Celebrating The 2024 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Shortlist

Speakers for this event

• Britta Badour

  Britta Badour

  Born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Britta Badour, better known as Britta B. is an award-winning artist, public speaker, voice talent, and poet living in Toronto. She is the author of the poetry collection and audiobook, Wires that Sputter, published by McClelland & Stewart. Britta is a Trillium Book Award Finalist for Poetry and her work has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, as well as longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Britta holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.

• Catriona Wright

  Catriona Wright

  Catriona Wright is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection, Continuity Errors, was published by Coach House Books in 2023. She is also the author of the poetry collection Table Manners and the short story collection Difficult People. Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Walrus, Grain, The New Quarterly, and elsewhere.

• Sanna Wani

  Sanna Wani

  Moderator

  Sanna Wani is a poet, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022), the winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She is the host of the podcast Poet Talk and a member of the Daybreak Poets Collective.

  Moderator