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Head On: A Poetry Reading with Kathy Mac

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Calendar:
Member event

Room 301 (3rd floor)

HEAD ON: A Poetry Reading with Kathy Mac

Open set to follow, with a sign-up sheet for 3- to 5- minute readings circulated before the reading.

For more info: kathymac@stu.ca

I can’t wait to see you all!

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Kathy Mac (she/her) has published three books of poetry (Roseway Publishing), two books on the craft of writing (Wording Around Press), and, as Dr. Kathleen McConnell, a book of essays (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers). Her work has been a finalist for several national and regional awards (eg. the GG for Poetry, the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize), and even won some (eg. The Gerald Lampert Award). Mac lives in Nme’kaqnuk (Sambro Head) near Halifax in the unceded traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples.

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  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
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