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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

So honoured to read with @danielcowper.bsky.social for Delta Literary Arts Society’s Pages and Passages series this past November! Big thanks to @genevievewynand.bsky.social for hosting, and to @angelarebrec.bsky.social and her DLAS team for the wonderful hospitality!

Daniel Cowper and Catherine Lewis seated by Delta Literary Arts Society banner

Catherine Lewis reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Such a delight to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Seventeen-Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social this past September! Always terrific to read alongside such a talented lineup!

Group photo of Seventeen-Syllable Slam participants

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This summer, I was so honoured to read alongside Raoul Fernandes at Richmond Multicultural Community Services’ event The Art of Us: A Multicultural Open Mic!

Raoul Fernandes and Catherine Lewis standing next to a Richmond Multicultural Community Services banner

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I was so honoured to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus show for Pride this past July!✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨ Thrilled to share the stage with @ashleyfehr.bsky.social, @goldbard.bsky.social, & @spillious.bsky.social, hosted by Lucia Misch! Big thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!

Event readers and organizing team: Catherine Lewis, Goldbard, Spillious, Ashley Fehr, and Sean McGarragle in front row; Lucia Misch and Andrew Sutherland in back row

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

During Pride Month this year, I had the honour of designing and facilitating the Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for members of the LGBTQ+ community, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the organizing team for inviting me to design/facilitate this event! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Catherine Lewis standing by Surrey Muse banner while wearing Pride socks and a black flowered dress

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

So honoured to be the featured author at Surrey Muse in May! It was such a delight to read with artist Kim Brake, poet Hari Alluri (virtually), and writer Samantha Krilow, all hosted by Angel-Clare Linton!

Samantha Krilow, Angel-Clare Linton, Catherine Lewis, and Kim Brake standing by a Surrey Muse banner

Catherine Lewis reading from The Fiddlehead

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

So thrilled to be reading at the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for a third year in a row! ✨🎉✨ See you at 12:30pm tomorrow at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver! ❤️❤️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sevent...

Event Poster for Seventeen Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver on Saturday Sept 20, 2025 at 12:30pm

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

So honoured to be featured at Vancouver Poetry House’s Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time earlier this spring!! ✨🎉✨ So grateful to share my poetry on the #VanSlam stage, including from my chapbook ZIPLESS & from @pulpliterature.bsky.social! ✨❤️✨

Catherine Lewis up at the mic in a red and black dress.

Catherine Lewis up at the mic in a red and black dress, reading from
Issue 40 of Pulp Literature.

A copy of my chapbook ZIPLESS and of Pulp Literature’s Issue 40 sit on a patterned table next to a mixed-kebab platter.

#VanSlam audience fills a restaurant. Slam scorecards are up in the air.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Big thanks to queer litmag Plenitude Magazine for publishing my poem “Floss”! ✨🏳️‍🌈🎉 So honoured to be published in Plenitude a second time! ✨✨✨ #queerpoets This poem was written in Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Poetry class ✨🎉✨❤️✨ plenitudemagazine.ca/floss/

Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...

Event poster for Pride, the Pen & The Page - Writing Workshop for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So honoured to attend @tinhouse.bsky.social’s Winter Online Workshop last month! ✨❤️✨ Big thanks to my brilliant workshop leader @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for his generosity & for his craft lecture featuring this @dseuss.bsky.social book! Thanks to my fellow students for holding space ❤️ #thww

Class photo of Chen Chen’s workshop group at the 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop

Diane Seuss’s book FRANK: SONNETS rests atop a laptop keyboard while on-screen, the book’s final poem is displayed during Chen Chen’s craft lecture.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So cool to see my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news (including The National & CBC Vancouver), as yesterday’s federal election campaigning included a stop at a Toronto bookstore! ✨ Big thanks to Kyle Hawke & @roblucastaylor.bsky.social for spotting my chapbook cover on TV and letting me know! ✨

On CBC Vancouver News, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is seated in front of bookshelves. ZIPLESS is displayed on a shelf behind Singh’s left shoulder.

CBC Vancouver News anchor Dan Burritt presenting segment about NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who is seated in front of bookshelves. ZIPLESS is displayed on a shelf behind Singh’s left shoulder.

On CBC News, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and two other individuals are seated at a round table, in front of bookshelves. ZIPLESS is displayed on a shelf behind Singh’s left shoulder.

On The National, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is seated in front of bookshelves. ZIPLESS is displayed on a shelf behind Singh’s left shoulder.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So thrilled to be featured at Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time, next Monday, March 24! ✨❤️✨ This event is hybrid, so come to Shamshiri Caveman or join online! The top 4 competitors from that night’s 2-round slam will qualify for Van Slam Finals! www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vancou...

