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WOW Guest Speaker
April 16, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stapleton HallABYC Women on The Water:Presents Sailing Towards Story: Relative to Wind Book Talk with Phoebe Wang
Sailing Towards Story: Relative to Wind Book Talk
Introducing Phobe Wang
Bio
Phoebe Wang is a Chinese-Canadian writer and editor from Ottawa, Ontario and has written two previous poetry collections, Admissions Requirements (McClelland and Stewart 2017) and Waking Occupations (McClelland and Stewart 2022). She is a mentor and adjunct professor in the University of Toronto MA in Creative Writing program. She works as a Writing Consultant for Multilingual Students at OCAD University. Phoebe began crewing on keelboats in 2009, and is a member of Queen City Yacht Club and the Toronto Sailing and Canoe Club. She volunteers as the education officer with the Canadian Asian Sailors. Recently, she has become the skipper of a wooden Wayfarer dinghy, Opus 3. More of her work can be found at www.alittleprint.com.
The link to her book can be found here: https://assemblypress.
Description
Author Phoebe Wang will read from her collection of nonfiction essays, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft and Community which is based on her experiences racing and crewing in Toronto’s harbour and Lake Ontario. She will share her story of learning to sail as a newcomer to the sport, and as one of the few women of colour at her yacht club. She will also detail the writing, research and publication process for those also looking to share their own unique story. The reading and presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.