An Evening with Author Wayde Compton

For over 30 years BC Black History Awareness Society has hosted a Black History Month program and provides projects and events throughout the year to recognize and celebrate the achievements and contributions of historical and contemporary people of African descent.

BC Black History Awareness Society

Conversation and book reading with the author, Q&A, acoustic musical performance, and book signing

St. Ann's Academy and Auditorium National Historic Site

Join us as we continue to celebrate and honour Black History Month with an evening with author and poet Wayde Compton, along with a musical performance by the talented Caleb Hart!Host and BCBHAS board member Megan Stuart will lead the evening guiding Wayde through questions about himself and his range of books, including his recent graphic novel. Following the conversation and reading there will be an acoustic set by Caleb Hart, followed by a book signing.Refreshments provided. Admission by donation. Please only donate if you are not experiencing financial barriers. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Everyone welcome.St. Ann's Academy is a National Historic Site boasting stunning restored historic interiors, including the Chapel and Auditorium.About Wayde ComptonWayde Compton has published five books and has edited two anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for three other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006 Compton co-founded Commodore Books, Western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-18, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. His latest book, The Blue Road, a fantasy graphic novel for young adults illustrated by April dela Noche Milne, was called a “touching allegory of the unexpected and burdensome trials of migration” in a starred Kirkus review. His next book is titled Anti-Racist Poetics, whichis forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press in 2024.

Author Wayde Compton. Photo credit: Roger Hur

The Auditorium at St. Ann's Academy. Photo from www.stannsacademy.com

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