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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · 21d

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

Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

See you at my writing workshop this Saturday! ❤️❤️❤️

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! ✨✨✨

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 · May 24

Thank you so much, Alison! ✨❤️

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · May 24

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 · May 16

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 · May 15

So fabulous to read with poets Rose Henbest and @meghankempgee.bsky.social on May 4th to celebrate Rose’s new chapbook!! ✨🎉✨🍸✨

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 🍸🍸🍸

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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! ✨✨✨

surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · May 8

So honoured to read at Surrey Muse with such a fabulous lineup on May 24th! ✨❤️✨❤️✨

surreymuse.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...

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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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · May 2

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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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · Apr 1

Oh my goodness 🥰🥺 thank you!!!

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.

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social · Mar 29

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...

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Mar 26

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 · Mar 26

So cool to spot my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news! ✨✨✨

Thanks so much to my pressmate Rob for the catch! ✨✨✨

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...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Mar 18

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! 💐💐💐💐💐

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Mar 17

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 · Mar 4

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 · Feb 25

Cackling that this is your impression of me, Sarah! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Feb 25

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! ✨❤️✨

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · Feb 24

i'm delighted to be reading at my wonderful friend and former classmate @leataranto.bsky.social's launch for her debut YA novel A Drop in the Ocean!!! May 21st at Iron Dog Books in Vancouver @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social

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Book Launch: A Drop in the Ocean by Léa Taranto, with guests Yilin Wang and Catherine Lewis

Indigenous-owned bookshop serving metro Vancouver

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Big Witch Energy @erinbraincandy.bsky.social · Feb 21

I love you, Vancouver BlueSky friends.

A screenshot of BlueSky of eight BlueSky accounts all posting some variation of "Earthquake?"

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Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social · Feb 21

First earthquake I’ve felt in a long time!! #Vancouver

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J.G. Chayko @jgchayko.bsky.social · Feb 19

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.

www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

Reading Series

www.sfu.ca

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

Big thanks for your kind words, Mai-Linh! Looking forward to your reading! ✨🎉✨

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

Big thanks!! ✨🎉✨

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

Thank you so much for your kind words - I truly appreciated all the love in the chat!! ✨❤️🎉😭✨

Looking forward to learning more about your work!! ✨✨✨

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