GILLIAN SZE

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Selected Dialogues

  • "On Poetic Origins, Creative Space, and Writing Across Genres" on Puritan Magazine (Issue 57, Spring 2022)
  • Featured Author Profile for the Poetry Month Series on Quill & Quire (Poetry Month Series, April 2022)
  • Q&A With Gillian Sze and Michelle Lee, My Love For You Is Always on WNDB (August 30, 2021)
  • "Interview with Poet Gillian Sze" on Ruby Riddlestein (March 27, 2021)
  • "A Q&A with Gillian Sze" on Soliloquies (March 8, 2020)
  • "Five Questions for Gillian Sze" on QWF (October 9, 2019)
  • "Interview with Gillian Sze" on The Town Crier (December 18, 2017)
  • "Gillian Sze on the Meaning Behind her New Title" on Open Book (October 3, 2017)
  • "A Conversation with Gillian Sze and Teri Vlassopoulos" on Bookslut.com: January 2016
  • "A line, in fact, is immeasurable": an interview with Gillian Sze in Prism Magazine (March 23, 2015)
  • "In Conversation with Gillian Sze" in The Voice Magazine (Volume 22 Issue 32, August 2014)
  • « Portrait de l'écrivaine canadienne Gillian Sze » par Guido Furci et Marion Duvernois (L'Intermède: nov. 2013)
  • An interview with Poetry Quebec in Language Matters (Signature Editions, Fall 2013)
  • "How I Started Writing," aired on CBC's Cinq à Six: April 2013
  • "Q&A: Greg Santos & Gillian Sze" in carte blanche: Spring 2012
  • "SLS Interviews: Johanna Skibsrud" in Maisonneuve Magazine: June 2011
  • "Polaroid Poet" by Abby Paige in Montreal Review of Books: Spring 2011
  • "Gillian Sze, Transformative Experiences" by Alan Bourassa in Side Street Review: Spring 2011
  • "Poets in Profile" in Open Book Toronto: April 2011
  • "An interview with Branch Magazine editor Gillian Sze" in Black Heart Magazine: January 2011
  • "Women In Art: Gillian Sze on Writing Poetry and Creating Magazines" in Kickaction.ca: November 2010
  • "Writers-in-Dialogue: Fred Wah and Gillian Sze" in Ricepaper Magazine: Spring 2010
  • "Writers-in-Dialogue: Gillian Sze and Fiona Tinwei Lam" in Ricepaper Magazine: Fall 2009


    Selected Invited Readings & Talks

  • SCBWI Canada East Digging Deeper Workshop: Poetry and Picture Books with Gillian Sze. Oct. 15, 2022.
  • Greenwood Storyfest. Hudson, QC. Sept. 24, 2022.
  • Kingston WritersFest 2022. Kingston, ON. Sept. 30, 2022.
  • Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Eden Mills, ON. Sept. 10, 2022.
  • Festival de la Poésie de Montreal. Grande bibliothèque de Montréal. June 1, 2022.
  • Canadian Children's Book Week 2022: Sail into Stories/Tournée Lire à tout Vent. May 1-7. 2022.
  • "City Imagines: Parenthood." The Word on the Street (Toronto, ON). May 19, 2022.
  • Atwater Poetry Project, Online: January 21, 2022.
  • Poetry Reading - Centre des arts de Stanstead, Online: October 30, 2021.
  • "La vie...comme les chansons / Life...as a Song." Heritage Canada and Blue Metropolis: October 21, 2021.
  • "We Are AAPI Creators" - Panel. SLJ Picture Books Palooza. Online: July 15, 2021.
  • VerseFest, Ottawa, ON: March 27, 2019
  • The Ottawa International Literary Festival, Ottawa, ON: April 29, 2018
  • The Frye Festival, Moncton, NB: April 2018
  • The Atwater Poetry Project, Montreal, QC: March 17, 2018
  • The Word on the Street Festival, Toronto, ON, September 24, 2017
  • Days of Poetry and Wine, Ptuj, Slovenia: August 2017
  • Les Sympatiques' literature Round Table, Resonance Café, Montreal, QC: April 1, 2015
  • Words After Dark Reading: QWF 2014 Awards Finalists, Montreal, QC: October 30, 2014
  • carte blanche's 10th Anniversary, Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, QC: October 29, 2014
  • Writers Out Loud 2013 (QWF), University of Sherbrooke and Bishop's University: September 26, 2013
  • H for Histoires, ABC: Montreal (Nuit Blanche), Canadian Centre for Architecture: March 2, 2013
  • National Poetry Month Celebration, Chapters Indigo, Montreal, QC: April 29, 2012
  • The Irving Layton Centenary Celebration, Concordia University: March 11, 2012
  • SLS Montreal: Reading & Panel Discussion on The Online Journal, Concordia University: June 12-25, 2011
  • Poetry Cabaret Event (Ottawa International Literary Festival): May 1, 2011
  • Université de Montréal: 8th Annual Graduate Conference ("Literature on the Margins"): March 12, 2011
  • Writers Read at Concordia: Creative Writing Alumni Reading & Panel: October 21, 2010
  • 12th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, QC: April 21-25, 2010