In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, The Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) presents the launch of this year’s Poetry In Transit campaign at Word Vancouver. Now celebrating its 26th year, this community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province.

On September 25th, 2022, join us to hear a selection of the featured 2022/23 poets read from their work. With readings by Joseph Dandurand (The East Side of It All, Nightwood Editions), Henry Doyle (No Shelter, Anvil Press), Leanne Dunic (One and half of you, Talonbooks), Bára Hladík (New Infinity, Metatron Press), Ellie Sawatzky (None of This Belongs to Me, Nightwood Editions), Isabella Wang (Pebble Swing, Nightwood Editions), and Terence Young (Smithereens, Harbour Publishing).

Hosted by Evelyn Lau.

Join us in-person for September's Lunch Poems event, featuring poets Ellie Sawatzky and Isabella Wang. The free, in-person event will take place in the Teck Gallery at SFU Vancouver's Harbour Centre campus.

Register for this free event here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../lunch-poems-featuring-ellie...

*Attendees are encouraged to wear a mask. Please stay home and rest if you are feeling ill.

Please join Sarah Ens and Ellie Sawatzky on Saturday, September 10, 2:00 pm, as they launch their new poetry collections Flyway (Sarah Ens) and None of This Belongs to Me (Ellie Sawatzky) at the Mennonite Heritage Museum, 1818 Clearbrook Road, Abbotsford, BC.

On Thursday, September 8th at 6pm, join Massy Arts, Massy Books, and poets Sarah Ens + Ellie Sawatzky, reading from their new poetry collections Flyway (2022, Turnstone Press) and None of This Belongs to Me (2021, Nightwood Editions).

At this in-person event, Sarah and Ellie will be joined by host and moderator Kevin Spenst for an evening celebrating poetry and the earth, and exploring Mennonite heritage and the various ways in which we find home.

This event is supported by the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario Arts Council.

The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.

This event is free + open to all of our community, and registration is mandatory.

Covid Protocols: For all in-person events, attendees must provide proof of vaccination, and use of mask at all times when at the gallery. We ask that if you are showing any symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.

Click here to register for the event

Click here to purchase Flyway by Sarah Ens

Click here to purchase None of This Belongs to Me by Ellie Sawatzky

Kingsgate Chorus ALL AGES Spring Fun-raiser Show

We are so excited to be singing together in person again this season and to share with you what we worked on remotely over Zoom and over the last few months!

The show will include:

730-8: Special performances by Kingsgate Chorus members!

8-840: Choir set including songs by Neil Young, War on Drugs, and Mountain Man

845-945: Post show choir-oke sing and dance along!!

Delicious baked goods and non-alcoholic beverages for sale. If you want a boozy drink you can pop in to the bar right downstairs!

This is our fundraiser show and we hope to start next season with more bursaries and keep choir accessible so please contribute as much as you can and support the delicious bake sale!!!

On Nov 5th (Friday), at 6:30pm, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in a double literary launch: Isabella Wang’s “Pebble Swing” (2021, Nightwood Editions) and Ellie Sawatzky’s “None of This Belongs to Me” (2021, Nightwood Editions). Both authors will read passages from their works, and talk to the audience about their literary production.

The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street, Chinatown, Vancouver.

Registration is free and mandatory.

On May 28 we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers with host Shelagh Rogers!

Join us at the Leslie and Anna Dan Galleria, located at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, for a beautiful event where each finalist will read from their collection and we will announce the $10,000 poetry winner with help from RBC.

RSVP by May 17 via Facebook or by emailing jyu@writerstrust.com

5:30pm - Reception
6:15pm - Finalist Poetry Reading

https://www.writerstrust.com/events/rbc-bronwen-wallace-award-ceremony/

Triple book launch with Joelle Barron, Ellie Sawatzky, Alessandra Naccarato & special guests. Hosted by Moe Clark.

Join us for the launch of three new poetry collections that blur the line between the magic and the mundane: Highly Sensitive Femme by Alessandra Naccarato (Frog Hollow Press), Rhinocerotic by Ellie Sawatzky (Frog Hollow Press), and Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron (Ice House Press).

Come for the poetry and stay for the tarot readings; rumour has it Baba Yaga will be in attendance. 

6 pm Doors / 6:30 - 8 pm Show / Wise Hall / $10 Advance / $12 At Door

Room is celebrating the launch of issues 39.2 ("Between Shadows") and 39.3 ("Canadian Gothic"). I will be reading from my story "Drone", which was published in the Canadian Gothic issue. 

For more info, see the Facebook event here. 

“Inspired by Mike McGee’s Kitchen Sessions, and the local Under the Bed series run by RC Weslowski and Wilhelmina Salmi, Chicken Sessions is a house concert, a poetry and story performance space, a potluck, a party, a salon with some Louisiana hospitality tossed together and served up by host and instigator Pamela Bentley in a big, beautiful East Van heritage house.” 

I will be performing a 20-minute set of poetry as the Poet Invited in Advance.

For more info, check out the Facebook event here.