The Beginning Space with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross

Join us for the second public workshop in Centre A’s 2026 Art Writing Mentorship program with writer and editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross for a public talk, The Beginning Space, on Saturday July 4 at Centre A

How does one “begin” to write? And from what does one draw on “in the beginning”? In this informal talk, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross will share insights on circumnavigating the “beginning space” of writing, speaking through her experiences as a writer of criticism, experimental fiction, and prose. She will offer ideas and strategies towards beginning (failing) and beginning again, and speak to the importance of curiosity, reciprocity, and response to the tuning of one’s creative work in concert with community. In talking about beginnings, she will also, inevitably, talk about middles.

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer and editor based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism have appeared in BOMB, C Mag, The Ex-Puritan, Fence, Mousse, and elsewhere. The Longest Way to Eat a Melon, her debut collection of fictions, was published by Sarabande Books in 2025. She is currently Art Editor at The Capilano Review, a west coast journal of experimental poetry and visual art. 

This workshop is a part of Centre A’s 2026 Art Writing program, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Art Council, and the Government of BC. Centre A is also excited to collaborate with The Capilano Review in connecting writing with the arts.

No registration required.