This bilingual event, presented in French with a bilingual Q&A, will be held at Maison de la litt\u00e9rature<\/strong> at 40 rue Saint-Stanislas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Les autrices<\/strong><\/p>\n Credit: Jonathan Lamy<\/p><\/div>\n Rachel McCrum<\/strong> is originally from Northern Ireland and has lived in Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, since 2017. From 2010 to 2016, she was based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her first solo show, Do Not Alight Here Again, <\/i>was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has toured and taught poetry and performance in Ireland, Scotland, England, Greece, South Africa, Haiti, and Canada.<\/p>\n Credit: Julia Marois<\/p><\/div>\n Am\u00e9lie Pr\u00e9vost has been writing and performing at spoken word shows for about 15 years. Having studied Theatre, she has learned to love team work and has the seven-years-long tour of her duo performance with Queen Ka, Fol ouvrage \u2013 Torcher des paillettes,<\/i> to prove it. She won the Paris poetry slam World Cup in 2016. She has published four books of poetry, notably Osti d\u2019pain blanc <\/i>(L\u2019Hexagone, 2023), finalist for the CoPo des lyc\u00e9en.nes award in 2024. Her latest creation, La belle-m\u00e8re \/ The Stepmother<\/i>, written in French and English simultaneously in collaboration with co-author Rachel McCrum, is her first step in writing and performing in English.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moderator:<\/b> Julia Caron<\/p>\n In partnership with Maison de la litt\u00e9rature & CBC Radio<\/p>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RachelMcCrum_2_Photo_Jonathan-Lamy-scaled-e1741802403223-150x150.jpg\")
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