2026 Conference Theme: Rewrite the rules.
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Keynote Speaker 2026
We’re thrilled to announce that Michelle Good will be our keynote speaker for our 2026 conference!
Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree as a 43-year-old single mom and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years.
In 2014 Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm.
Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry in 2016 and 2017. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book of the Year Award, and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes.
On October 7, 2022 Simon Fraser University granted her an Honorary Doctor of Letters. On June 12, 2024, the University of the Fraser Valley also granted her an Honorary Doctor of Letters. Her latest work, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released May 30, 2023 and on October 4 2023 was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. In May 2024 Truth Telling was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the Indigenous Voices Award and won the High Plains Book Award. She was also named the University of Calgary Distinguished Writer for 2024/2025. She is the winner of the 2025 Indspire award in the Arts category.
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