On October 7, Canadian author Lisa Moore will deliver the fifth Monica Miller Memorial Lecture. This series of lectures was launched at MacEwan University in 2022 to draw attention to women’s voices in literature. Each annual lecture features a prominent Canadian woman writer. Previous lectures were delivered by Jane Urquhart, Suzette Mayr, Alissa York, and Lorna Crozier.
The lecture honours CKUA host Monica Miller (1955 – 2019) and was begun by Monica’s husband, Ken Regan, who was CKUA’s CEO from 1997 to 2017. Monica was an avid reader and a champion of women’s writing and creativity.
This year’s speaker will be known to Can-Lit fans for her witty and poignant fiction. Newfoundland’s Lisa Moore is the author of the bestselling novels Alligator, February, and Caught; the short story collections Open and Something for Everyone; and the young adult novel, Flannery. She has won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, CBC’s Canada Reads, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award, and received nominations for the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Host Grant Stovel says, “I adore this series because it honours the cultural curiosity and lasting legacy of the brilliant Monica Miller, and it does so by bringing into being all these fresh, unique, interactive moments in our arts community!”
He adds, “Some of our most imaginative creative minds really get to let their inventiveness run free in composing a lecture on the topic of women’s voice in literature and the arts. So you get writers such as Lisa Moore digging into fascinating ideas and stories that they’re super-passionate about. The lecture and Q&A sessions that follow are inevitably illuminating, spontaneous, and spine-tingling, for author and audience alike.”
Hear Grant Stovel in conversation with author Lisa Moore as we look forward to the Monica Miller Memorial Lecture.
The Monica Miller Memorial Lecture will take placeat 7:30pm on Wednesday, October 7 at the Betty Andrews Recital Hall, Allard Hall, at MacEwan University, in Edmonton. This event is free. Find information and register to attend here.
