The Giller Foundation, is pleased to announce the next Giller Power Panel. The February 15 event will celebrate Black History Month and is entitled AfriCanLit: Contours & Conflicts.

The panel will take place over Zoom on Tuesday, February 15, at 7 p.m. ET. Details and registration can be found at scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-power-panels.

The Giller Power Panels pull together creatives with a moderator each month to discuss the intersection of literature and other cultural and political expressions.

The February 15 panel will focus on writers’ craft, the relationship between art, community and politics, and some of the interesting debates/discussions happening within contemporary Black life.

Populating the February panel are authors Donna Bailey Nurse, Antonio Michael Downing, Francesca Ekwuyasi, and H. Nigel Thomas.

Scott Fraser, publisher and president of Dundurn Press, will moderate the panel.