{"id":27712,"date":"2025-11-27T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=27712"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:28:08","slug":"the-blurred-divide-can-we-draw-a-line-between-fiction-and-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/event\/the-blurred-divide-can-we-draw-a-line-between-fiction-and-non-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blurred Divide: Can We Draw a Line Between Fiction and Non-Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>Please join us for <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">The Blurred Divide: Can We Draw a Line Between Fiction and Non-Fiction?<\/em> <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">A conversation between Ottawa authors <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Monia Mazigh<\/strong> and <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Jamie Chai Yun Liew<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will take place at 6pm on February 4 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. Please register below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-1024x1536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27708\" style=\"width:170px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-512x768.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2021\/09\/Monia-Mazigh-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monia Mazigh<\/strong>&nbsp;is an academic, award-winning Canadian author, and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and to date has authored a memoir, three novels, an essay, and a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and Research Professor at Carleton University in the Department of English Language and Literature, where she is the Writer in Residence for the Winter 2026 term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1534\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Jamie-Chai-Yun-Liew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27715\" style=\"width:192px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Jamie-Chai-Yun-Liew.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Jamie-Chai-Yun-Liew-512x767.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Jamie-Chai-Yun-Liew-320x479.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Jamie-Chai-Yun-Liew-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Jamie Chai Yun Liew<\/strong> is a writer, lawyer, professor and podcaster. Her national bestselling debut novel <em>Dandelion<\/em>&nbsp;was the runner up in CBC&#8217;s Canada Reads 2025. Her non-fiction book <em>Ghost Citizens: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law <\/em>looks at how statelessness is created and maintained in post-colonial settings. Jamie also hosts an award winning podcast, Migration Conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"register-here\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Register here!<\/h2>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":27765,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-27712","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-02-04 18:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-02-04 20:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"off-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":{"address":"290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada","lat":45.417081,"lng":-75.6960052,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJCQQoVN8FzkwRwbnu8GzpJQU","name":"290 Lisgar St","street_number":290,"street_name":"Lisgar Street","street_name_short":"Lisgar St","city":"Ottawa","state":"Ontario","state_short":"ON","post_code":"K2P 0E2","country":"Canada","country_short":"CA"},"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"This is a FREE public event. 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