Ian Williams

Not here. Writer.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

It's been so good working with Anansi and CBC on the Massey Lectures. As nice as the cover is, I hope you spend more time on the inside.

[House of Anansi Press @HouseofAnansi]

Enough small talk. It's time for a special CBC Massey Lecture cover celebration!✨

With WHAT I MEAN TO SAY: REMAKING CONVERSATION IN OUR TIME, award-winning novelist and poet @ianwillwrite tackles contemporary communication and the lost art of conversation.

Available Oct. 8th!

[Literary Review of Canada @reviewcanada]

This week’s Bookworm makes a splash!

Read @adrianma on @ianwillwrite’s “What I Mean to Say” (@HouseofAnansi), Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This” (@doubledayca), and @davidvenn_ on @mattscace67’s “Jasper on Fire” (@sutherlandbooks).

https://t.co/mJpUAqPJO9

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Massey Lecture 1 here. Lecture 2 airs tonight on CBC Ideas.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

2024 CBC Massey Lectures: Canadian writer Ian Williams, author of "What I Mean To Say," says we urgently need to relate to one another — and make room for listening. https://t.co/lwyJQFd9bm via @cbcideas @ianwillwrite

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

https://t.co/N558mAkyYV Here's an interview I did with @NahlahAyed during the Massey tour. You can play it in the background while you "work." Nahlah takes conversations to interesting places better than anyone!

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

The Massey Lectures begin their broadcast life tonight on CBC. I hope it gives you something to discuss. Here's how to listen: https://t.co/sZbJJ2kOJu

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

So much to talk about in the US tonight. Please join us.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

The Massey Lectures aftershow. I'll be in Guelph on Tuesday Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Grab someone you haven't seen in a while and make an evening out of it.

[GuelphToday @GuelphToday]

Massey Lecture brings Ian Williams to Bookshelf this month https://t.co/OMNa3fHeb2

[Griffin Poetry Prize @griffinpoetry]

This week’s writing tip comes from Griffin Poetry Prize Trustee and 2024 CBC Massey Lecturer, Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite). His poetry collection, 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨, was shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Tuesday night. A U of T alumni reading. It'll be a book tasting.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Join us in Toronto for the final Massey Lecture with @NahlahAyed and a couple of surprises.

[Nahlah Ayed @NahlahAyed]

Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? For one, we often forget that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. Come listen next week to the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures What I Mean to Say: by ⁦@ianwillwrite⁩ https://t.co/MuunMAAssQ

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Thanks to @thewalrus for publishing this excerpt from the 2024 Massey Lectures. The lectures are about conversation, sure, and also about friendship, strangers, loneliness, and much more.

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

In a world of screens and silence, @ianwillwrite, who is giving the 2024 @CBC Massey Lectures, reflects on how living alone shapes our conversations, from missed phone calls to fleeting gym encounters.

https://t.co/fEeqYj2VeP

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

If you'll be in New York in November:

[House of Anansi Press @HouseofAnansi]

Another signing dump! ✍️

@ianwillwrite, @Augengrau, Tasneem Jamal, and @afmoritz dropped by the office to sign copies of their books.

Learn more about their work at https://t.co/UtpKQRLJza.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

It's my book's birthday! From 1961 to the present, what a collection of ideas the Massey Lectures have given Canada!

[House of Anansi Press @HouseofAnansi]

WHAT I MEAN TO SAY by @ianwillwrite joins the CBC Massey Lecture shelf today! 📚

Learn more about the book at https://t.co/UtpKQRLbJC and find out where Ian will be lecturing on the @cbcideas webpage!

@MasseyCollege

[Massey College @MasseyCollege]

Ian Williams @ianwillwrite will be in Toronto for the final leg of the #CBCMasseyLectures on October 29 at @KoernerHall. Get your tickets: https://t.co/HXcno66an6

We look forward to hosting the #booklaunch today at 4:00pm.

@HouseofAnansi @CBC @cbcradio @cbcideas

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Here's the vibe on stage for the first CBC Massey Lecture in Sydney, NS. It'll be part lecture, part theatre. We have local talent from CBC Cape Breton reading parts. We're not gonna have your average lecture for these Massey's.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

@AngusMacCaull @CabotTrailWrite Thank you, Angus! Didn't show up in my initial results strangely, but I have this search problem with X.

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

The Cabot Trail Writers Festival in Cape Breton runs from Oct 4 to Oct 6. I can't find it on X and I'm not participating in the festival but doesn't it look like something that's been too well kept a secret? https://t.co/en4t4dMEtw

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Looking forward to co-leading some workshops in Iqaluit as part of the CBC Massey Lecture tour. We're planning to do some cool things at every location. And if you have ideas, reach out.

[Pauline Holdsworth @holdswo]

While we’re in Iqaluit, @ianwillwrite & @Inhabit_Media’s Jamesie Fournier will be teaching two free creative writing workshops at the Iqaluit Centennial Library.

Oct. 8 - Junk Drawer: Writing from Objects.

Register for free: https://t.co/zV504ffxJi

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Plus, translations of that lecture will be available in Inuktitut.

[Nahlah Ayed @NahlahAyed]

The @cbcideas #masseylectures making history next month: first time in Iqaluit. Come listen to @ianwillwrite tickets here.
https://t.co/VsmfB3r2j4

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

Oh, how this tweet has aged in three months. All the things we don't know we don't know...

[Ian Williams @ianwillwrite]

I think we Canadians are in the rare and wonderful position of having a national literature predominantly shaped by women. I'm thinking of Alice Munro, of course, the initiative of the @ShieldsPrize for women, and Canadian Shakespeare herself @MargaretAtwood.