{"id":157146,"date":"2025-09-16T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/09\/16\/sex-worker-maid-focus-of-dual-cross-canada-book-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:10:00","slug":"sex-worker-maid-focus-of-dual-cross-canada-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/09\/16\/sex-worker-maid-focus-of-dual-cross-canada-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex worker, MAID focus of dual cross-Canada book tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail_default\">Raw emotions involved in two separate world issues are making a voice for themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Two Canadian authors are on a cross-Canada book tour with their separate works, coming to Vernon for a free reading Thursday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at the library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">CBC Literary Awards prize-winning writer and Kelowna resident Joanna Cockerline is&nbsp;author of the&nbsp;novel&nbsp;Still<i>.<\/i>&nbsp;The book is&nbsp;set amid the unhoused and street-level sex work communities, following a woman who lives and works on the streets of Kelowna, who is looking for a fellow sex worker who has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Based on the streets of Kelowna, Still explores survival, friendship, resiliency and hope. It&#39;s based on Cockerline&#39;s own experiences as a long-time street outreach volunteer and co-founder of a new non-profit street outreach&nbsp;organization in Kelowna, JustUs Street Outreach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Also addressing pressing social questions,&nbsp;Kevin Andrew Heslop&#39;s&nbsp;book is called The Writing on the Wind&#39;s Wall: Dialogues about &lsquo;Medical Assistance in Dying.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">A doctor killing a patient at the patient&rsquo;s request was a crime in Canada on Feb.&nbsp;5, 2015. But the next day, the Supreme Court directed Parliament to amend the Criminal Code to allow for what came to be called medical assistance in dying: MAID &mdash; which one&nbsp;in 20 Canadians who die each year receive, more than any other country in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Now with medical assistance in dying for the mentally ill on the table,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theporcupinesquill.com\/collections\/new-titles\/products\/the-writing-on-the-winds-wall&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758052364235000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2iepsoy64dI05W3k2sQslh\" href=\"https:\/\/theporcupinesquill.com\/collections\/new-titles\/products\/the-writing-on-the-winds-wall\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Writing on the Wind&rsquo;s Wall<\/a>&nbsp;presents an atonal chorus: a disability-studies scholar, an ethicist, doctors, a death-doula, a reverend, a medium, a Member of Parliament, a psychiatrist, relatives of people who have died with medical assistance, and someone who intends to die.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re deeply excited to connect with readers and audiences across the country,&rdquo; Cockerline said, noting they will be touring throughout B.C., Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime provinces throughout September and October.<\/p>\n<p>Cockerline and Heslop both released their books in September with the Canadian indie press The Porcupine&rsquo;s Quill, and are touring across Canada to connect with audiences about issues close to their hearts and homes.<\/p>\n<p><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.joannacockerline.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758052364235000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2FqdPx728XGdRzOTFrMba9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joannacockerline.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Cockerline<\/a>&nbsp;is a nominee for the international Pushcart Prize, and author of works in publications ranging from&nbsp;Room<i>&nbsp;<\/i>to&nbsp;En Route&nbsp;to&nbsp;International Human Rights Arts. Still<i>&nbsp;<\/i>has been long listed for the&nbsp;prestigious 2025 Giller Prize. She teaches literature and creative writing at UBC Okanagan.<\/p>\n<p><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/kevinandrewheslop.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758052364236000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3QOrgRUFJFS7Ehd_0MhSMQ\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinandrewheslop.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Heslop<\/a>, from&nbsp;London, Ont.,&nbsp;is the author of works for the page, stage, and screen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 authors share work at library Sept. 25 as part of national book tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":157155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-regional-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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