Available for select readings, panel discussions, workshops, lectures, and writing festivals.
Queries: ZG Stories, Anvil Press.
Readings & Events
Franco-Anglo Reading
An evening of bilingual readings (French- and English-language) to celebrate the launch of Vancouver-based writer’s Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s poetry book Trauma Head and the anthology Against Death: 35 Essays on Living. Invited readers are Anita Anand, Françoise Major, and Chloé Savoie-Bernard. The event will be hosted by Melissa Bull.
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Vous êtes convié.e.s à une soirée de lectures bilingues (en français et en anglais) à l’occasion du lancement du recueil de poèmes Trauma Head de l’écrivaine vancouvéroise Elee Kraljii Gardiner, et du collectif Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, qu’elle a dirigé. Anita Anand, Françoise Major et Chloé Savoie-Bernard se joindront à elle au micro lors de cette soirée animée par Melissa Bull.
Against Death Launch with Nikki Reimer
2019/09/26September 26, 2019 @ 7pm
Shelf Life Books
1302 4 St SW # 100
Calgary, Alberta
T2R 0X8
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Against Death Launch with Nikki Reimer
Featuring readings by Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Nikki Reimer & guests.
Against Death Launch
2019/09/25September 25, 2019 @ 6pm
Hood 29
4470 Main St
Vancouver, BC
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Against Death Launch
Poets Rise Up
2019/09/08September 8, 2019 @ 3pm
Art Action Hub
2960 W 4th Ave
Vancouver, BC
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Poets Rise Up
A reading of eco poetry by A. Rajdeep Dhaliwal, Rita Wong, Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano and MC Lozan Yamolky. Rita was released on Sep 4 from prison where she was incarcerated for peaceful protest of the pipeline. I’ll read a poem of hers in celebration.
Roundtable on Memory, Congress 2019
2019/06/06June 6, 2019 @ 1:30pm
UBC
AMS Nest 2311
Roundtable on Memory, Congress 2019
I will be reading my poem on memory from the multidisciplinary anthology, Memory (Peter Wall Institute, 2018), and taking part in a panel roundtable with other contributors. More info here.
Alt-Congress
2019/06/03June 3, 2019 @ 7pm
Book Warehouse
4118 Main St
Vancouver, BC
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Alt-Congress
Reading with Juliane Okot Bitek, jays simpson, Isabella Wang, Cole Mash. Sherryda Warrener, Kevin Chong, Clint Burnham, Anne Simpson, Joel Katelnikoff, Jordan Abel, Heather Jessup, Thor Polukoshko, Mackenzie Ground, Mandy Len Catron.
Lunch Poems
2019/05/15May 15, 2019 @ 12pm
SFU Harbour Centre
Vancouver, BC
Lunch Poems
Reading with Matt Rader
2019/05/14May 14, 2019 @ 7pm
Book Warehouse
4118 Main St
Vancouver, BC
Reading with Matt Rader
Matt is launching Visual Inspection , a multi-genre text about disability and illness, and I’ll be reading from Trauma Head.
Downtown Eastside Writers Collective
2019/04/18April 18, 2019 @ 2pm
Carnegie Community Centre
Downtown Eastside Writers Collective
I’ll be reading and leading some writing prompts!
Planet Earth Poetry
2019/04/12April 12, 2019
Hillside Coffee and Tea
103-1633 Hillside Avenue
Victoria, BC
Planet Earth Poetry
Reading with Ali Blythe.
AWP
2019/03/27March 27-30, 2019
Portland, Oregon
AWP
Book signing and off-site reading, details TK
Growing Room Festival
2019/03/13March 13, 2019 @ 4:30pm
Red Gate Revue Stage
Pay What You Can (recommended: $12.50)
Growing Room Festival
Panel with Maureen Medved and Juliane Okot-Bitek
TEXTUAL TACTICS FOR GROWING WORDS AND STORIES OUT OF DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
WHAT KINDS OF WRITING TACTICS CAN EXPLAIN OR RELATE HIGH-INTENSITY CONCEPTS SUCH AS MORTALITY, ILLNESS, OR MORAL INJURY? THIS PANEL WILL EXPLORE HOW EXTREME SITUATIONS MAKE IT TO THE PAGE AND WHAT CHOICES THE AUTHORS MADE TO CONVEY UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES.