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2021

Writing | working on new manuscript begun in Scotland
Recommendation | The Essential Elizabeth Brewster on The Miramichi Reader‘s “Best Poetry of 2021” (Dec)
Launch & reading | The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, via Zoom, sponsored by the MFA in Writing program, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan (Nov)
Review | of The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, The Miramichi Review (Sep)
Recommendation | The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, 49th Shelf’s #TheSealeyChallenge (Aug)
Review | of The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, The British Columbia Review (formerly The Ormsby Review) (Jul)
New book | The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, Vol. 22, the Essential Poets series, The Porcupine’s Quill (May)
Mention | in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry anthology, edited by Amanda Earl, Timglaset Editions (Apr)
Poem | “Pangnirtung Arrivals” (from This Being) featured on University of Minnesota Duluth’s KUMD radio program “Northland Morning“, and read by environmental/social justice advocate Jamie Harvie. Listen to it here.

2020

Reading | The Fiddlehead 75th Anniversary launch series, online, with Jonina Kirton, Jean Van Loon & others (Nov)
Reading | A House in Memory by David Helwig, online launch, with Maggie Helwig and others (Oct)
Poems & a brief memoir | The Fiddlehead, 75th anniversary issue, feature edited by Brian Bartlett (Jul)
Recommendation | National Poetry Month, The Many Gendered Other Reading List, Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets (Apr)

2019

Reading | Resisting Canada anthology launch, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, with Nyla Matuk (ed.) and others (Dec)
Reading | Resisting Canada anthology launch, Knife|Fork|Book, Toronto, with Nyla Matuk (ed.) and others (Nov)
Two poems | Resisting Canada anthology, Nyla Matuk (ed.), Véhicule Press (Sep)
Reading | Fitzhenry & Whiteside Showcase, Knife|Fork|Book poetry bookshop, Toronto, with poets Anne Compton, Sarah Feldman, and Evan Jones (Aug)
Added to collection | This Being and The Essential Anne Wilkinson, Glasgow Women’s Library (Jul)
Review | of poems, The Malahat Review Issue #164 (Summer)
Writing residency | Elizabeth Bishop House, Great Village, Nova Scotia (Apr)
Two poems | “Ten Mile Point”, “Doorway” (This Being) on “Poetry Pause”, League of Canadian Poets (Feb & Mar)

2018

Launch & reading | David Helwig: Essays on His Works, Guernica Editions fall launch, Toronto (Nov)
Tribute | “Singular Voice, Unassuming Craftsman”, Guernica Editions (Nov)
Reading | “Lit Live” reading series, The Staircase Theatre, Hamilton, with Ray Robertson, Moez Surani, Mary Lou Dickinson, Cameron Anstee, and Liz Harmer (Nov)
Launch & reading | Room to Room: Poetry & Architecture in Conversation, Knife|Fork|Book poetry bookshop, Toronto, with co-poets Ted Landrum and Komi Olaf, and interviewer Elsa Lam (Nov)
Launch & reading | “An Evening with David Helwig” & launch of David Helwig: Essays on His Works, Beaconsfield Historic House, Charlottetown, PEI, with Deirdre Kessler, Hugh MacDonald, Simon Lloyd, and others (Sep)
Interview | “Mainstreet PEI” CBC radio show with host Angela Walker and Poet Laureate Deirdre Kessler re Helwig celebration and launch of David Helwig: Essays on His Works, CBC Studios, Charlottetown, PEI (Sep)
Book | David Helwig: Essays on His Works, Vol. #49 of the Essential Writers series, Guernica Editions (Sep)
Book buzz | David Helwig: Essays on His Works, Numéro Cinq magazine (Jul)
Essay | in Am, Be: The Poetry of Wayne Clifford, Frog Hollow Press, literary criticism monograph #6, with M. Travis Lane, Jeffery Donaldson, and editor Shane Neilson
CBC Recommendation | This Being, CBC’s “Ultimate Canadian Poetry List“, 7/68 (May)
Guest appearance | Canadian Independent Booksellers Day, Blue Heron Books, Uxbridge, with Rob Winger, Jessica Westhead, David Wolfman, and Alissa York (Apr)
Book buzz | “Five Short Poems by Anne Wilkinson”, The Essential Anne Wilkinson, “The Neglected Books Page” blog (US) (Apr)
Review | of This Being, ARC Poetry magazine, Winter 2018 print issue (Mar)
Writing Residency | Fellowship, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Scotland, UK (Feb-Mar)

2017

Guest author | WCDR Round Table Pro Panel, Writers’ Community of Durham Region, Whitby (Dec)
Guest speaker | “Artist Meet-up”, Station Gallery, Whitby (Dec)
Feature | “Filling in the Blanks” about ReVisions exhibition, Slowcity magazine, Oshawa (Nov)
Publication | Ingrid Ruthig, ReVisions, with essay by Whitby Station Gallery curator Olex Wlasenko
Reading & workshop | “What Will They Know of Us?”, Re|Visions solo show, Station Gallery, Whitby (Nov)
Interview | “Unravelling Strands, Reweaving History: An Interview with Ingrid Ruthig”, Station Gallery
Review | of This Being, Canadian Architect magazine (Oct)
Solo exhibition | Ingrid Ruthig: ReVisions, Station Gallery, Whitby (Oct-Dec)
Interview | “Curiosity and the Ordinary“, Transactions with Beauty with Shawna Lemay (Aug)
Poetry award | This Being wins League of Canadian Poets 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Jun)
Interview | “Women Writers: Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Alexandra Oliver, Ingrid Ruthig”, League of Canadian Poets
Q&A | “National Poetry Month and Beyond: Recommendations”, League of Canadian Poets (Spring)
Guest speaker | Durham Reach exhibition “Tour & Talk”, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (Feb)
Quoted | Toronto Star, Durham Reach exhibition featured in Sunday Edition (Feb)
Print feature | Durham Reach exhibition catalogue, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Group exhibition | “Portrait of the Redacted”, Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (Jan-Apr)

2016

Guest speaker | Durham District School Board, Whitby (Dec)
Reading | Hot-Sauced Words poetry series, Toronto (Nov)
Author feature | St. Marys Journal Argus print edition & Metroland online (Oct)
Radio interview | “HOWL” CIUT 89.5FM, with host Nancy Bullis, Toronto (Sep)
Guest speaker | Spirit of the Hills writing group, Grafton (Sep)
Reading | East Coast launch of This Being, with guest poet Brian Bartlett, Halifax, NS (Sep)
Television interview | “Telling Stories with Jules Carlysle”, 2016-17 season, Episode 3, Rogers TV (Sep & Oct)
Reading | “Lay Your Word Down” poetry series, Cobourg, ON (Jul)
Interview | “12 or 20 questions”, with rob mclennan (Jul)
Book appearance | This Being, Showcase 2016, Poets House, New York City (Jul)
Review | of This Being, Northumberland Today (Jun)
Recommendation | This Being, 49th Shelf’s “On Our Radar: The Summer Edition” (Jun)
Launch & reading | This Being, Toronto launch, Ben McNally Books, Toronto (Jun)
Interview | SlowCity magazine, with Will McGuirk (May)
Poem | “Sprung“, Sunday Poem selection, Vehicule Press (May)
Feature | “Altered States: Poems from This Being“, Numéro Cinq magazine (May)
Launch & reading | This Being, Durham Region launch, Station Gallery, Whitby (May)
Reading | Ontario Writers’ Conference Festival of Authors, with Teva Harrison and Andrew F. Sullivan, Ajax (Apr)
Teaching resource | “Unpacking Poetry: Exploring the Essential Poets Series”, The Porcupine’s Quill (Apr)
Radio interview | Poetry Month, “Word on the Hills” show, Northumberland 89.7FM with hosts Gwynn Scheltema and Felicity Reid (archived podcast) (Apr)
Book | This Being, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario (Mar)
Tribute | Partisan magazine: “12 writers remember Canadian poet Douglas G. Jones” (Mar)
Interview & discussion | editing The Porcupine’s Quill’s Essential Poets Series, “Art Waves” radio, Hamilton, with Shane Neilson, Amanda Jernigan, and host Bernadette Rule (archived program #277) (Feb)
Poem | Sunrise with Sea Monsters (Feb)
Review | of The Essential Anne Wilkinson in The Bull Calf Review (Feb)
Review | of The Essential Anne Wilkinson in Canadian Literature 224, Spring 2015 issue (Jan)

2015

Poem | “Shift Change”, added to Toronto Poetry Map (Dec)
Group exhibition | textwork The Narrative of Marie, Station Gallery, Whitby (Dec-Jan)
Poem | “All That’s Left“, ‘The Litter I See’ Project (Oct)
Introduction | to Anne Wilkinson, Brick Books’ 40th anniversary celebration of Canadian poetry (Jul)
Featured | textwork The Narrative of Marie on Venus febriculosa blog, and listed a favourite in A Humument competition, judged by UK artist Tom Phillips (Jun)
Featured | “Ten great authors living, writing in Durham Region” (May)
Group exhibition | A Place to Stand, Station Gallery, Whitby (Apr)
Recommendation | The Essential Anne Wilkinson, a 2014 “Book of the Year” by CNQ Canadian Notes & Queries (Jan)
Reviews | of The Essential Anne Wilkinson — CanadianPoetries, Word to Word, and Foreword Reviews (Jan)

2014

Reading | “Lay Your Word Down” poetry series, Cobourg (Dec)
Group exhibition | Heads of Fate: Mary S. (prizewinner), Station Gallery, Whitby (Dec-Jan)
Reading | “Writers in my Residence” salon, with poet Stuart Ross, Whitby (Nov)
Two poems | The Antigonish Review #179 (Nov)
Book | The Essential Anne Wilkinson, poems, Essential Poets series, Porcupine’s Quill (Nov)
Article | Open Book Toronto’s “At the Desk” column (Nov)
Group exhibition | Oshawa Space Invaders Urban Art Festival (Sep)
Reading | “Words of the Season”, Durham Region’s Culture Days event, Pickering (Sep)
Cover art | (textwork Antoinette’s Head), Short Fiction Renaissance anthology, Piquant Press (Sep)
Interview & feature | “Codes, Texts & TexTiles: Art & Interview with Ingrid Ruthig“, Numéro Cinq magazine “Off The Page” series (May)
Live interviews | Ontario Writers’ Conference Festival of Authors, Ajax, with novelists Karen Connelly, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and Catherine Bush (Apr)
Group exhibition | textwork Antoinette’s Head, Station Gallery, Whitby (Apr)
Contribution | A Rewording Life anthology (Apr)
Community TA | University of Pennsylvania “Modern & Contemporary American Poetry” course
Poem | Mess: the hospital anthology, Tightrope Books (Spring)
Interview | “On the Weaving Together of Writers and Editors”, “Stories, Words and Whispers” blog (Jan)
Bookwork | The Arbitrary Text Of Wreckage, Brooklyn Art Library (Jan)
Group exhibition | dBooked, McLean Recreation Complex, Ajax (Jan-Feb)
On show | Confluence, Ontario Writers’ Conference (Jan)

2013

Reading & group exhibition | “Small Works”, The Vault, Oshawa (Dec-Jan)
Recommendation | Slipstream, Open Book Ontario‘s “Focus On: Durham Region–The Recommended Reads” (Dec)
Article | “Here Be Writers”, Open Book Ontario‘s “Focus On” series (Dec)
Group exhibition | TexTiles (prizewinner), Station Gallery, (jurors Anik Glaude, Gil McElroy, Alice Teichert) (Dec)
Live interview | Whitby Public Library, with journalist Bill Swan (Nov)
Feature | textworks, “Take a City” article, Matilda Magtree blog (Sep)
Group exhibition | Oshawa Space Invaders urban art festival, Oshawa (Sep)
Essay & guest columnist | “Linkage“, Encore Literary Magazine “Ephemeris” column (Aug)
Reading | “Summer Solstice Open Mic”, More 2 Life 4 Women magazine, Whitby (Jun)
Reading | launch of Daryl Hine’s A Reliquary and Other Poems, Ben McNally Books, Toronto with Evan Jones (ed), Nyla Matuk, Norm Sibum, and others (May)
Essay | “Driving Away”, Canada Writes HYPERLOCAL, CBC.ca (May)
Poem broadsides | “Rumours Of Sky” and “Timekeeping With A Friend”, ARKITEXWERKS (May)
Live interview | “Books & Brunch” event, Wooden Sticks Golf Club, Uxbridge, with Susanna Kearsley (Apr)
Reading | Poetry Month event, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville (Apr)
Artist’s bookwork | BinaReCodings, “Sketchbook Project 2013”, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY (Apr)
Recommendation | Richard Outram: Essays on His Works, an Open Book Ontario “Recommended Reads: Cobourg and Port Hope” (Apr)
Group exhibition | textwork BinaReCodings, Station Gallery, Whitby (Apr)
Guest curation | Open Book Ontario‘s “Ontario Literary Landmark”: Richard Outram’s former Port Hope, Ontario home (Mar)
Essay | “Only the Words” with images of The Etymologist’s Collection, CanadianPoetries.com (Feb)
Artist’s bookwork | BinaReCodings, “Sketchbook Project 2013” (Mar-Aug)

