King’s announces its second annual Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA programs in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
This year’s conference theme is Writing and Storytelling as Resistance.
In conjunction with Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on April 25, 2026, the conference will address how storytelling and writing contribute to a renewed artistic age of resistance. As authoritarianism expands and power increasingly narrows and corrupts, what are our duties as writers and storytellers? Who gets to tell a story?
And while the traditional book publishing industry navigates the constraints and irrationality of late capitalism, what are the alternative modes of presenting, sharing, publishing and telling stories? How can writing, an individual practice, be mobilized to create communities of resistance? What is the role of writing craft in social change?
Registration and schedule will be available closer to the conference.
