Welcome / Keynote
Daniel Allen Cox
Sunday 9:00AM - 10:15AM EST
Pearson
When stutterers and their allies embrace unique speech patterns, it’s a way of questioning dominant cultural messages around fluency and disfluency. In this celebration of our most unusual frequencies, Daniel Allen Cox, author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness talks about discarding the ideas of a perfection-seeking religious group, finding his voice as a writer, and otherwise jamming the signal.
About the presenter
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, and four novels nominated for the Lambda Literary, Ferro-Grumley, and ReLit awards. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere, and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays and The Best American Essays. Daniel is the 2023 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize judge and is past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation
Last updated: 2023-09-04