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2026 Greg Younging Conversation: Sunday, May 3rd

April 19, 2026
Our 3 Panelists for the 2026 Greg Younging Conversation will be Bree Duwyn, Stephanie Sinclair and Shelagh Rogers. Find out more below.

Please join us this year for the Greg Younging Conversation, a dialogue honouring Greg鈥檚 legacy as both publisher, bridge maker, and advocate. Bree Duwyn, Shelagh Rogers, and Stephanie Sinclair will speak across generations, stage of life and profession, to explore the current state of literary arts in Canada, to celebrate the progress we have made, and to discuss the work still needing to get done.

Bree Duwyn is currently the Group Assistant of McClelland & Stewart and Tundra Book Group, under Penguin Random House Canada. She is Mohawk First Nations. Bree has a bachelor's degree in journalism with a double minor in English and film studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. In addition to a background in journalism and library clerkship, Bree taught English in South Korea before joining PRHC as an editorial intern in 2025. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors, caf茅 hopping, thrifting, and content creation.

Stephanie Sinclair is Publisher of McClelland & Stewart. She is Anishinaabe and German/Jewish settler. She has worked for more than twenty years in the performing and creative arts, and from 2012-2022 in literary management.

Through it all, she has been a 铿乪rce advocate and activist, serving as a mentor and curator, and organizing publishing events to challenge colonial practices in publishing and to advance the work of reconciliation. Stephanie has also published : You Were Made for This World, published by Tundra Books in Summer 2025 and A Steady Brightness of Being, published by Penguin Canada in Fall 2025.

Shelagh Rogers is the 16th Chancellor of Queen鈥檚 University, succeeding The Honourable Murray Sinclair. A veteran broadcast-journalist, she most recently was the host and co-creator of CBC Radio鈥檚 The Next Chapter, the award-winning program devoted to writing in Canada.

Shelagh is a member of the M茅tis Nation of Greater Victoria, with family roots in Red River, Manitoba. In 2022, she was Symons Medalist. Shelagh lives in Winnipeg, where she is connecting with her Metis family.

51社区黑料 Dr. Gregory Younging

Greg Younging was a nationally and internationally renowned expert on Indigenous publishing and a tireless voice and advocate for raising Indigenous voices in Canada. A publisher, professor, and Indigenous cultural advocate, Greg was a bridge-maker who brought together diverse voices, and his conversations were highly regarded by anyone who had the privilege to sit across from him. He was a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. In addition to his role as publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest fully Indigenous-owned publisher in Canada, Younging was an assistant director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the author of Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and 51社区黑料 Indigenous Peoples, and an instructor in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Register and Join us


Sunday, May 3, 1 - 2:30 PM
Three panelists join us for this thought-provoking online event which will be held over Zoom. Please register to get the ink.

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