Join poet and writer Professor Ian Williams for a uniquely ‘Unreliable’ writing workshop, ahead of his Miegunyah lecture: ‘No One to Talk To: The Decline of Conversation’.

This two-part, multi-genre, collaborative workshop explores unreliable people and unreliable forms. By considering the appeal and dangers of unreliability, we will create work that tests our ethics of truth, certainty, and trust.

This is a FREE event, but places are strictly limited, so book now.

This workshop will be run twice, please only book for one session.

Workshop #1: Monday 4 August, 10am-12pm

Workshop #2: Wednesday 13 August, 10am-12pm

Venue: Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building (159), Parkville Campus

Tickets are also available to Williams’ Miegunyah Lecture on Monday 11 August, 6.30-7.30pm.

‘Unreliable Writing’ is co-presented with Union House Theatre’s upcoming theatre performance, Unreliable. Facing the messy reality of bad research and manipulated data, it looks at the personal and societal consequences of information and systems we trusted turning out to be… Unreliable. Tickets are on sale now.

About Professor Ian Williams

Professor Ian Williams is the author of six acclaimed books, including Disorientation, an essay collection on race, selected as a best book of the year by the Boston Globe. His poetry collection, Word Problems, considers the ethical and political issues of our time as math and grammar problems. His novel, Reproduction, won of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award for the best work of global fiction.

Reproduction was published in Canada, the US, and the UK, and translated into Italian. His poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone's Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. CBC named him as one of ten Canadian writers to watch. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Professor Williams completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. After several years teaching poetry in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Professor Williams returned to the University of Toronto as a tenured full professor of English, director of the Creative Writing program and academic advisor for the Massey College William Southam Journalism Fellowship. He was a former Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Program and has held many other posts, including Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris.