Karen Lee White
BIO
Biography

Karen Lee White is Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots from Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  Karen was adopted into the Daklaweidi Wolf Clan of the Interior Tlingit/Tagish people on whose land her most recent novel Bonewalker (2023, Exile Editions), takes place. Her first novel The Silence (2018 Exile Editions)  went into a second printing within six weeks of release. In 2018 Karen was commissioned by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity for Fables for the 21st Century. In 2017 Karen was awarded a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award for Writing by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her work has appeared in Exile Editions That Damned Beaver anthology, EXILE/EQ Magazine, Impact: Colonialism in Canada, and other literary journals. A playwright, she has been commissioned by theatres in Vancouver and Victoria.

ADDRESS
City: Victoria, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
GENRE
Adult Fiction, Adult Suspense, Adult Humour, Indigenous.
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Bonewalker
Publisher
Exile Editions
Year
2023
LINKS
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
unlimited
Presentation Genre
Workshops on Writing, Presentations on works, etc.
Presentation Length
30 minutes to 2 days.
Presentation Description
Presentation description

Readings with original music, questions.

Workshops on Writing:

Make Friends with Your Writer's Block

Fearless Writing

Why We Should Create (The World Needs Us! (to laugh, to cry, to feel)

Social Media "Marketing" 101

Writer's Press Kits (what should be in 'em)

Presentation Fee(s)
Negotiable
Workshop details
Audience Size
any
Intended Audience
any
Workshop Length
1 hour to 2 days
Workshop Description
Workshop description

Make Friends with Your Writer's Block:

Is there such a thing? Or is our inner Artist waiting until the birth? How to get your mojo back. How to keep the flow going and never stop writing again. How to reframe the whole experience.

Workshop Fee(s)
negotiable
School presentation details
Audience Size
any
Intended Audience
any
Presentation Length
any
Presentation Description
Presentation description

The joy of Writing, how to cultivate your Writing, taking risks, having fun with it!

Presentation Fee(s)
negotiable
EQUITY INITIATIVE
As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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