VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION | Books to Break Barriers: Writers Panel with Carrianne Leung, Rowan McCandless, and Dominik Parisien

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Dominik Parisien, author of Side Effects May Include Strangers, will join Carrianne Leung and Rowan McCandless for a writers panel discussion Books to Break Barriers as part of InkFEST: Virtual Mental Health Writers Festival. The panel will be moderated by Kin Davids Mandar.

The discussion will address barriers, both internal and external, and question how they challenge the wellness, creativity, and publishing success of experienced writers who live with mental health issues, chronic illness, and disability.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

To be ill is to be a body bursting with strangers. A curiosity. A narrative to interpret. Dominik Parisien's debut collection is a poignant celebration of the complicated lived experience of disability, a challenge to the societal gaze, and a bold reconfiguration of the language of pain. Balancing hope and uncertainty, anger and gratitude, these poems shift from medical practice to myth, from trauma to intergenerational friendship, in an unflinching exploration of the beauty and complexity of othered bodies.

Dominik Parisien is a writer, editor, and poet and the author of the chapbook We, Old Young Ones. He lives in Toronto.