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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙
@catwrites604.bsky.social
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Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers

Vancouver, Canada

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Sep 19
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! ❤️❤️

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Event Poster for Seventeen Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver on Saturday Sept 20, 2025 at 12:30pm
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danielcowper.bsky.social
Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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
September 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

See you at my writing workshop this Saturday! ❤️❤️❤️
catwrites604.bsky.social Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · May 15
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! ✨✨✨

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Event poster for Pride, the Pen & The Page - Writing Workshop for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
June 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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.
May 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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 ✨🎉✨❤️✨

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Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss” Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss” Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s bio
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
catwrites604.bsky.social
So fabulous to read with poets Rose Henbest and @meghankempgee.bsky.social on May 4th to celebrate Rose’s new chapbook!! ✨🎉✨🍸✨
meghankempgee.bsky.social Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · May 15
This was so fun! Reading poetry with @catwrites604.bsky.social and Rose Henbest at a fabulously classy gin joint 🍸🍸🍸
May 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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
May 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
So honoured to read at Surrey Muse with such a fabulous lineup on May 24th! ✨❤️✨❤️✨

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Surrey Muse Gathering – Saturday, May 24 / 2025
143rd Gathering Featured Artists Author Catherine LewisPoet Hari AlluriVisual Artist Kim BrakeEmerging Artist Samantha KrilowFeatured Art by Shehan MadawelaHost Angel-Clare Linton Saturday, May 24,…
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May 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
I’ll be reading with @meghankempgee.bsky.social in North Vancouver this Sunday evening to celebrate Rose Henbest’s new chapbook…See you there, folks! ✨❤️✨❤️✨

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May 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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sjonespoet.bsky.social
Oh my goodness 🥰🥺 thank you!!!
newestpress.bsky.social NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · Apr 1
🎉 🎉 Congratulations to Samantha Jones!! Her debut collection ATTIC RAIN has just been announced as a finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry!

✨ Get your copy now!
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On a gradient orange background, Congratulations to Samantha Jones! Stars surround the blue book cover with cascading happy faces. Attic Rain, poems by Samantha Jones. Finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Logos for Writers' Guild of Alberta and NeWest Press.
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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.
April 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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rclas.bsky.social
RCLAS is on Bluesky! Let's start things off with our call for submissions for the annual Write On! Contest (Fiction, Non-Fiction & Poetry). Help us spread the word! Details on our website: rclas.com/2025-write-o...
Contest poster with fuchsia & white background "Write On! Contest" in typewriter cutout font and crow perched on letters and Royal City Literary Arts Society letter block logo in grey and purple. Deadline May 4th written on black stripe across poster.
March 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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.
March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
So cool to spot my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news! ✨✨✨

Thanks so much to my pressmate Rob for the catch! ✨✨✨
roblucastaylor.bsky.social Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · Mar 25
Hey look, @catwrites604.bsky.social's poetry chapbook, "Zipless," has made it onto the headline news! Canadian elections are something else 🤣

You can learn more about the chapbook, and more of 845 Press' titles, here: www.thetemzreview.com/845-press-ch...
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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tinhouse.bsky.social
Congratulations to our 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!! We're so delighted to be able to celebrate them and can't wait to see what moves they continue to make in the writing world. Let's all give these amazing Scholars their flowers! 💐💐💐💐💐
March 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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...
Event poster for March 24 Van Slam, featuring Catherine Lewis: Shamshiri Caveman (139 Keefer) & Online Doors at 7pm | Sign up at 7:30pm | Show at 8pm $8 advance tickets | $10 to 15 sliding scale at door (No one turned away for lack of funds) 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!
March 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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 A cappuccino on a café counter
March 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
catwrites604.bsky.social
Beyond thrilled to be hosting the launch event for my friend @leataranto.bsky.social’s debut YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN on May 21st, with guest reader @yilinwriter.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

See you all at Iron Dog Books, folks! ✨❤️✨
February 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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erinbraincandy.bsky.social
I love you, Vancouver BlueSky friends.
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February 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
First earthquake I’ve felt in a long time!! #Vancouver
February 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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jgchayko.bsky.social
On February 24th I'll be back with The Writer's Studio Reading Series sharing some work, a light-hearted humorous essay on an experience from my early teen years.

We need some light in the world.

Readings begin at 7:00 pm at Container Brewing Vancouver Space limited.

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February 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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
Catherine Lewis on screen on Zoom 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.
February 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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.
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
catwrites604.bsky.social
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
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This poem: it's by Matthew Buckley Smith, from his book Midlife -
February 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM