They grew up in Northern British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Saik'uz First Nation but moved down south to escape the snow. He is the author of Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse (Intellect Press, 2016).Įli Mushumanski is Victoria's tenth Youth Poet Laureate and recently completed a double major in Writing and English with Honours at the University of Victoria. A professor at Royal Roads University, he studies the intersections of gender, language, culture, and communication from multiple methodological approaches, including performative writing. Matthew heinz has been living on Vancouver Island since 2005. Her other honours include The Sunburst Award and the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. She’s published three novels for children and youth, a book of poetry, and a collection of short stories. Memorial Award for gender-bending speculative fiction. Her second book, The Kappa Child, received the James Tiptree Jr. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in Lekwungen Territory. Lorna Crozier has called them “fiery calls to action.in a world rife with inequity and injustice.”
They revise historical narratives, scrutinize the capricious heart, and struggle to find grace notes of love and of beauty. Donawa’s poems have appeared in poetry magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, transport buses, parks and pubs, are inhabited by casualties of colonizing desires. Her second, Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions, was published in 2021 as one of the Frontenac Quartet. Her first book, Thin Air of the Knowable, Brick, 2017) was a Gerald Lampert Award finalist. Wendy Donawa is an uninvited but grateful guest on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen-speaking Songhees and Esquimalt people. The winner of the Vallum Award for Poetry, twice finalist for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award, and recipient of an honour of distinction from the Writers Trust of Canada for emerging LGBTQ writers, he lives in Victoria. His poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, England, Germany and Slovenia. Please be kind and respectful of others.)Īli Blythe is the author of two critically acclaimed books exploring trans-poetics: the debut collection, Twoism, and the follow-up, Hymnswitch. (Doors open at 6:30pm)Ĭity Hall, Antechamber (Masks are a personal choice at City Hall.
Join City of Victoria Poet Laureate John Barton, local poets and Special Guest Mayor Lisa Helps to celebrate Pride Month in Victoria.įeaturing: Ali Blythe, Wendy Donawa, Hiromi Goto, matthew heinz, Eli Mushumanski, Shō Yamagushikuħ p.m. Wilde About Sappho: A Pride Reading of Local Queer Writers
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