UPCOMING EVENTS

Blood Belies: Author Touring Dates - Fall/Winter 2024-2025
[ in person ]

• ​Oct. 2 - Ottawa, ON - Featured Reader at the Echo Poetry Night
  • ​Haven CUSA, 43 Seneca Street
  • 6:00pm ET
• Oct. 8 - Ottawa, ON - Guest Reader at Ashley-Elizabeth Best's Launch of Bad Weather Mammals
  
  • ​Perfect Books, 258a Elgin Street
    
  • 7:00pm ET
    
• Oct. 25 - Ottawa, ON - The Poetry Cabaret with Dina Del Bucchia, Matthew Walsh & Shani Mootoo
  • ​Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street
  • 8:00pm ET
• Nov. 21 - Picton, ON - P.E.P Rally Reading Series with Ashley-Elizabeth Best
  • ​Books & Company, 289 Main Street
  • 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
• Nov. 24 - Ottawa, ON - Guest Reader at Cory Lavender's Launch of Come One Thing Another
  • ​Perfect Books, 258a Elgin Street
  • 7:00pm ET
• Jan. 22 - London, ON - Antler River Poetry with Ronna Bloom
  • ​Landon Branch London Public Library, 167 Wortley Road
  • ​7:00pm ET

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PAST EVENTS (SELECTED)

Blood Belies: Author Touring Dates - Fall 2024
​[ in person ]

• Sep 13 - Victoria - Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series​
• Sep 18 - Vancouver - Book Launch at Massy Arts Society (in partnership with Massy Books)
• ​Sep 20 - Denver - Panel Presentation & Reading at margins literary conference + book festival
• Sep 25 - Calgary - Book Launch at Shelf Life Books
  

Blood Belies: Author Touring Dates - Spring 2024
​[ in person ]

• May 1 - Ottawa - Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers celebrates Asian Heritage Month
• ​May 5 - Hamilton - LitLive Reading Series
• May 8 - Kingston - Book Launch at Novel Idea​
• May 23 - Toronto - Book Launch at Another Story Bookshop
• ​May 30 - Montréal - Book Launch at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly

AngelHousePress celebrates National Poetry Month - Apr. 13, 2024
[ via Zoom ]
ft. Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton and Amanda Earl

Double Book Launch: Ellen Chang-Richardson x Chuqiao Yang - Apr. 07, 2024
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
featuring Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) and The Last to the Party (Goose Lane Editions)
​hosted by David O'Meara with guest readers Cameron Anstee and nina jane drystek

The Poetics of Possibility: A Workshop Series with Ellen Chang-Richardson
Part I: Tracing History - Oct. 21, 2023 // Part II: An Ekphrastic Intervention - Nov. 25, 2023
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
a workshop series exploring the themes and questions in Jin-me Yoon: Dreaming Birds, Becoming Crane
presented by Carleton University Art Gallery and supported by the Korean Cultural Centre Canada

Jin-me Yoon, "Becoming Crane 2 (Pacific Flyways)" (2022), chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening Reception of UNSETTLED: TRANSCULTURAL EXPERIENCES - Aug. 04, 2023 
[ Toronto, Canada ]
ft. curator talks and a poetry performance from Ellen Chang-Richardson​

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Canthius Poetry Panel at VERSeFest 2023 - Mar. 19, 2023
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
ft. Ellen Chang-Richardson, Natalie Lim & Sanna Wani
moderated by Manahil Bandukwala

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Love-In at Ursa Mtl - Feb. 14, 2023
[ Montreal, Canada ]
ft. Alexei Perry Cox, nina jane drystek, Rachel McCrum & Ellen Chang-Richardson

Book Launch: Assimilation Tactics by Ellen Chang-Richardson
Hosted by Coven Editions - Nov. 10, 2022
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
with special guests, Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin & Chris Johnson

Manahil Bandukwala & Ellen Chang-Richardson - Oct. 23, 2022
[ London, Canada ]
with special guest, David Janzen

Plan 99 Presents Mike Garry and Ellen Chang-Richardson - Oct. 15, 2022
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
with accompanying musician and poet, Liam Burke

​Ottawa International Writers' Festival - Oct. 6, 2022
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
Dream of Me as Water with David Ly
in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson

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untethered magazine's ReLaunch event - Jun. 15, 2022
[ Toronto, Canada ]

Five Poets - Mar. 09, 2022
[ via Zoom ]
ft. Jennifer Hosein, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Tyler Pennock, Andrea Thompson, and Charlie Petch

Speakeasy Reading Series - Oct. 18, 2021
[ Guelph/Toronto, Canada ]
ft. Catherine Bush, David Bradford, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Deepa Rajagopalan, and Mackenzie Wiebe

Draft Reading Series 16.5 - May 30, 2021
[ Toronto, Canada ]
ft. Sonja Boon, Kern Carter, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Mark Laliberte, Sanna Wani and Andrew Wilmot

​Ottawa International Writers' Festival - May 25, 2021
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
The Shadow List with Jen Sookfong Lee
in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson

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Poets in Pajamas #109 - Mar. 21, 2021
[ Knoxville, USA ]
ft. Ellen Chang-Richardson

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The EW Reading Series Presents: Nippy November - Nov. 07, 2020
[ Toronto, Canada ] 
ft. Colleen MacDonald, Carter Vance, Malgorzata Nowaczyk & Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ottawa International Writers' Festival - Sep. 11, 2020
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
Living with Dying Part One with Anita Lahey
in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson

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The Tartan Turban Secret Reading Series #26 - Aug. 27, 2020
[ Toronto, Canada ]
ft. Ashley Hynd, Manahil Bandukwala, Dominik Parisien, Ellen Chang-Richardson & Kristen Smith
curated by Puneet Dutt

Ottawa International Writers' Festival - Aug. 23, 2020
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
A History of My Brief Body with Billy-Ray Belcourt
in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson

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(un)told: original stories, told live - Ottawa #FringeAtHome Festival - Jun. 28, 2020
[ Ottawa, Canada ]
ft. Danielle K.L. Grégoire, Michael Lifshitz, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, Alastair McAlastair, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Morris Rothman & Judy Reid

Photograph on this page: courtesy of Curtis Perry.