PAST

Loud Library Reading Series
Whoopsie Daisy Drinks, Kitchener, Sept. 4

Mennonite/s Writing Ten
Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, MB, June 2025

PINCH Cabaret #41, June 30, 2025

“CHANNEL MIGRATION — audiowalk launch, dance performance, and urban hike experience
Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, May 31, 2025

KW Book Launch for Poetry in Place (co-host and reader)
Waterloo Public Library, Eastside Branch, May 15, 2025

Guelph Book Launch for Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion
Loyola House, May 8, 2025, 7pm

“The Pasts and Futures of Schneider Creek”
Jane’s Walk Kitchener, co-leader, May 3, 2025

Elmira District Secondary School, Grade 11 English — four class visits, Mar. 25, 2025
Writers-in-the-Schools program (funded by Writer’s Union of Canada & Ontario Arts Council)

Wisdom’s Beauty: An Arts Event of Music, Literature, and Visual Art
Closing Gallery Event for Josh Tiessen’s show, vanitas + viriditas
Redeemer University, Ancaster, ON, Nov. 7, 2024

Wild Writers Festival (TNQ), Waterloo ON
A Literary Friendship: On Writing an Award-Winning Essay
Free, public lunchtime conversation with writer Isabel Huggan
The Balsillie School of International Affairs, Nov. 2, 2024

Wild Writers Festival (TNQ), Waterloo, ON
Opening Showcase, select reading from “The Isabel Letters”
Truth & Consequence, with Tanya Talaga and Canisia Lubrin, Nov. 1, 2024

“Writing & Alternative Media,” (class visit), Alternative Media, Wilfrid Laurier University, Communication Studies, Sept. 2024

First-Year Creative Writing (class visit), Renison College, University of Waterloo, Oct. 8, 2024

Elmira District Secondary School, Grade 11 English — four class visits, Oct. 9, 2025
Writers-in-the-Schools program (funded by Writer’s Union of Canada & Ontario Arts Council)

FLOW Exhibit & surface/tension (Schneider Creek) Performance Reading
Friday, June 14, Inter Arts Matrix (Globe Studios)

“Schneider Creek: Sharing Adam’s Ale” (panel discussion)
with Deborah Carruthers, Sydney Lancaster, Geoff Martin 
The Creek Collective
Schneider Haus, May 30,

“Home Range Story Kitchen” hosted by Marinus de Groot
Interview with Geoff Martin, Promenade Community Radio, May 20, 2024
Listen here or on Spotify

“Surface Tension” (Schneider Creek Audio Walk) – reading and interview
on Readers Delight with Jody Swannell, KW Writers Alliance, CKMS 102.7 FM, April 21, 2024
Listen here or watch here

Toronto Writers’ Centre – Salon Series Vol. 2, Hail Mary Bar, Toronto, Mar. 3, 2024

Redeemer Reads, Redeemer University, Ancaster, Feb. 1, 2024

Pinch Cabaret, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Dec. 30, 2023

“Writing & Alternative Media,” (class visit), Alternative Media, Wilfrid Laurier University, Communication Studies, Sept. 2023

“Writing & the Public Humanities” (grad class visit), English in/for/with Communities: Creating Public-Facing Projects, McMaster University, English & Cultural Studies, Mar. 2023

“’Land Matters’ & Community Writing/Media” (class visit), Alternative Media, Wilfrid Laurier University, Communication Studies, Jan. 2023

“From the Banks of the Grand” (class visit), Decolonizing Media Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Communication Studies, Oct. 2022

“Grounded” (reading), The Printed Word, Dundas ON, Oct. 2022 (with Steacy Easton, Ben Robinson, Darrell Epp, John Terpstra, and Simon Orpana)

“’Land Matters’ & Community Writing/Media” (class visit), Alternative Media, Wilfrid Laurier University, Communication Studies, Sept. 2022

“Figurative Language: Living in Metaphor” (class visit), Courtland Public School, WRDSB – Grade 7/8 advanced English, May 2022

“Baked Clay” (grad class visit), Sharing Knowledges in/with/for Communities, McMaster University, English & Cultural Studies, May 2022

“Behind the Scenes with The Common” (panel discussion), The Common: A Modern Sense of Place (Weekly Writes program), Nov. 2021

“Writing Narrative Nonfiction” (class visit), Courtland Public School, WRDSB – Grade 7/8 advanced English, Nov. 2021

Generating & Revising Hermit Crab Essays” (panel discussion), Hone & Polish Your Writing (Creative Writing Program), Apr. 2021

“Place-based Writing: Slave Days in the Queen’s Bush” (virtual class visit), University of British Columbia, Coordinated Arts Program (ASTU 100), Feb. 2021

If you’re interested in booking a talk, reading, or classroom visit, please reach out:
geoff [at] wheelhousewriting [dot] org