Write Now! Creative Writers Speaker Series featuring Anna Chatterton, Writer-in-Residence and Jaya Sinha, Student Writer-in-Residence

Everyone is invited to hear some of Canada’s best established and emerging writers read from their work and discuss their craft.

Presented by Writing 2520A: Write Now! Writers on Writing, the Department of English and Writing Studies, and the Creative Writers Speaker Series at Western.

Anna Chatterton is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and performer known for bold storytelling. She is a two-time Governor General’s Award finalist and winner of the City of Hamilton Arts Award and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award. Her plays Within the Glass, Quiver, Cowgirl Up, and Gertrude and Alice have been produced across Canada and the United States.

Jaya Sinha is a fourth-year student pursuing a double-major in English Language and Literature and SASAH. Her writing has been published in Semicolon, Occasus, and the upcoming anthology book, The Alchemy of Stories: Essays on Literature and Life, as well as performed twice at Theatre Western’s Purple Shorts Festival. She could not pinpoint a theme in her work–largely prose and plays–if you put a gun to her head. One of the greatest loves of Jaya’s life is theatre: she is currently either directing a show or thinking about the next one. When not writing or directing, Jaya can be found crying in the movie theatre, having a good-natured argument, or taking hours to cook a simple meal.