Atlantic Books Presents: Reading Atlantic with Pride A celebration of Queer authors

Join us for this free event celebrating PEI-based authors from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Featuring book giveaways and readings by Sadie McCarney, Olivia Robinson, and Tanya Davis.

Sadie McCarney
Sadie McCarney is a queer and neurodivergent writer-performer based in Charlottetown. She is the author of the poetry collections Live Ones (University of Regina, 2019) and Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking (forthcoming from ECW Press, Spring 2023) as well as the found poetry performance text/ psych ward memoir Head War (Frog Hollow Press, 2021). Sadie’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Plenitude, Foglifter, and various literary journals.

Olivia Robinson
Originally from the Annapolis Valley, NS, Olivia Robinson now lives in Charlottetown, PEI with her dapper tuxedo cat, Puss. She completed her BA in English at the University of Prince Edward Island and her MA in English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her novel, The Blue Moth Hotel (published by Breakwater Books), won the 2022 PEI Book Award for Fiction.

Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis is an artist and performer based in Epekwitk / Prince Edward Island. She has released 4 records and two books, including How to be Alone, a collaboration with filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. In 2020, also with Dorfman, she released a follow up videopoem called How to be at Home, produced by the NFB as a response to the pandemic. She collaborates frequently across artistic genre, writing for animation and film as well as live and recorded music.

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