Author Olive Senior on the Writing Life (Margaret Laurence Lecture 2019)

Jamaican Canadian writer Olive Senior shares observations and insights from her writing life in the Margaret Laurence Lecture. She details her upbringing in Jamaica and the influence of the island’s culture and its peoples on her development as a writer, as well as her education and eventual migration to Canada. The lecture was recorded in Halifax’s Central Public Library during the 2019 OnWords Conference and was presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.