Telling Kitchen Table Tales

TELLING: Kitchen Table Tales is a fresh, warm and intimate twist on the traditional author panel. This event brings four trans-disciplinary women writers together around a kitchen table — talking to one another about their books, the stories behind their books, and the personal experiences that shaped their writing. Designed to feel more like being invited into a lively, thoughtful kitchen-table conversation, it promises to be reflective, funny, surprising and deeply human. 

A kitchen table is a familiar and powerful symbol. For women in particular, the kitchen table has often been a place of both tasks and dreams — a place where personal stories become shared memory. Audiences can expect a gently guided literary conversation that feels personal, accessible and alive. We invite you to join us for this intimate, distinctive, emotionally resonant, somewhat theatrical hybrid event: part author panel, part conversation, part shared storytelling experience. At its heart, Telling: Kitchen Table Tales is about the power of women telling stories in their own voices.

Martha Tatarnic, author of Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion and the Queen Who Changed History, Why Gather? and The Living Diet, is Co-rector at St. George’s Anglican Church in St. Catharines, and the Co-host of the Future Christian podcast; Plum Johnson, is a visual artist and writer, and is the author of The Trouble with Fairy Tales and They Left Us Everything, Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize; Susan Scott serves as a consulting editor with The New Quarterly and as a Wild Writers mentor, and is the editor and a contributor to Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers; and Carolyn Boll is the author of Social Dance: A Book of Ballroom Poetry, and is a word/collage artist, a cross-disciplinary arts curator and journalist, with a background in dance.