Presented By: Comox Valley Community Justice Centre & Sid Williams Theatre Society
Presenting Partners
Kumugwe Cultural Society, North Island College, Comox Valley Community Foundation
Sponsored by
Sure Copy Courtenay, Laughing Oyster Bookshop
This evening with the award-winning author includes select readings from her upcoming book.
Opening by Kumugwe Dancers plus a book signing after the event.
Michelle Good is a Cree writer and retired lawyer, and a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians, won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. It also won Canada Reads 2022 and was the #1 bestselling Canadian book at independent bookstores across Canada in both 2021 and 2022. Her book Truth Telling is a collection of essays that explore a wide range of issues affecting Indigenous people in Canada today, including reconciliation, the rise of Indigenous literature in the 1970s and the impact it has to this day, the emergence of "pretendians" and more.
Michelle Good will publish her next book in summer 2026.
