Digital Doors Open at 1:45, Event Starts at 2PM
Join us for In/Verse on Saturday, October 9 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.
Sita Gaia is a queer chronic illness warrior and TEDx Alumnae, with her talk "The Hell of Chronic Illness" being taught across North America. She originally went to university for Social Work, but realized how ableist the field is. She honed in on her voice during the pandemic, and recently published a chapbook " Knocking on The Body's Door" this past June with Prolific Pulse Press LLC. Her chapbook takes you on a journey through their chronic illness, and is a haven for some as well as a teaching tool. They have been published in Poetry Soup, Harness Magazine, Fine Lines Literary Magazine along with Kissing Dynamite, their ultimate achievement. They drink too much coffee, loves Owls, and currently resides in Vancouver with their wife.
Rob Taylor is the author of Strangers (Biblioasis, 2021) and three other poetry collections. He is also the editor of What The Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood Editions, 2018), and the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2019 (Biblioasis, 2019). He lives in Port Moody, BC, on the unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-waututh) peoples, and teaches Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University."
Linda K. Thompson was raised on a potato and cattle farm in the Pemberton Valley and has lived for many years now on Vancouver Island. Her work has been published across Canada and in the U.S. and Great Britain. Linda has a chapbook Four Small People in Sturdy Shoes, 2014 and her work was recently published online at Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You III: Canadian Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry, Applebeard Edition, 2021. Linda’s debut book of poetry “Black Bears in the Carrot Field” (Mother Tongue Publishing) was released in July, 2021. She lives in Port Alberni.
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Susan Alexander is the author of two collections of poems, The Dance Floor Tilts and Nothing You Can Carry and a former journalist. Her work has won multiple awards, including the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry in 2019. Susan’s poems appear in anthologies and literary magazines in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S., have ridden Vancouver buses as part of Poetry in Transit and even shown up in the woods around Whistler. She lives on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island, the traditional territory of the Squamish people.
