yukon Story Laureate John Firth.
Saturday 20 June 2026
9.45am to 6.30pm
Shipyards Park, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Fiction Fest
Join Joanna at the inaugural Fiction Fest, a fortnight of 36 free online events celebrating Canada's book scene and literary talent and featuring 121 authors.
Literary fiction author readings
Author readings featuring Andrew Boden, Joanna Lilley, Carter Vance and Jay Royston and hosted by Steven Hugh Westenra.
Sunday 21 June 2026
4pm PDT
Online
Free
Diversity in fiction: seeing ourselves and each other in stories
A panel discussion with Trinity Cunningham, Joanna Lilley, YR Liu and Jennifer Rahn, hosted by Steven Hugh Westenra.
Saturday 27 June 2026
9am PDT
Online
Free
Find out more and register.
Invite Joanna to your event or book club
Joanna has given readings, talks and workshops at as far afield as Iceland and Alaska as well as in her home town of Whitehorse, Yukon, and online. She's read on a train, boat and lakeshore and in a meadow and a gallery, as well as in libraries, theatres, cafes and community centres.
Reach out via the contact page if you'd like Joanna to join your event online or in person.
Joanna is also available for book club appearances. You can use book club questions to spark discussion about Joanna's poetry book, Endlings, which is all about extinct animals.
You can borrow Joanna's novel, Worry Stones, as a book club set at the Whitehorse Public Library in Yukon.
It wouldn't happen without them
Joanna is enormously grateful to all the organizers, funders and publishers who create and support events. She also very much appreciates the financial support of the Government of Yukon Touring Artist Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Union of Canada and other funders for all the events she's participated in over the years.
