Join us Tuesday, October 22 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring the Tri-City Wordsmiths with host Meaghan Hackinen and readers Trevor Atkins, Margarita Escobar, Tamara GorinCarmy Stubbs, and Rohini Sunderam . 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!
*This event will be recorded.
Trevor Atkins lives on the west coast of Canada and has been working with words for much of his life. Now he's enjoying writing historical fiction for younger readers.
Trevor has written a children's book with his daughter, "The King and Queen's Banquet" (2019), and a historical novel for middle-grade readers and up, "The Day the Pirates Went Mad" (2021), featuring the young adventurers Emma Sharpe and Jack Randall.
Most recently, Trevor has also been published in a pair of themed anthologies from Wild Ink Publishing. Currently, Trevor is putting the finishing touches on the sequel to "The Day the Pirates Went Mad", which is expected to release early 2025. So, keep a weather eye on his social media for upcoming announcements about that. Find Trevor online: https://www.facebook.com/Trevor.Atkins.author
With a background in journalism early in her career, Tamara Gorin is an award winning poet and essayist, a graduate of the SFU Writers Studio (2006). She is a member of Editors of Canada - BC and the Federation of BC Writers. Tamara owns Western Sky Books, an independent bookstore and art gallery in Port Coquitlam/kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, BC. She sits on the Board of Tri-Cities Wordsmiths and the organizing committee of the Tri-Cities Literary Festival.
Rohini Sunderam is a Canadian of Indian origin. After many years as an ex-pat living and working in the Kingdom of Bahrain, she now calls Port Coquitlam her home. While in Bahrain, for several years Rohini managed The Bahrain Writers' Circle, and Second Circle poetry group, and hosted several poetry events. A semi-retired advertising copywriter, she has published five books: Corpoetry, Desert Flower: Five Lives One Day in Bahrain, (all previously published by Ex-L-Ence Publishing), Twelve Roses for Love, a collection of short stories and A to Z Flowers, Poems & Bible Verses a collection of flower poetry arranged as a journal. Her poems have appeared in Dilliwali (Publisher Busra Alvi Razzak), Quesadilla & Other Adventures (2019), The Society of Classical Poets’ Journals VII, VIII & XII. A short story was shortlisted in The Atlantis Short Story Contest (2013) published by Expanded Horizons, (2018). A CNF entry and Flash Fiction story were long listed in separate WOW Women on Writing contests, Winner: Oapschat, U.K 2014. Her latest success is a short story published by The Missouri Review Fall 2022 issue (digital, print, audio, featured prose and an author interview). Find Rohini online: www.bwcbh.com
Margarita Escobar enjoys writing women’s fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. In 2023, she published her short story collection, ‘Under a Weeping Willow.’ Each tale traverses the intricacies of the human condition with themes of love in all its forms: courage and hope, loss and grief and what it means to grow older.
She is a former ICU nurse and midwife who has been writing in her native language, Spanish, for as long as she can remember, but nowadays, she writes in English and Spanish.
She lives with her husband in Pitt Meadows.
Find Margarita online: linktr.ee/_Margarita.B.Escobar_
Carmy Stubbs is a lover of the Word and its power for transformation and healing. Through her poetry, short stories, writings, and illustrations, she explores the creative force of the Heart and the finding of one’s true voice. Carmy is the author of the novel The Six Knowings of ASAIRA, a metaphysical fantasy, where all her loves ~ the poems, the magic, the storytelling, and the search for the Divine~ weave themselves alchemically through text and illustration. Find Carmy online: https://www.carmystubbs.com
Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelong hunt 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. Meaghan is the 2024 women’s winner of the Tour Divide, a self-supported 4,400-kilometre mountain bike race down the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico. Read her reflective essay on The Radavist.
