Digital Doors Open at 1:45, Event Starts at 2PM
Join us for In/Verse on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 1:45 pm by registering here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.
Jillian Christmas is the author of The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press 2020) She is a queer, afro-caribbean writer living on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam people. Jillian works as an artist, educator, curator and consultant. She is the current speaker coordinator for Cicely Blain Consulting, long-time Spoken word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest, and former artistic director of Verses Festival of Words. She has won numerous Grand Poetry Slam Championship titles and represented both Toronto and Vancouver at eleven national poetry events. She has presented poetry and theory in a multitude of venues including the BC Civil Liberties gala, the SFU 2018 grad conference closing keynote, and numerous panels focused on the intersections of critical race theory and contemporary art.
Daniel Cowper is a poet from Bowen Island. He is the author of Grotesque Tenderness (McGill-Queen's University Press 2019), and The God of Doors, published in 2017 as co-winner of Frog Hollow Press' chapbook contest. His poetry and criticism has appeared in Arc, Vallum, and many other literary publications in Canada, the US, and Ireland, and he has been long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize.
Wendy Donawa writes from BC’s salty west coast, where she spent her early years. She spent much of her adult life in Barbados where she raised her Barbadian sons and worked as an educator and museum curator. Since her return to BC, her poems have appeared in Canadian magazines, anthologies, and chapbooks. Her début collection, Thin Air of the Knowable (Brick Books, 2017), was long-listed for the Raymond Souster and a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. She lives in Victoria.
Susan McCaslin is an established Canadian poet residing outside Fort Langley, BC. A new volume of her poetry, Heart Work, will be published by Ekstasis Editions (Victoria, BC) in January 2021. Susan has also authored Into the Open: Poems New and Selected (Inanna Publications, 2017). An upcoming volume, Named & Nameless, will be released by Inanna Publications in the Fall of 2022. In 2012, she initiated The Han Shan Poetry Project, a successful effort to help save a rainforest near her home. Susan can often be found walking her dog Rosie along the Fraser River.
In/Verse host Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections, Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize), Enter the Chrysanthemum, and Odes & Laments (Caitlin Press, 2019), and an illustrated children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction have been published in more than 35 anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English (2010 and 2020). She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer, and co-edited two nonfiction anthologies, Love Me True: Writers on the Ups, Downs, Ins & Outs of Marriage with Jane Silcott, and Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood with Cathy Stonehouse and Shannon Cowan. Her poetry videos have screened at festivals locally and internationally. fionalam.net
