Events

SINGLE ONION #187

In-person and online!

WHAT: The Single Onion continues its fall season with four great poets: Tyler Engström, Leah Horlick, Samantha Jones, and Jaspreet Singh. 

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 20th, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW

AND the reading will be available via Zoom, if you register at this link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkcuGhrz8vGdGNDHermQVUFC3pQCrSTueo

About the readers:

Tyler Engström is a writer based in Calgary. In 2017 he was a finalist for the Writer’s Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poems have previously been collected in Drifting Like a Metaphor: Calgary Poets of Promise and have been featured individually elsewhere. Think of How Old We Could Get (Frontenac House, 2021) is his first book.

Leah Horlick is the author of three books of poetry. Her long-awaited, most recent collection Moldovan Hotel was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for both a ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a Stonewall Honor Title by the American Library Association in 2016. That same year, she won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada’s only award for LGBT emerging writers. After many years away, she now lives where she grew up: as a settler on Treaty Six Territory and the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon. Leah is the current Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Samantha Jones (she/her) is a scientist, poet, and editor based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) on Treaty 7 territory. She is a magazine and journal enthusiast with writing in THIS, Room, Grain, CV2, Arctic, GeoHumanities, and elsewhere. Her poetry has garnered international attention including the poem, “Ocean Acidification,” which was first published in Watch Your Head, and later featured in the Virtual Ocean Pavilion at COP26. Sam is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Calgary and has a background in geology. Her work also documents her experience living with OCD; her OCD visual poetry chapbook, Site Orientation, is available from the Blasted Tree (2022). Sam is white settler and Black Canadian, and is the founder and facilitator of the Diverse Voices Roundtable for BIPOC Writers at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society (Calgary). 

Jaspreet Singh’s second collection of poems How to Hold a Pebble is being published this fall by NeWest Press.

The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Writers’ Union of Canada.