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Ian Williams @ianwillwrite

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Ian Williams@ianwillwrite
14 Aug 2024
It's been so good working with Anansi and CBC on the Massey Lectures. As nice as the cover is, I hope you spend more time on the inside.
House of Anansi Press@HouseofAnansi
7 Aug 2024
Enough small talk. It's time for a special CBC Massey Lecture cover celebration!✨ With WHAT I MEAN TO SAY: REMAKING CONVERSATION IN OUR TIME, award-winning novelist and poet @ianwillwrite tackles contemporary communication and the lost art of conversation. Available Oct. 8th!
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Literary Review of Canada@reviewcanada
11 Mar 2025
This week’s Bookworm makes a splash! Read @adrianma on @ianwillwrite’s “What I Mean to Say” (@HouseofAnansi), Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This” (@doubledayca), and @davidvenn_ on @mattscace67’s “Jasper on Fire” (@sutherlandbooks). reviewcanada.substack.com/p/…
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Massey Lecture 1 here. Lecture 2 airs tonight on CBC Ideas.
André Picard@picardonhealth
19 Nov 2024
2024 CBC Massey Lectures: Canadian writer Ian Williams, author of "What I Mean To Say," says we urgently need to relate to one another — and make room for listening. cbc.ca/newsinteractives/feat… via @cbcideas @ianwillwrite
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cbc.ca/radio/ideas/massey-le… Here's an interview I did with @NahlahAyed during the Massey tour. You can play it in the background while you "work." Nahlah takes conversations to interesting places better than anyone!

'I believe in multiplicity': Why Massey lecturer Ian Williams stays open to all perspectives | CBC...

2024 CBC Massey lecturer Ian Williams speaks with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed at the Victoria Festival of Authors about the forces that have shaped him as a thinker and writer, from how he thinks about...

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The Massey Lectures begin their broadcast life tonight on CBC. I hope it gives you something to discuss. Here's how to listen: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2024-…

The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures will be available the week of November 18 | CBC Radio

Award-winning author and poet Ian Williams is this year's Massey Lecturer. Williams explores how to restore the lost art of conversations in his lectures series entitled, What I Mean to Say: Remaking...

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So much to talk about in the US tonight. Please join us.
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The Massey Lectures aftershow. I'll be in Guelph on Tuesday Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Grab someone you haven't seen in a while and make an evening out of it.
GuelphToday@GuelphToday
3 Nov 2024
Massey Lecture brings Ian Williams to Bookshelf this month guelphtoday.com:443/columns/…
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Griffin Poetry Prize@griffinpoetry
30 Oct 2024
This week’s writing tip comes from Griffin Poetry Prize Trustee and 2024 CBC Massey Lecturer, Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite). His poetry collection, 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨, was shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Tuesday night. A U of T alumni reading. It'll be a book tasting.
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Join us in Toronto for the final Massey Lecture with @NahlahAyed and a couple of surprises.
Nahlah Ayed@NahlahAyed
24 Oct 2024
Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? For one, we often forget that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. Come listen next week to the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures What I Mean to Say: by ⁦@ianwillwrite⁩ rcmusic.com/events-and-perfo…
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Thanks to @thewalrus for publishing this excerpt from the 2024 Massey Lectures. The lectures are about conversation, sure, and also about friendship, strangers, loneliness, and much more.
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@thewalrus
14 Oct 2024
In a world of screens and silence, @ianwillwrite, who is giving the 2024 @CBC Massey Lectures, reflects on how living alone shapes our conversations, from missed phone calls to fleeting gym encounters. thewalrus.ca/how-to-talk-to-…
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If you'll be in New York in November:
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House of Anansi Press@HouseofAnansi
5 Oct 2024
Another signing dump! ✍️ @ianwillwrite, @Augengrau, Tasneem Jamal, and @afmoritz dropped by the office to sign copies of their books. Learn more about their work at HouseofAnansi.com.
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A photo of Al Moritz taking a mid-book signing break to chat with someone just out of view. A stack of copies of Great Silent Ballad is on the table in front of him.

ALT A photo of Al Moritz taking a mid-book signing break to chat with someone just out of view. A stack of copies of Great Silent Ballad is on the table in front of him.

A photo of Kate Camp outside our office with How to Be Happy Though Human.

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Tasneem Jamal signing copies of I Never Said That I Was Brave.

ALT Tasneem Jamal signing copies of I Never Said That I Was Brave.
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It's my book's birthday! From 1961 to the present, what a collection of ideas the Massey Lectures have given Canada!
House of Anansi Press@HouseofAnansi
8 Oct 2024
WHAT I MEAN TO SAY by @ianwillwrite joins the CBC Massey Lecture shelf today! 📚 Learn more about the book at HouseofAnansi.com and find out where Ian will be lecturing on the @cbcideas webpage! @MasseyCollege
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@MasseyCollege
4 Oct 2024
Ian Williams @ianwillwrite will be in Toronto for the final leg of the #CBCMasseyLectures on October 29 at @KoernerHall. Get your tickets: rcmusic.com/tickets/seats/35… We look forward to hosting the #booklaunch today at 4:00pm. @HouseofAnansi @CBC @cbcradio @cbcideas

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Ian Williams@ianwillwrite
1 Oct 2024
Here's the vibe on stage for the first CBC Massey Lecture in Sydney, NS. It'll be part lecture, part theatre. We have local talent from CBC Cape Breton reading parts. We're not gonna have your average lecture for these Massey's.
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Here's the vibe on stage for the first CBC Massey Lecture in Sydney, NS. It'll be part lecture, part theatre. We have local talent from CBC Cape Breton reading parts. We're not gonna have your average lecture for these Massey's.
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The Cabot Trail Writers Festival in Cape Breton runs from Oct 4 to Oct 6. I can't find it on X and I'm not participating in the festival but doesn't it look like something that's been too well kept a secret? cabottrailwritersfestival.co…

Cabot Trail Writers Festival

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Looking forward to co-leading some workshops in Iqaluit as part of the CBC Massey Lecture tour. We're planning to do some cool things at every location. And if you have ideas, reach out.
Pauline Holdsworth@holdswo
25 Sep 2024
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While we’re in Iqaluit, @ianwillwrite & @Inhabit_Media’s Jamesie Fournier will be teaching two free creative writing workshops at the Iqaluit Centennial Library. Oct. 8 - Junk Drawer: Writing from Objects. Register for free: eventbrite.ca/e/junk-drawer-…
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Plus, translations of that lecture will be available in Inuktitut.
Nahlah Ayed@NahlahAyed
25 Sep 2024
The @cbcideas #masseylectures making history next month: first time in Iqaluit. Come listen to @ianwillwrite tickets here. eventbrite.ca/e/the-2024-cbc…
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I think we Canadians are in the rare and wonderful position of having a national literature predominantly shaped by women. I'm thinking of Alice Munro, of course, the initiative of the @ShieldsPrize for women, and Canadian Shakespeare herself @MargaretAtwood.
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Oh, how this tweet has aged in three months. All the things we don't know we don't know...
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