Catherine Lewis’s Artist Bio:

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, Catherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer whose debut poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press) is a finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Her work has been published in PRISM international, The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Pulp Literature, and Plenitude Magazine. She has performed at Verses Festival of Words, the Poets Corner Reading Series, and Word Vancouver.

About the Slam:

March 24th features a 2-round poetry slam. The 4 highest-scoring poets qualify for VAN SLAM FINALS on April 7th - and a chance to rep Vancouver in CIPS!

How the slam works:
- 10 spots available in-person on line (if more than 10 signed up, random draw decides who gets in)
- 3-minute time limit both rounds
- All poets perform one poem in the 1st round
- 5 highest-scoring poets perform a second poem in the 2nd round

BUT AS ALWAYS:
The point is NOT the points: the point is the POETRY!

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So grateful for in-person @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop hangouts in Vancouver, Canada! ✨✨✨ Yesterday I finally met the one fellow Vancouverite in my recent Tin House workshop… turns out Prachi Kamble & I graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio a year apart! #thww

Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Prachi Kamble at a café table

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So honoured to read at my @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop today! 🎉🎉🎉 Big thanks to my fellow workshop students for the wonderfully warm reception for my funny & sexy queer poem, and for your amazing readings! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️ It’s such a delight to be in community with you all! ❤️❤️❤️ #thww

Participant Readings Zoom reading signage

Catherine Lewis’s desk holding a MacBook, a ring light, a keyboard, and a monitor.

Selfie by Catherine Lewis. She is a Chinese Canadian woman with long black hair, wearing a flowered pink dress and a rainbow Pride Apple Watch band.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So glad to restock Chinatown bookstore @massybooks.bsky.social with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS! Always a delight to see owner Patricia Massy herself! ✨❤️✨ I still remember posting about my chapbook being published and Massy Books reaching out to ask about stocking it! ❤️❤️❤️

Holding up three copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS outside Massy Books

Catherine Lewis standing with Patricia Massy at the Massy Books counter. Patricia is holding the chapbook ZIPLESS.

Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Patricia Massy.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So honoured to be Featured Poet for the 1st time, at the annual @gunghaggis.bsky.social Banquet celebrating Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day! ✨🧧❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ I read a poem by Robert Burns & my Chinese New Year poem “Golden” from @pulpliterature.bsky.social, and ate haggis wonton & haggis lettuce wrap! 🎉🎉🎉

Catherine Lewis reading on stage from Pulp Literature’s Issue 37

Event organizer Todd Wong on stage in a traditional Chinese jacket and a kilt

Gung Haggis Fat Choy signage at Floata Seafood Restaurant

Haggis lettuce wrap, deep-fried haggis wonton dumplings, and jellyfish on serving platters

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

So honoured to read at a Robbie Burns Day celebration for the 1st time, between bagpipe segments! ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ I read the poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands” during my 1st visit to the Robert Burns Memorial statue, wearing the Harris Tweed hat I got while hubby & I visited Scotland to explore his heritage!

Catherine Lewis reading at the base of Robert Burns Memorial Statue in Stanley Park

Catherine Lewis and event organizer Todd Wong standing on the base of Robert Burns Memorial Statue

Todd Wong reading at the Robert Burns Memorial Statue

Bagpipers playing at the Robert Burns Memorial Statue

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So glad to restock the always-delightful East Vancouver queer bookstore Cross and Crows with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS and to get some shopping done recently… I gawked at their beautiful rainbow merch and finally nabbed a copy of Melissa Febos’ Girlhood! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

Catherine Lewis in a tartan dress standing next to in-store display of her chapbook ZIPLESS

Display rack containing zines and chapbooks including ZIPLESS

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Huge thanks to the League of Canadian Poets for publishing my poem “I Will Never Know” in today’s Poetry Pause! This poem was an Honourable Mention for the League’s 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests! Written in solidarity with all women, cis and trans… you are all my sisters ❤️❤️❤️ poets.ca/i-will-never...

Poem “I Will Never Know” in Poetry Pause

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Beyond thrilled to be attending the 2025 @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop this February with faculty member @chenchenwrites.bsky.social! ✨🎉✨🏳️‍🌈✨ My first Tin House workshop! 🎉🎉🎉

Acceptance note for 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop

Chen Chen’s books WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES and YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT HAS EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY on a white table

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

So delighted that my poem “I Will Never Know” was selected as an Honourable Mention in the League of Canadian Poets’ 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests and is forthcoming in Poetry Pause! ✨✨✨ Congrats to the winners and to the other honourable mentions! ✨✨✨ poets.ca/summerlovin2...

Winners of the 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests: Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest winner Cheryl Chen for “God’s Love Language is Physical Touch”, and Arts & Letters Club of Toronto Foundation Poetry Award winner Pujita Verma for “WE BUY GOLD”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This Halloween, it was so fabulous to be a featured poet at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Famous Last Words for the 1st time, as part of the Heart of the City Festival! ❤️❤️❤️ So honoured to read with @kevinspenst.bsky.social, RC Weslowski, & Dina Del Bucchia, hosted by Sara Bynoe! ✨✨✨

Group photo of Andrew Sutherland, Sean McGarragle, Dina Del Bucchia, Catherine Lewis, Kevin Spenst, Sara Bynoe, Meris Goodfellow, and RC Weslowski, in our Halloween costumes

RC Weslowski, Dina Del Bucchia, Catherine Lewis, Kevin Spenst, and host Sara Bynoe seated on stage

Catherine Lewis up at the mic, holding a Kermit the Frog puppet

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This fall, I was so delighted to take part in the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen-Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver for the 2nd year in a row… my 3rd consecutive year in this festival! Congrats to Leslie Stark on being crowned the winner 👑 & thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!

Group shot of Erin Kirsh, Catherine Lewis, Sonya Littlejohn, RC Weslowski, Leslie Stark, Duncan Shields, Sean McGarragle, Jenny Gatchalian, Trevana Spilchen, Warren Dean Fulton, Kayla Price, Kyle Hawke, Amanda Eagleson, David Geary, Vitamin F

Leslie Stark being crowned the winner by organizer Sean McGarragle

Word Vancouver flyer and program stating “Celebrating Community: 30 Years of Word Vancouver”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This fall, I was so delighted to host Ellen Chang-Richardson’s Vancouver launch for their full-length debut BLOOD BELIES at Massy Arts Society! 🎉🎉🎉 At this event, we also celebrated Patrick Grace’s full-length debut DEVIANT, and heard some fabulous work from @davidlywrites.bsky.social! ✨✨✨

Ellen Chang-Richardson up at the mic, reading from their book BLOOD BELIES

Patrick Grace up at the mic, reading from his book DEVIANT

David Ly up at the mic, reading from his book DREAM OF ME AS WATER

Catherine Lewis up at the mic, holding a copy of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s book BLOOD BELIES

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

So thrilled to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus series for the 1st time this summer… it was such an honour to read with Franz Seachel, Jillian Christmas, & RC Weslowski, hosted by SJ Valiquette at The Pleasant! ✨✨✨ Squeezing truths into a pack of lies was sooo difficult! 🤣

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

To kick off Pride Month 2024, I was so honoured to read at Pride and Plenitude, presented by queer litmag Plenitude Magazine at the Vancouver Public Library! Loved reading with Plenitude's Managing Editor Patrick Grace & Founding Editor Andrea Routley, along with fellow Plenitude contributors! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

Patrick Grace, Catherine Lewis, Andrea Routley, Shaelin Bishop, David Ly, and Meghan Kemp-Gee standing on stage

Cross and Crows bookseller Nena and Patrick Grace seated behind a book sales table

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This summer, I was so honoured to curate & host a Vancouver Poetry House edition of Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Poetry in the Park featuring Franz Seachel and Sonya Littlejohn, who routinely bring their talents to classrooms via VPH's WordPlay program! Thanks to Janet Kvammen for the invite ❤️

Sonya Littlejohn, Franz Seachel, Janet Kvammen, and Catherine Lewis posed around banners reading “Verses Festival of Words” and “Poetry in the Park”

Sonya Littlejohn on stage, with a mic in hand

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So honoured to serve as TriCities Poetry’s first-ever feature poet, at this summer’s PRIDE POURS poetry night at Brave Brewing Company! 🏳️‍🌈 Big thanks to Aaron Hunter for the invitation - you’ve done such fabulous work with this fun open mic series! ✨✨✨

Catherine Lewis up at the mic, reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS

TriCities Poetry organizer Aaron Hunter up at the mic

Frontage of Brave Brewing Company in Port Moody

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

For Pride Month 2024, I had the honour of designing/facilitating my 1st Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for LGBTQ+ folks, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the wonderful organizing team for the invite! Thanks so much to the folks who braved the rain to attend! 🏳️‍🌈

Catherine Lewis standing next to a banner with the text “Surrey Muse: An Interdisciplinary Art & Literature Presentation Group”

View of Surrey City Centre Library’s atrium

Signage stating “LGTBQ+ Writing Workshop with Catherine Lewis”

