Open Mic Pride Poetry Night

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This event will be emcee’d by WANL’s Youth Advocate Jason Normore.

This event is presented by: The Writers’ Alliance of NL, NL Public Libraries, Spoken Word St. John’s, and Quadrangle NL.

Our Pride Poetry Open Mic event is a part of the official St. John’s Pride 2022 celebrations.

Indicate on your registration if you want to read or recite some poetry and we will open the floor to attendees as time allows.
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This is a HYBRID event so if you cannot attend in person, you can attend from home.

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Violet Drake is a queer, trans, and multiply disabled artist and writer from the rural community of Lawn on the Burin Peninsula. Now based in St. John’s, her multidisciplinary practice blends life narrative, illustration, photography, and performance together to form a coastal chimera.
Co-author of transVersing, her recent work can be found locally and nationally in Riddle Fence, Understorey, Newest Magazine, Home Out of It Podcast, and Lawnya Vawnya Newsletter: Weird & Wired.

Writer and biologist S.A. Leger, originating from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, lives with her wife and dachshund in Newfoundland, Canada.
She is an information designer by day and an ornithologist most other times.
Her poems have most recently appeared in The Dodge, Storm Cellar, Dunes Review, the tiny, Mantra Review, and Kestrel, among others.

Melissa Samms lives, works, and plays in their home territory, the north shore of the Katalisk in southwestern Ktaqmkuk, whose settler name is Codroy Valley. They’ve been writing since they first learned to put words on paper, but have only recently mustered up the gumption to actually share their creativity with others. Most days, you can find Liss reading, foraging, ranting about politics and history, and drinking their body weight in tea. Rant with them on Twitter at @MelissaSammsNL!

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