Jon Hedderwick
Poets of Nogojiwanong is a legacy project that seeks to connect our community to local professional poets. It was collected in 2024 as a Peterborough Poet Laureate legacy project.
Jon Hedderwick is a spoken word poet, playwright and performance artist of mixed Ashkenazi Jewish and Scottish heritage based here in Nogojiwanong. Jon is the Artistic Director for the @PeterboroughPoetry Slam Collective, one half of the spoken word performing duo the @WordCraftPoetryProject, and a co-creator of @Takeout.Poetry. His work has been featured at performance poetry series as well as spoken word, literary and storytelling festivals across Canada.
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- Spoken word artist
- Published author
- Neurodivergent
- Ashkenazi Jewish