With author Wanda Taylor in conversation with radio host Sandra Henein
Award-winning author Wanda Taylor shares the stage with Sandra Henein, host of FM radio's Black Exposed, to talk about the differences in writing about Black history across ages and genres.
Taylor's latest book for middle grade readers, The Grover School Pledge, tells the story of Arlaina who bolstered by her father's childhood experience in the Million Man March, teams up with her no-nonsense classmate Nadia and other Grover School students to right a systemic wrong. Selected as the top book in children’s literature by Kobo Books, it's a true-to-life story about the pains and triumphs of growing up.
A Different Drummer Books will be onsite selling the The Grover School Pledge for signing after the talk.
Presented in partnership with Harper Collins Canada
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Wanda Taylor has enjoyed a varied career as a fiction and non-fiction author, journalist, screenwriter, college instructor, and former television producer. Her features have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Black2Business Magazine, and Atlantic Books Today, among others, and her essays and poems are anthologized in Canadian, US, and UK publications. She's a faculty member/mentor and instructor for the MFA Writing and Publishing program at the University of King's College. Wanda has won numerous awards for her cross-industry work, including the Women of Excellence Award for Arts and Culture.
Sandra Tyler Henein is an executive in the music and entertainment industry, and a former director of marketing for the JUNO Awards. Recently the recipient of the 2023 Rogers KW Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement award, she is the owner/chief event strategist for Black Exposed Entertainment, a marketing, media, and events company. She also created Black Exposed Radio on 98.5 CKWR and globally, Canada's only Black show on prime time FM radio with all Black Canadian music. Among her many projects, Sandra has managed world concerts, won CRTC Radio bids nationally, and spearheaded TIFF promotions and marketing.
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