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Join local author Adelle Purdham as she launches her debut memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself. This event will include light refreshments, an author talk facilitated by Hollay Ghadery, an audience Q&A, and a book...

Join local author Adelle Purdham as she launches her debut memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself. This event will include light refreshments, an author talk facilitated by Hollay Ghadery, an audience Q&A, and a book signing.

Books will be available for purchase.

Adelle Purdham is an educator, parent, disability advocate, and author of the memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024). Her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle’s essays are finalists in several literary contests, including: The Writer’s Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition, EVENT Magazine and The Fiddlehead’s Creative Nonfiction Contests. Adelle is a sessional course instructor at Trent University where she teaches creative writing. She lives and writes in her hometown, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario. Visit her online: www.adellepurdham.ca