Trays of veggies, fruit, and cookies on a table

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

On Mother’s Day 2024, I was so delighted to read with Kawika Guillermo & @candietanaka.bsky.social & moderator @isabellawangbc.bsky.social on the panel Queer Asian Authors on Writing Chosen & Given Family, at the inaugural Bridges Literary Festival, presented by New Westminster Public Library! 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Catherine Lewis, Candie Tanaka, Isabella Wang, and Kawika Guillermo
standing in front of a wood-toned wall

Catherine Lewis, Candie Tanaka, Kawika Guillermo, and Isabella Wang seated behind a long table for a panel discussion

Catherine Lewis reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS while seated behind a long table

New Westminster Library signage for the event “Panel: Queer Asian Authors on Writing Chosen & Given Family”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This Asian Heritage Month, it was the greatest honour of my life to read with Joy Kogawa to celebrate her book FROM THE LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT. Thanks to Odd Meridian Arts, Joy Kogawa House, & Vancouver Poetry House for collaborating on this event, and to my fellow Asian Canadian poet readers! ❤️

Ziyian Kwan, curator Johnny Trinh, Joy Kogawa, Ange Yeung, Herbert Fong, Hari Alluri, Catherine Lewis, and Renite Manisha Gosal seated

Stacks of Joy Kogawa’s FROM THE LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT on a black table

Joy Kogawa up at the mic, reading from her book FROM THE LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT

Catherine Lewis up at the mic, reading from FROM THE LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

So delighted to be featured at Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Poetic Justice for National Poetry Month 2024! So honoured to read with fellow feature @isabellawangbc.bsky.social, hosted by Alan Hill! Big thanks to Janet Kvammen for the invite, and thanks to our attendees & open-mic readers!

Catherine Lewis, Isabella Wang, Alan Hill, and Janet Kvammen by Poetic Justice event signage

Catherine Lewis up at the mic reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS. Catherine is in a flowered pink dress and strappy red stiletto heels.

Isabella Wang up at the mic, wearing a dark jumpsuit and dark sandals.

Host Alan Hill up at the mic, in a pink short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Recapping 2024 moments… earlier this year I had the pleasure and privilege of hosting/moderating the brilliant @yilinwriter.bsky.social’s launch for THE LANTERN AND THE NIGHT MOTHS, featuring fellow readers @neilaitken.bsky.social & @leataranto.bsky.social, at the Vancouver Public Library! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Lea Taranto, Catherine Lewis, Yilin Wang, and Neil Aitken standing on stage

Stacks of Yilin Wang’s THE LANTERN AND THE NIGHT MOTHS for sale at the book table

Yilin Wang reading at the Vancouver Public Library podium

Lea Taranto, Catherine Lewis, Yilin Wang, and Neil Aitken seated on stage for a panel discussion

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

So thrilled to have attended my 2nd @banffcentre Online Residency this year, the Late Winter Writers Residency, taught by @thisisannick.bsky.social (for us poets) & @fparker.bsky.social (for the novelists)… Big thanks to Annick for being a fabulous #QueerLit mentor 🏳️‍🌈 & for the amazing feedback! ❤️

Three of Annick MacAskill’s poetry collections (No Meeting Without Body, Murmurations, and Shadow Blight) spread out on the floor

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Merry Christmas, folks! ✨🎄✨ My only published poem featuring Christmas dinner is “How I Earned My Queer Card” in @pulpliterature.bsky.social’s Issue 40, Autumn 2023 ✨🏳️‍🌈✨

“How I Earned My Queer Card” (page 1) by Catherine Lewis

“How I Earned My Queer Card” (page 2) by Catherine Lewis

Cover of Pulp Literature, Issue 40, Winter 2023

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

So thrilled to catch spoken word superstar Shane Koyczan’s Vancouver show at the Vogue Theatre earlier this month! ✨✨✨✨✨

Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Shane Koyczan and his book Stickboy.

Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre marquee featuring Shane Koyczan

Shane Koyczan on stage solo in front of red curtains

The Shane Koyczan book Stickboy being held on the Vogue Theatre’s balcony ledge

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Huge thanks to the League of Canadian Poets for publishing my super-queer poem “Out of My League” in today’s Poetry Pause! 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 This poem was written during a warmup round for the 2023 CV2 Magazine 2-Day Poem Contest, so some of you may recognize the words I snuck in! ✨ mailchi.mp/poets.ca/out...

(given the CV I didn't have to google), how far out of my league I am dating tonight
(though they messaged me first on that dating app),

how much I want to impress them, but all I have
are big fake lashes and Rihanna-branded lip gloss.
This happens whenever I swing for the fences.

I am so lucky, I whisper into their ear,
between our street corner kisses good night.
I have never said this on a date before.