2012

Group exhibition | Station Gallery, Whitby (Dec-Jan)
Feature | “Poets on Art”, CanadianPoetries.com (Nov)
Live interview | “November Noir” event, Whitby Public Library, with novelists Ruth E. Walker and Allison Baggio (Nov)
Artist talk | “Super Sunday: Text Collage”, Station Gallery, Whitby (Nov)
Group exhibition | “Reading the Image“, Station Gallery, Whitby, with John Di Leonardo, Jean-Michel Komarnicki, Helen Bajorek MacDonald, Kal Honey, and Toni Hamel (Oct-Dec)
Launch & reading | The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 (eds. Molly Peacock & Carmine Starnino; Tightrope Books (Oct)
Solo exhibition | Slipstream, Town Hall, Ajax (Sep)
Group exhibition & award | “Book<>Art”, Blue Heron Studio, Uxbridge (Sep)
Group exhibition | Surfacing event, Station Gallery, Whitby (Sep)
Book review | National Post print edition (Jul)
Poem | Poet to Poet anthology, Guernica Editions

2011

Review | of Richard Outram: Essays on His Works, Northern Poetry Review
Review | of Richard Outram: Essays on His Works, NewPages.com
Two-book review | as Associate Editor, Northern Poetry Review
Print interview | Northern Poetry Review, with poet Leigh Kotsilidis
Feature & cover | East of the City magazine fall Arts issue — “Caught in the Slipstream” by Heather O’Connor
Group exhibition | Station Gallery, Whitby
Live interview | “November Noir” event, Whitby Public Library
Article | Literary Landmark, Open Book Ontario
Launch & exhibition | Slipstream, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville (Fall)
Book | Slipstream – a textwork, poem sequence and VAC-commissioned artist’s bookwork (Fall)
Book | Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Fall)
Feature | “On Writing and Mixed Media, with Ingrid Ruthig“, Open Book Ontario
Feature | “Who’s Who”, WCDR WordWeaver
Poems | The Antigonish Review Vol. 42, No.165
Group exhibition | Station Gallery, Whitby (Apr)
Live interview | Centennial Building, Whitby Public Library, with novelist Susanna Kearsley
Reading | Pandora’s Box Salon, Aurora Cultural Centre, in conjunction with Slipstream show (Feb)
Solo exhibition | Slipstream, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora (Jan-Apr)

2010

Group exhibition | Station Gallery, Whitby (Dec-Jan)
Solo exhibition | Fragments of the Missing, Whitby Public Library
Solo exhibition | Slipstream, Artspace on the Mezzanine, Clarington Public Library, Bowmanville
Poems | “Poem of the Month”, Parliamentary Poet Laureate’s website (Jun & Jul)
Solo exhibition | Fragments of the Missing, OPG Information Centre, Pickering (May & Jun)
Print interview | “Seven Questions, Now and Then”, WCDR’s “Reading As Writers”
Live interview | Whitby Public Library
Book review | Northern Poetry Review
Reading | Rogue Stimulus anthology launch, Mansfield Press, Toronto (Mar)
Print interview | Maisonneuve magazine, with novelist Rabindranath Maharaj
Poems | Ditch, anthology 4 (canadian) (innovative poets) by Trainwreck Press

2009

Group exhibition | Artspace on the Mezzanine, Bowmanville, with Jane Eccles, Olex Wlasenko, Jean-Michel Komarnicki, Sally Thurlow, Margaret Rodgers, David B. Gillespie (Dec)
Poems | Gloom Cupboard
Poems | Grain magazine Vol. 36.3
Book review | Quill & Quire (Dec)
Book review | Northern Poetry Review (Dec)
Profile | Surfacing arts magazine
Reading & discussion | “More Than Meets The Ear: Artists and Writers in Dialogue”, Clarington Public Library, Bowmanville

2000 – 2008

Work published pre-this-website can generally be found ONLY on paper. Ah, the good ol’ days.

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