Diaspora Dialogues Partners With TIFA for the Women’s History Literary Symposium

Diaspora Dialogues is proud to partner with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for our Women’s History Literary Symposium, bringing together an exciting group of women writers to explore who gets to tell our stories, shape our literary history, and imagine what comes next.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.

On the program:

Reframing History: Who Gets to Tell the Story? | 3 PM
A conversation with Su Chang and Patty Krawec , moderated by Marci Sen, exploring whose stories make it into our histories — and what changes when we revisit the past through different perspectives.

The CanLit Canon at 100: Who Gets In, Who Gets Left Out? | 6 PM
Rachel Phan and Therese Estacion, moderated by Aparita Bhandari, look back at 100 years of Canadian literature and consider whose voices have been celebrated, overlooked, and left outside the canon.

Sex, Crime & Happily Ever After: How Women Took Over the Bestseller Lists | 11 AM
Uzma Jalaluddin and Jane Igharo, moderated by Jannie K. Velu, dive into the genres women writers and readers have transformed into cultural and commercial powerhouses — from romance and thrillers to speculative fiction and beyond.

The View from the Future: Who Gets to Write What Comes Next? | 2 PM
Mai Nguyen and Tea Mutonji, moderated by Eternity Martis, explore how a new generation of women writers is reshaping storytelling, representation, and what it means to be a writer today.