The barometric pressure grows
as I wait to hear back about another date.
As I wait. As I wait.

No relief when it rains, for no plans can we ever agree upon, before my therapist tells me
I've scared off another date once again.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey writer fam, welcome to Bluesky! ❤️ To introduce my work… my debut poetry chapbook ZIPLESS is all about queer drama: sapphic yearning, Pride party dancefloors, and cocktails! 🏳️‍🌈 Now in its fourth printing from my publisher, The /tƐmz/ Review’s 845 Press! ✨ www.catherinewriter.com/zipless/

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Catching up on amazing summer photos I keep finding on my phone… Thrilled to host the New West Pride edition of Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Poetry in the Park this Pride Month, featuring David Ly and Jen Currin!!! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

RCLAS’s collage of photos from 2023-08-16 New West Pride edition of Poetry in the Park

David Ly reading on stage by New West Pride signage from his second full-length collection DREAM OF ME AS WATER

Jen Currin reading on stage by New West Pride signage from their latest collection TRINITY STREET

Catherine Lewis reading on stage by New West Pride signage

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

So honoured to read at Historic Joy Kogawa House’s QueerAsian 2023 Fall Reading last Wednesday! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️✨ I couldn’t make it in person so I read virtually instead… big thanks to our brilliant facilitator, TWS alum author Emi Sasagawa, and my wonderful cohort for the fabulous term!! ✨❤️✨

Six LGBTQ Asians standing with Joy Kogawa’s standup in Kogawa House

Catherine Lewis standing in a black tank dress while reading from her iPad

“Welcome to Historic Joy Kogawa House” sign with copy of Emi Sasagawa’s novel ATOMWEIGHT, and Catherine’s laptop with Pride stickers

QueerAsian 2023 Fall Reading event banner

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Extraordinarily honoured to announce that my poem “Brideprice” has been longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.cbc.ca/books/litera... Thrilled to be part of this longlist of 32 poets!!! ✨🩷✨🩷✨ www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

Text “CBC Poetry Prize Longlist: Brideprice by Catherine Lewis” with author photo of Catherine Lewis (a middle-aged Chinese Canadian woman with wavy black hair, wearing a sleeveless black dress)

Screenshot from CBC Books website with 32 author photos and headline “32 writers from across Canada make 2023 CBC Poetry Prize longlist” with accompanying text: “The winner will receive $6,000, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 16 and the winner will be announced on Nov. 23.”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

So thrilled @pulpliterature.bsky.social has just published my poem “How I Earned My Queer Card,” 1st Runner-up for the 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry, in the Autumn 2023 issue! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🎉 pulpliterature.com/subscribe/back… Thanks to contest judges Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Emily Osborne & Daniel Cowper! ✨🩷✨

Pulp Literature Issue 40, Autumn 2023 cover, depicting two astronauts

Issue description: cover art by Tais Teng, and writing by Robert J Sawyer, Mel Anastasiou, JM Landels, Cat Girczyc, CZ Tacks, Claire Lawrence, Catherine Lewis, Mark Cameron, Graham J Darling, Jordan Bray, and CC Humphreys.

2023 Magpie Award announcement:
Winner - Claire Lawrence
1st Runner-up - Catherine Lewis
2nd Runner-up - Mark Cameron

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

One day late posting for #BisexualVisibilityDay! 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 Finally posting some Pride Weekend snaps from marching in both the Vancouver Dyke March and the Vancouver Pride Parade this year… #BisexualVisibilityMonth

Selfie of Catherine Lewis walking in the Vancouver Dyke March, holding up a Bisexual Pride fan, in a black face mask.

Selfie of Catherine Lewis on the grassy start line of Vancouver Dyke March, holding up a Bisexual Pride fan, in a black face mask, sunglasses, a black pleather choker, and a black mesh bodysuit.

Selfie of Catherine Lewis walking in the Vancouver Pride Parade, holding up a Bisexual Pride fan, in a black face mask, a white ball cap, and a white top.

Vancouver Dyke March tote bag on a folding chair with a yellow gerbera and a wadded-up Bi Pride flag sticking out.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

So honoured to see our New West Pride Poetry in the Park reading featured in New West Record!!! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨ www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/pho…

Screencap of New West Record article with headline “Poetry in the Park showcases award-winning poets for Pride Week”

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

I got ID’d at this liquor store again last night… thanks to their employees for thinking I look under 30! 🤣

Middle-aged Chinese Canadian woman wearing a white face mask and false lashes, and carrying White Claw

BC Liquor Store signage: “If you look under 30, we’re going to ask you for 2 pieces of ID.”

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