Alison Wearing

Alison Wearing is coming to a venue near you with a distinguished career that has made her an important figure in Canadian literature, theatre, and memoir writing. A writer, playwright, and performer from Peterborough, Ontario, Wearing has earned recognition for work that combines humor, insight, and thoughtful reflections on identity, family, and personal history. She first gained attention as a travel writer, winning a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for her journalism. Her debut book, Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey, was published in 2000 and received international acclaim, eventually being published in multiple countries.

Wearing later expanded her creative practice to include theatre and autobiographical storytelling. Her best-known work is Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter, a memoir published in 2013 that chronicles her experience growing up with a gay father in Canada during the 1980s. The book became a national bestseller, earned a nomination for the RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The memoir was subsequently adapted into a theatrical work that received numerous honors at festivals in Canada and abroad.

In 2020, she released Moments of Glad Grace, a memoir exploring her relationship with her aging father and continuing her examination of family, memory, and belonging. Beyond her published works, Wearing has served as a writer-in-residence at Canadian universities and founded Memoir Writing Ink, a program dedicated to helping writers transform personal stories into memoir. Through bestselling books, acclaimed theatrical projects, and a lasting contribution to Canadian letters, Alison Wearing has built a reputation for storytelling that is both deeply personal and widely resonant.

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