Join us Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring UBC Okanagan MFA Poets with host Meaghan Hackinen and readers Slava Bart, Tosh Sherkat, Amy Wang, and Miriam Cummings. Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!
Slava Bart is a first-year international MFA student at UBCO. He comes from Israel and enjoys multilingual and collaborative writing with a penchant for venturing deep into the past and far into the future, reaching across borders and disciplines. His thesis in poetry reinterprets the books of Genesis and Exodus using multiple languages to tell a personal story of the loss of home after the collapse of the USSR.
Tosh Sherkat is a Persian-Doukhobor settler-of-colour born on Sinixt territory in Nelson, BC, living on Syilx territory. Their poetry and fiction has appeared in a number of North American publications, most recently carte blanche and Terrain.org, and is forthcoming at filling Station and Acta Victoriana. They are currently an MFA student at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).
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Amy Wang is a Chinese-Canadian writer based on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People. Their work is forthcoming or published in Paper Shell, The Goose, The Garden Statuary and exhibited in IGNITE! Youth-Driven Arts Festival. They are a first-year MFA student at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).
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Miriam Cummings is an interdisciplinary artist who makes performance, plays, poetry, and prose on the unceded territory of the Syilx Nation. Based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal for more than a decade, Miriam co-founded Hopegrown Productions. Her chapbook, Words I don't say aloud, was published in 2023 by broke press (Vernon, BC). Miriam teaches acting at Concordia University and with the Embodied Voice Collective. She is completing a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelonghunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023. This year, Meaghan is gearing up to compete in the Tour Divide: a self-supported 4,400-kilometre mountain bike race down the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico.
*This event will be recorded.
