Charlene Kwiatkowski – Surrey Muse

Charlene Kwiatkowski is a writer often inspired by visual art and urban spaces. Her debut poetry chapbook ‘Let Us Go Then’ came out December 2021 with the Alfred Gustav Press. Her work has been published in Arc, Barren Magazine, PRISM international, and elsewhere. In 2020, she won Pulp Literature’s Magpie Award for Poetry. Charlene has a Master’s degree from the University of Victoria in English Literature, and she has worked at Surrey Art Gallery for the past eight years. She lived in Vancouver for almost a decade before recently moving to Coquitlam where she hopes to find poems waiting to be written in unexpected, even suburban places.

Visit Charlene’s blog
textingthecity
Follow her on Twitter
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Contact Charlene
char.kwiatkowski@gmail.com

At the September 23, 2022 gathering of Surrey Muse, Charlene will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: friday-september-23

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The 29th Virtual Gathering of Surrey Muse – Friday September 23 / 2022

119th Gathering

9-23-2022

Featured Artists

Author Janis Harper
Poet Charlene Kwiatkowski
Musician Siadic
Emerging Poet Tanmeet Kaur
Featured Art by Titus Kaphar
Host Jovian Radheshwar

LIVE Watch Party
Friday, September 23, 2022
5:30 -7:00 PM (PT)
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Free event
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Surrey Muse Program – July-November 2022

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Featured art by Gaelle Weissberg, Surrey Muse, March 2022

  

Session 22
July-November 2022

July 22
Author Tāriq Malik 
Poet Hari Alluri
Painter Candice James
Emerging Poet Jessica Lee McMillan
Host Jovian Radheshwar

August 26
Author Matt Nagin
Poet Josephine LoRe
Musician Enrico Renz
Emerging Writer Angus Pratt
Host Mariam Zohra D

September 23
Author Janis Harper
Poet Charlene Kwiatkowski
Musician Siadic
Emerging Poet Tanmeet Kaur
Host Jovian Radheshwar

October 28
Author Claudia Cornwall
Poet Heather Haley
Artist Liz Toohey-Wiese
Open Mic Opener Zofia Rose
Host Mariam Zohra D.

November 25
Author (fiction) Winner, Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022
Musician Winner, Faith Nolan Award for Music 2022
Author (nonfiction) Winner, Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022
Poet Winner, Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022
Visual Artist Winner, Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Art 2022
Hosts Mariam Zohra D, Sana Janjua, Jovian Radheshwar

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Surrey Muse program is put together twice a year, in Nov/Dec for January-June session, and in May/June for July-November session. Dates are chosen by the participants through an invitation. Participants are invited from a recommendations list that stays open throughout the year. To recommend authors, poets and artist/performers to be featured at Surrey Muse, please use the online recommendations form.

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