Writers Read welcomes Billy Ray-Belcourt for a reading and book signing on Monday October 6 at 7:30PM at the John Molson Building Floor 9, Concordia University, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal. Please register below to reserve your place. The event is free to attend and open to everyone. 

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of five books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, and Coexistence. Billy-Ray’s debut book of poems, This Wound is a World(Frontenac House 2017), won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize (making him the youngest ever winner) and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. It was also named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards. His fourth book, A Minor Chorus, published by Hamish Hamilton (CAN), W.W. Norton (US), and University of Queensland Press (AUS/NZ), was a national bestseller, winning the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. His fifth book, Coexistence: Stories, was published in May 2024 by Hamish Hamilton (CAN) and W.W. Norton (US). It received a starred review from PW and was a national bestseller. Belcourt released his sixth book, The Idea of An Entire Life, in September 2025.