Drew Hayden Taylor at ALOUD Festival

Drew Hayden Taylor will be reading from his novel The Night Wanderer (Annick Press, 2007) at the ALOUD Festival at the Harbourfront Centre in the Brigantine Room on Tuesday, February 12 at 1:00 p.m. Visit the ALOUD website for ticket into.

Drew Hayden Taylor has written, directed, or worked on approximately 17 film and video documentaries about Native issues. As one of Canada's first Native scriptwriters, he has story-edited numerous writing workshops for visible minority writers. In the last 15 years, over 60 professional productions of his plays have been staged, including Toronto at Dreamer's Rock/Education is Our Right, The Bootlegger Blues, and its sequels, The Baby Blues, and The Buz'Gem Blues. He has also been dabbling in the world of prose, writing short stories for various anthologies and writing a satirical column. A collection of his best pieces was published in a book titled Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway and its three successful sequels. He also co-edited an anthology titled Voices: Being Native in Canada. More recently, Drew has been directing documentaries, most notably Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The Night Wanderer (Fall 2007), Drew's book with Annick Press, was inspired by this documentary. He lives on his reserve in Curve Lake, Ontario, where he grew up. His website is http://www.drewhaydentaylor.co....