TIA House Blog

Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker

May 2, 2023

TIA House · Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker Introduction In this interview, Parker discusses her experience as a Ph.D. Student at The University of New Brunswick, As well…

Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah

February 15, 2023

TIA House · Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah Introduction: In this interview, Fred Wah and Shuyin Yu discuss the conference, named after one of his first books, “Alley…

Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead: Why I’m Withdrawing From My Lambda Literary Award Nomination

March 14, 2018

This past week, Joshua Whitehead was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the Trans Poetry category. In a moving act of radical kinship, he decided to pull out. TIA House is proud to publish his letter to the award organizers.

Peter Forestell

Peter Forestell: The Top Three Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Write About My Experience With Plagiarism

December 3, 2017

The Top Three Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Write About My Experience With Plagiarism By Peter Forestell In April of 2016, I discovered that a fellow PhD student in…

Joshua Whitehead

Notes on Indiginegativity: An Addendum by Joshua Whitehead

May 11, 2017

You dig through your library and find Wacousta sitting in front of you, to its left, The Edible Woman, and to its right, In the Village of Viger; stacked atop…

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Statement from the TWUC Equity Task Force in Response to Niedzviecki editorial “Winning the Appropriation Prize”

May 10, 2017

We, the Equity Task Force of TWUC are writing in response to the editorial in the latest issue of WRITE. We are angry and appalled by the publication of “Winning…

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Paper Hearts Video Now Online!: TIA House’s New YouTube Channel

March 8, 2017

At the request of several panellists as well as our friends beyond The University of Calgary, TIA House recorded the Paper Hearts: Gender and Power in Turtle Island Literary Communities…

Nikki Reimer

Nikki Reimer — Hold Your Fucking Communities Accountable

January 4, 2017

Hold Your Fucking Communities Accountable: Defining and creating safer spaces for women, trans, non-binary individuals, and people of colour in literary writing communities by Nikki Reimer Note on the text…

Jam Ismail

Taking Stock

December 6, 2016

It’s that time of year to look back, and I’ve been asked to name all the things that TIA House has done since it started for more official purposes. I…

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Jill Yonit Goldberg: Decolonize This: On Taking the English Out of English Departments

July 17, 2016

One of the great joys of organizing TIA House events is the opportunity to bring together other writers and thinkers on questions of justice and aesthetics. This piece, by the…