Event

Join us for an online workshop on writing for social justice with Halifax-based poet, professor, journalist, and abolitionist, El Jones! Open to all in HSS (with room for community-based writers if there is space)

Friday, February 18 from 11-12:30 NST

To register: https://forms.gle/AEV3kSmGWH5VrWaj6

Link will be forwarded to all registered participants one day before the event.

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and abolitionist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the 5th Poet Laureate of Halifax and a 2015 resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. El was the poet in residence at U of T Scarborough in 2021. She won 2 Atlantic Journalism Gold awards in 2018 and 2019. In 2016, El was a recipient of the Burnley “Rocky” Jones human rights award for her work with prisoners. She was the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. El received her PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and is an assistant professor in the Department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.

IMAGE ID: Poster features a photograph of El Jones on the right hand side. Below her face is a slash of white, like a piece of ripped paper, that spans the width of the poster. On it is an image of a typewriter and the text Writing for Social Justice. Along the top left of the poster is yellow text that reads El Jones. Beneath this, the text reads, join us for an online workshop on writing for social justice with Halifax-based poet, professor, journalist, and abolitionist, El Jones! To register: https://forms.gle/AEV3kSmGWH5VrWaj6. The bottom of the poster reads Friday, February 18 from 11-12:30 NST.