two-spirit,
Ojibwe/South Asian performer and playwright living in Toronto. She was named one of Now Magazine s 15 stage artists to watch, alongside Natasha Greenblatt. Bonell and Greenblatt co-wrote
The Election.
q11:52Yolanda Bonnell: Why the playwright is asking that only people of colour review her play, BugYolanda Bonnell is a two-spirit, Ojibwe/South Asian performer and playwright who s taking a stand with her play Bug, which is on stage now at the Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. She s made one request from the media: that only Indigenous, black or other people of colour review her play.11:52
Guarded Girls is a play by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman.(Playwrights Canada Press)
Adina Bresge
Poet Anne Carson speaks after winning the Griffin Poetry Prize for her genre-bending Red Doc , in a 2014 handout photo. Carson and author Thomas King are among the veteran writers nominated for the Governor General s Literary Awards. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Griffin Poetry Prize, Tom Sandler, MANDATORY CREDIT May 04, 2021 - 4:04 AM
Renowned poet Anne Carson and author Thomas King are among the veteran writers nominated for the Governor General s Literary Awards.
Each will face stiff competition from a rising class of wordsmiths to clinch the $25,000 prize in their respective categories.
Organizers named the finalists for the 2020 awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, on Tuesday â several months later than the usual fall announcement.