Carol Neuman – Surrey Muse

Carol Neuman is a poet, writer, literacy activist and a public speaker. Her features on arts and culture, columns on civic engagement, and short form poetry and memoir have appeared in publications including BeatRoute, SEE Magazine, the Edmonton Journal, Room Magazine, and, in the anthology Big: Stories of Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (Caitlin Press, 2020). In 2013, Carol was honored as one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 for her work as a community leader and organizer. She has served as a board member of the New West Public Library, LitFest – Canada’s non-fiction literary festival, and Vancouver’s Reel Causes among others. Her love of writing was sparked through an after-school job in the late-90’s where she first published concert and movie reviews on one of the world’s earliest online youth culture websites. Today, Carol makes her home on the traditional territories of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples, where she leads a literacy organization serving children and families across British Columbia.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Carol will be featured as an Emerging Poet. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Tamar Haytayan – Surrey Muse

Tamar Haytayan is a writer and photographer working from a personal and intuitive perspective to capture candid moments of the culture of everyday life. Tamar studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design in UK, and her body of work spans over the last 28 years. Exploration of memory, mortality and grief has been a major theme of her work. Two of her recent projects explore the idea of fate and memory after genocide and intergenerational trauma as well as the self in middle age. She has shown at the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Art (Yerevan, Armenia), PhotoHaus Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, USA), The Women’s Art Show (Vancouver, Canada), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), Los Angeles Centre of Photography (Los Angeles), The Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon), and has collaborated with the performance artist and poet Dr. Celeste Snowber (SFU). Tamar has received an Honorable Mention for the Norval Morrisseau Award 2022. At this time, she resides in Vancouver.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Tamar will be the Featured Artist. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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K.R. Byggdin – Surrey Muse

K.R.Byggdin by Danny Abriel / Dalhousie University

K.R. Byggdin is the author of Wonder World (Enfield & Wizenty 2022), a novel that explores the possibilities of queer belonging in a small Mennonite town. Their writing has also appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. K.R. is an alum of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod Mentorship program, the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive, and Dalhousie University’s English and Creative Writing program. They have received an Honorable Mention for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022. Born and raised on the Prairies, they now live in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, K.R. will feature as an Emerging Writer. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Daniela Elza – Surrey Muse

Daniela Elza is an author, poet, editor, mentor, and a creative writing instructor to writers of all ages. She has published five collections of poetry titled the broken boat (2020), the weight of dew (2012), milk tooth bane bone (2013), the book of it (2011), and slow erosions (2020)— a chapbook she wrote in collaboration with poet Arlene Ang. Daniela’s work has won numerous contests, is published internationally, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology multiple times. Daniela’s essays can be found in Riddle Fence, GRAIN, Motherwell, Queen’s Quarterly, About Place Journal and subTerrain. In 2022, her poems were placed second in the Ken Belford Poetry Prize for Social Justice, and Daniela became a founding member of the Place Mattering Matters Collective, that explores the poetry and math of home, and advocates for affordable housing in her community located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Daniela will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Daniel G. Scott – Surrey Muse

Daniel G Scott is a poet, educator and an arts organizer who has published six books of poetry including Travels with Athóma (Aeolus House, 2022), gnarled love, terrains, Random Excess and Aftertime with Ekstasis Editions. He is the editor of Voicing Suicide (Ekstasis Editions, 2020), an anthology of suicide poems with an afterword by Australian scholar, Dr. Katrina Jaworski. His title black onion, and two chapbooks street signs and Interrupted were published by Goldfinch Press while his chapbook [klee-shays] undone was released by Nose in Book Publishing in 2020. Daniel was the Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series in Victoria for nearly 6 years. His poems have been published in journals, anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications. Recently, several of his suicide poems have appeared in academic journal articles on the topic of suicide. He co-authored, with Shannon McFerran, The Girls Diary Project (University of Victoria, 2013), an account of research involving adolescent girls’ diaries. He won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick in 1984. Daniel is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Daniel will be the Featured Author. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Surrey Muse Gathering – Saturday March 25 / 2023

123rd Gathering

3-25-2023 (1)

Featured Artists

Author Daniel G. Scott
Poet Daniela Elza
Artist Tamar Haytayan
Emerging Writer K.R. Byggdin
Emerging Poet Carol Neuman
Featured Art by Ann Lovell
Host Michael Stark

Saturday, March 25, 2023
1:00 – 4:00 PM (PT)
Room 418, City Centre branch, Surrey Libraries
10350 University Drive, Surrey BC V3T 4B8
Phone: (604) 598-7426

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