Join us for In/Verse on Saturday, September 17 at 2:00 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.
Speakers:
Kelsey Andrews writes first drafts in plain spiral notebooks with a fancy fountain pen, and usually has ink on her fingers. Recently published in Prism, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire, she's written about birdwatching when you can’t see the birds, suicide, snails, and two separate poems about turning into rock. Kelsey grew up in the country near Grande Prairie in Northern Alberta, then moved to the West Coast, and lives now in Saanichton, Vancouver Island, on unceded WSANEC territory. Her first book of poetry, Big Sky Falling, came out in November of 2021 with Ronsdale Press. Find out more about Kelsey on her website.
Natalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, B.C.). She is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room magazine's 2020 Emerging Writer Award, with work published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, arrhythmia, is available now from Rahila's Ghost Press. Find out more about Natalie on her website.
Murray Reiss lives on Salt Spring Island with his wife Karen, a ceramic sculptor. His poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the US and short-listed for a number of prizes and awards. His first book, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild, won the 2014 Gerald Lampert award. His second, Cemetery Compost, was published in 2016 by Frontenac House. A chapbook, Distance from the Locus, came out in 2005. He’s also brought his work to life on the stage as a Climate Action Performance Poet and founding member of Salt Spring’s Only Planet Cabaret. Find out more about Murray on his website.
Host:
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.
Digital Doors Open at 1:55, Event Starts at 2PM
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This In/Verse event is supported by the League of Canadian Poets, The Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council. The Federation of BC Writers is grateful for their ongoing support.
