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Naava Smolash – Surrey Muse

Naava Smolash is the author of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture (AK Press 2019) that resulted from her essay ‘The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture’ that went viral in 2016. Naava holds a PhD in English Literature from Simon Fraser University, and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio. Her work appears in academic and popular publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, West Coast Line, Briarpatch, Everyday Feminism, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. A longtime community organizer, she was a member of the No One is Illegal-Vancouver collective from 2005-2008 and the Media Democracy Day-Vancouver collective from 2008-2010. She is currently working on a speculative fiction manuscript titled Cipher. Originally from Montreal, Naava lives in East Vancouver and teaches in the English department at Douglas College.

Read more about Naava’s book
akpress.org/turn-this-world-inside-out
View her article
the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture
Contact Naava Smolash
naava.smolash@gmail.com

At the September 27 gathering of Surrey Muse, Naava will be the Booksigning Author. More information about the event is here: september-27-2019-gathering

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Chimedum Ohaegbu – Surrey Muse

Chimedum Ohaegbu is an author and editor of fantasy fiction who studies English literature and creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her professional debut ‘Toothsome Things’ was longlisted for the Nommo Award for African Science Fiction and Fantasy. She’s Uncanny Magazine’s assistant editor and a recipient of both the full 2017 Tan Seagull Scholarship for Young Writers and a 2018 Katherine Brearley Arts Scholarship. Her work is published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons, This Magazine, SAD Magazine, Honey & Lime Lit, and The Capilano Review.

Visit Chimedum’s website
chimedum.wordpress.com
Follow on Twitter
@ChimedumOhaegbu
Contact Chimedum
chimedum.ohaegbu@gmail.com

At the September 27 gathering of Surrey Muse, Chimedum will be the Featured Author. More information about the event is here: september-27-2019-gathering

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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September 27-2019 Gathering of Surrey Muse

86th Gathering

Featured art by Ed Kuris, poster design by Mariam Zohra

September 27, 2019
Author Chimedum Ohaegbu
Poet Jessica Johns
Performer Tim Mar
Open Mic Opener Randeep Purewall
Booksigning Author Naava Smolash
Featured Art by Ed Kuris
Host Mariam Zohra

5:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 405 – City Centre branch
Surrey Public Library
Phone: (604) 598-7420
(Surrey Central skytrain)

Open Mic
Book Table
Refreshments

Free event
Donations welcome

Updates will be posted here
Program
More about the gatherings
Gatherings

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Tamar Vokey – Surrey Muse

Tamar Vokey is a retired teacher whose love for writing has stayed strong since childhood when, at the age of 10, she wrote and illustrated her first book. Since then, she has dipped in many genres from personalized humorous greeting cards in the 80’s to early 2000’s, to writing poetry, short stories and flash fiction. One of her blogs got over 50,000 hits within the first year, when she decided it was best to quit while ahead and leave her readers itching for more. Her work has been published in From This Place, an anthology for Newfoundland women writers, a Grade 7 literature text book, and Downhome, a magazine published in Toronto for Newfoundlanders. Tamar is now working on two projects- the second edit of her NaNoWriMo book Oh My God!, and a collection of supernatural short stories titled 13×2.

Visit Tamar’s facebook profile
facebook.com/tamarelizabethvokey
Contact Tamar
tamar_vokey@yahoo.com

At the August 23 gathering of Surrey Muse, Tamar will begin the Open Mic Session. More information about the event is here: august-23-2019

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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Angel Edwards – Surrey Muse

Photo by Kent Mah

Angel Edwards is a Vancouver-based singer, songwriter, guitarist and poet who now performs as a solo artist. She has just launched her third book of poetry Spirits Dressed Up As Poems to add to her earlier two titles Tales in the Dreams Garden and Lust Unfiltered By Love, with Silver Bow publishing in 2018 and 2019. Angel’s work has been published in newspapers and magazines in Canada, Ireland, England, Africa, Romania USA and Croatia. She performs her music and poetry live and is available for hire.

Visit Angel’s website
angeledwards.ca
Listen to Angel’s music
reverbnation.com/angeledwards
Contact Angel
angeledwards@yahoo.com

At the August 23 gathering of Surrey Muse, Angel will be the Featured Performer. More information about the event is here: august-23-2019

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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Kwantlen, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Asel Omar – Surrey Muse

Asel Omar is a Russian Canadian writer and scholar from Kazakhstan who arrived in Vancouver earlier this year. Writing in Russian, she has published four books of poetry and short fiction titled ‘Credo’, ‘Early Colds’, ‘Blue Wolf’ and ‘Tengri Talisman’. She has also written movie scripts and philosophical articles. Her works have been published in Russia, France, Serbia, USA and Montenegro. She is a member of the Russian and Kazakhstan PEN. Asel graduated from Moscow Literary Institute in the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. She worked as a PR specialist for commercial companies in Moscow, and taught philosophy in higher educational institutions.

Visit Asel’s Facebook page
facebook.com/asel.omar.9619
Contact Asel
gal788788@gmail.com

At the August 23 gathering of Surrey Muse, Asel will be the Featured Author. More information about the event is here: august-23-2019

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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Kwantlen, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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August 23-2019 Gathering of Surrey Muse

85th Gathering

Featured art by Ed Kuris, poster design by Mariam Zohra

August 23, 2019
Author Asel Omar
Poet Isabella Wang
Performer Angel Edwards
Open Mic Opener Tamar Vokey
Featured Art by Ed Kuris
Host Fauzia Rafique

5:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 405 – City Centre branch
Surrey Public Library
Phone: (604) 598-7420
(Surrey Central skytrain)

Open Mic
Book Table
Refreshments

Free event
Donations welcome

Updates will be posted here
Program
More about the gatherings
Gatherings

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Support our Projects
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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
on the unceded territories of the
Kwantlen, Katzie, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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