Wayde Compton – Surrey Muse

Wayde Compton is an author, editor, educator and a publisher who has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015, and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. Wayde’s work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, Wayde co-founded Commodore Books, Western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. He has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-18, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. His latest book, The Blue Road, is a fantasy graphic novel for young adults, illustrated by April dela Noche Milne. Wayde is now working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as a surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century. Wayde teaches in the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster and Coquitlam.

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At the May 27, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Wayde will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: sat-may-27

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Yanli Tang – Surrey Muse

Yanli Tang (she/her) is a painter, media producer and a photographer who grew up in China and she now lives in Vancouver exploring and synthesizing her art with different mediums such as poetry, writing, woodwork, pottery, modeling, live performances, and audio-visual experiences. Yanli is actively involved in West Coast music events bringing inspiration and beauty of art on-site, live-painting performances on stage, and face/body painting for crowds on dance floor. With a decade of experience as the founder of one of the best underground record shops, music labels and band managers in China, it was a logical transition for Yanli to interact with local underground live music scene and the rave communities she loves. Yanli is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist who has been working full time in the field since 2017. This year, she is focusing on a series of big canvas paintings, a set of female photography themes, and videography.

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At the May 27, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Yanli will be the Artist-At-Work creating art while readings are happening. More about the event is here: sat-may-27

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Eimear Laffan – Surrey Muse

Eimear Laffan is an emerging poet whose debut collection of poetry ‘aboutness’ will be published in the fall of 2023 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. In 2022, she was a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Emerging Poetry Prize and she was shortlisted for the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in Ambit, Funicular, The Ex-Puritan, wildness, and elsewhere. Eimear lives in Nelson, British Columbia.

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Janel Rae – Surrey Muse

Janel Rae is a singer, songwriter and media producer who has released three albums, and is now working on her debut musical ‘Marianne’. Born in Kelowna BC, Janel began performing and creating music at five, growing up at a piano, in a studio and on musical theatre stages, steeped in song. In 2019, she graduated from The Randolph College for Performing Arts where she won a Governor General’s award. In 2022, she was selected as the Third Place Winner of the debut Faith Nolan Award for Music. Living happily in Toronto, Janel’s art explores the oldest themes: death, dreams, justice, love and self-actualization. As the sole performer, producer, and engineer of much of her music, Janel combines the mysteries of the forest where she grew up and the clatter of the city she lives in to stitch together sonic worlds. Living happily in Toronto, Janel directs music videos, teaches voice and song creation, acts in indie films, and makes clothes.

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Hasan Namir – Surrey Muse

Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian author and poet who has published five books of poetry and fiction. His title God in Pink (2015) won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2015 by The Globe and Mail. He is also the author of poetry book War/Torn (2019, Book*Hug Press), children’s book The Name I Call Myself (2020, Arsenal Pulp Press), Umbilical Cord (Book*Hug Press) and Banana Dream (2023, Neal Porter Books). His work has been featured on Huffington Post, Shaw TV, Airbnb, in the film ‘God in Pink: A Documentary’, Breakfast Television Toronto, CTV Morning Live Saskatoon. He was recently named a writer to watch by CBC books, and he was the 2021 LGBTQ2s+ guest curator for Word Vancouver. Hasan graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English where he received the Ying Chen Creative Writing Student Award. He now lives on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen First Nations, with his husband and their child.

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At the May 27, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Hasan will be the Featured Author. More about the event is here: saturday-may-27

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

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