BIG: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies

An Author Visit with Christina Myers

Join us for a special author event featuring Christina Myers, award-winning newspaper journalist turned freelance writer and editor.

The Library is thrilled to host a special author event featuring the talented Christina Myers. 

Christina will be discussing her recently published work: BIG: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies.

BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as self perception, body image, fashion, fat activism, food, sexuality, diet culture, motherhood and more. These stories offer a closer look at what it means to navigate a world designed to fit bodies of a certain size (sometimes literally) and, in turn, invites readers to ask questions about—and ultimately reconsider—our collective and individual obsession with women’s bodies.

Christina Myers is a former long-time community journalist turned freelance writer and editor. She is the creator and editor of the BC Bestseller BIG: Stories About Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (Caitlin Press), named by both CBC and Quill & Quire as a top non-fiction to watch for in 2020. Her first novel is forthcoming in spring 2021 and she'll be teaching a new online creative non-fiction course with SFU starting in January. She co-hosts an ongoing reading series called Words in the Burbs which hosts writers of all genres and levels of experience. Find her online at www.cmyers.ca. 

To attend, visit us on Facebook at 7:00pm. 

If you have questions about this program, contact Rachel at rburke@coqlibrary.ca.

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