Amber Dawn — Reading & Signing

Saturday Mar 05 2016 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium

Reading & Signing How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir and Where the words end and my body begins (Arsenal Pulp Press). Presented by The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

Can poetry disrupt the dominant narrative? Can poetry be a form of resistance? Can poetry help us heal ourselves and our communities? Author Amber Dawn will read from her hybrid poetry memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir and her newest poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins as texts to explore poetry as an activist and healing tool.

Amber Dawn is a writer living on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir won the 2013 Vancouver Book Award. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue. Her newest book Where the words end and my body begins is a collection of glosa form poems. She currently teaches creative writing at Douglas College and the University of British Columbia, as well as volunteer mentors at several community-driven art and healing spaces.

See:

Where the words end and my body begins

– Trade paperback

by Amber Dawn – $14.95 – Add to Cart

The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner. Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collecti…

How Poetry Saved My Life

– Trade paperback

by Amber Dawn – $15.95 – Add to Cart – $15.95

Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalist A memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author’s lifeline. Amber Dawn’s acclaimed first novel Sub R…