Welcome
*NEW* Sylvie is delighted to have started work on creating a course for the University of Ottawa’s Continuing Education Program — Personal Enrichment Activities, called Undressing James Joyce’s Ulysses: Unravelled & Simplified for Fall 2012 and Winter 2013. Learn about it here, sign up and join me on a few fall evenings.
WRITER
Sylvie Hill is known around Ottawa-Hull (Canada) for writing “Shotgun,” a hip and hilarious column (2004-2006) in The Ottawa XPress, an arts and entertainment weekly for Canada’s Capital City. She also contributed about music, books and art for the paper, and feature pieces for Guerilla Magazine, Canada’s premiere arts & culture quarterly.
Sylvie the spoken-word poet has also published a book of spoken-word poetry called Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-night Stands. Her 2001 book launch was made into a video documentary.
PERFORMER
Sylvie hosted season 2 of the romantic television dating series, The Letters: Rediscovering the Art of Courtship for CHUM Television. It aired on Book TV, Canadian Learning Television, Access Alberta and on BRAVO! Canada. Watch it here.
She’s emceed for Westfest, Mustaches for Kids and Amnesty International’s 50th Anniversary Celebration & 9th Annual Write For Rights (2011).