65. Adventurous Poems & Writing About Others w/ Ellie Sawatzky

Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 7:16 p.m.

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Ellie Sawatzky stops by Andrew\'s virtual studio to chat about her debut full-length poetry collection, None of This Belongs to Me. Andrew learns about writing childcare poems. It\'s a great adventure!

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Ellie Sawatzky (@elliesawatzky) grew up in Kenora, Ontario. A past winner of CV2\\u2019s Foster Poetry Prize, runner up for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize, and a finalist for the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award, her work has been published widely in literary magazines across North America. Her chapbook, Rhinocerotic, was published by Frog Hollow Press in 2018. None of This Belongs to Me is her debut full-length poetry collection, published by Nightwood Editions in October 2021. She is currently an editor for Friesen Press, a member of the Growing Room Collective, and curator of the Instagram account IMPROMPTU (@impromptuprompts), a hub for prompts and literary inspiration. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and a cat named Camus.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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