So honoured to read with @danielcowper.bsky.social for Delta Literary Arts Society’s Pages and Passages series this past November! Big thanks to @genevievewynand.bsky.social for hosting, and to @angelarebrec.bsky.social and her DLAS team for the wonderful hospitality!

Such a delight to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Seventeen-Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social this past September! Always terrific to read alongside such a talented lineup!

This summer, I was so honoured to read alongside Raoul Fernandes at Richmond Multicultural Community Services’ event The Art of Us: A Multicultural Open Mic!

I was so honoured to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus show for Pride this past July!✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨ Thrilled to share the stage with @ashleyfehr.bsky.social, @goldbard.bsky.social, & @spillious.bsky.social, hosted by Lucia Misch! Big thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!

During Pride Month this year, I had the honour of designing and facilitating the Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for members of the LGBTQ+ community, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the organizing team for inviting me to design/facilitate this event! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

So honoured to be the featured author at Surrey Muse in May! It was such a delight to read with artist Kim Brake, poet Hari Alluri (virtually), and writer Samantha Krilow, all hosted by Angel-Clare Linton!

Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!

So thrilled to be reading at the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for a third year in a row! ✨🎉✨ See you at 12:30pm tomorrow at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver! ❤️❤️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sevent...

Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨ See you at my writing workshop this Saturday! ❤️❤️❤️

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Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...

So honoured to be featured at Vancouver Poetry House’s Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time earlier this spring!! ✨🎉✨ So grateful to share my poetry on the #VanSlam stage, including from my chapbook ZIPLESS & from @pulpliterature.bsky.social! ✨❤️✨

Big thanks to queer litmag Plenitude Magazine for publishing my poem “Floss”! ✨🏳️‍🌈🎉 So honoured to be published in Plenitude a second time! ✨✨✨ #queerpoets This poem was written in Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Poetry class ✨🎉✨❤️✨ plenitudemagazine.ca/floss/

So fabulous to read with poets Rose Henbest and @meghankempgee.bsky.social on May 4th to celebrate Rose’s new chapbook!! ✨🎉✨🍸✨

Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPACE POET@meghankempgee.bsky.social · last yr.

This was so fun! Reading poetry with @catwrites604.bsky.social and Rose Henbest at a fabulously classy gin joint 🍸🍸🍸

Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...

So honoured to read at Surrey Muse with such a fabulous lineup on May 24th! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ surreymuse.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...

Surrey Muse Gathering – Saturday, May 24 / 2025

143rd Gathering Featured Artists Author Catherine LewisPoet Hari AlluriVisual Artist Kim BrakeEmerging Artist Samantha KrilowFeatured Art by Shehan MadawelaHost Angel-Clare Linton Saturday, May 24,…

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I’ll be reading with @meghankempgee.bsky.social in North Vancouver this Sunday evening to celebrate Rose Henbest’s new chapbook…See you there, folks! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ fb.me/1Ng2r6y4HGUy...

You Look Like Someone I Love! Cocktails + Poetry Reading

Sunday at 6:30 PM

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPACE POET@meghankempgee.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm doing a poetry reading! Join me and Catherine Lewis for cocktail & mocktails as we celebrate Rose Henbest's new chapbook. "You Look Like Someone I Love" is a beautiful celebration of the promise of new friendship. May 4 in North Vancouver BC! fb.me/1NBfNQPt0t2b...

Oh my goodness 🥰🥺 thank you!!!

NeWest Press@newestpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 🎉 Congratulations to Samantha Jones!! Her debut collection ATTIC RAIN has just been announced as a finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry! ✨ Get your copy now! buff.ly/mPz92Nb

So honoured to attend @tinhouse.bsky.social’s Winter Online Workshop last month! ✨❤️✨ Big thanks to my brilliant workshop leader @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for his generosity & for his craft lecture featuring this @dseuss.bsky.social book! Thanks to my fellow students for holding space ❤️ #thww

RCLAS is on Bluesky! Let's start things off with our call for submissions for the annual Write On! Contest (Fiction, Non-Fiction & Poetry). Help us spread the word! Details on our website: rclas.com/2025-write-o...

So cool to see my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news (including The National & CBC Vancouver), as yesterday’s federal election campaigning included a stop at a Toronto bookstore! ✨ Big thanks to Kyle Hawke & @roblucastaylor.bsky.social for spotting my chapbook cover on TV and letting me know! ✨

So cool to spot my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news! ✨✨✨ Thanks so much to my pressmate Rob for the catch! ✨✨✨

Rob Taylor@roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey look, @catwrites604.bsky.social's poetry chapbook, "Zipless," has made it onto the headline news! Canadian elections are something else 🤣 You can learn more about the chapbook, and more of 845 Press' titles, here: www.thetemzreview.com/845-press-ch...

Congratulations to our 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!! We're so delighted to be able to celebrate them and can't wait to see what moves they continue to make in the writing world. Let's all give these amazing Scholars their flowers! 💐💐💐💐💐

So thrilled to be featured at Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time, next Monday, March 24! ✨❤️✨ This event is hybrid, so come to Shamshiri Caveman or join online! The top 4 competitors from that night’s 2-round slam will qualify for Van Slam Finals! www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vancou...

So grateful for in-person @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop hangouts in Vancouver, Canada! ✨✨✨ Yesterday I finally met the one fellow Vancouverite in my recent Tin House workshop… turns out Prachi Kamble & I graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio a year apart! #thww

Beyond thrilled to be hosting the launch event for my friend @leataranto.bsky.social’s debut YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN on May 21st, with guest reader @yilinwriter.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 See you all at Iron Dog Books, folks! ✨❤️✨

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths@yilinwriter.bsky.social · 2y ago

i'm delighted to be reading at my wonderful friend and former classmate @leataranto.bsky.social's launch for her debut YA novel A Drop in the Ocean!!! May 21st at Iron Dog Books in Vancouver @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social irondogbooks.com/events/45147...

I love you, Vancouver BlueSky friends.

First earthquake I’ve felt in a long time!! #Vancouver

On February 24th I'll be back with The Writer's Studio Reading Series sharing some work, a light-hearted humorous essay on an experience from my early teen years. We need some light in the world. Readings begin at 7:00 pm at Container Brewing Vancouver Space limited. www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

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So honoured to read at my @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop today! 🎉🎉🎉 Big thanks to my fellow workshop students for the wonderfully warm reception for my funny & sexy queer poem, and for your amazing readings! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️ It’s such a delight to be in community with you all! ❤️❤️❤️ #thww

So glad to restock Chinatown bookstore @massybooks.bsky.social with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS! Always a delight to see owner Patricia Massy herself! ✨❤️✨ I still remember posting about my chapbook being published and Massy Books reaching out to ask about stocking it! ❤️❤️❤️

So honoured to be Featured Poet for the 1st time, at the annual @gunghaggis.bsky.social Banquet celebrating Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day! ✨🧧❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ I read a poem by Robert Burns & my Chinese New Year poem “Golden” from @pulpliterature.bsky.social, and ate haggis wonton & haggis lettuce wrap! 🎉🎉🎉