Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙

Daniel Cowper and Catherine Lewis seated by Delta Literary Arts Society banner

Catherine Lewis reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS

Daniel Cowper

Host Geneviève Wynand

So honoured to read with @danielcowper.bsky.social for Delta Literary Arts Society’s Pages and Passages series this past November! Big thanks to @genevievewynand.bsky.social for hosting, and to @angelarebrec.bsky.social and her DLAS team for the wonderful hospitality!

Catherine Lewis up at the mic

Group photo of Seventeen-Syllable Slam participants

Such a delight to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Seventeen-Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social this past September!

Always terrific to read alongside such a talented lineup!

Raoul Fernandes and Catherine Lewis standing next to a Richmond Multicultural Community Services banner

Catherine Lewis up at the mic

Raoul Fernandes up at the mic

Event poster

This summer, I was so honoured to read alongside Raoul Fernandes at Richmond Multicultural Community Services’ event The Art of Us: A Multicultural Open Mic!

Event readers and organizing team: Catherine Lewis, Goldbard, Spillious, Ashley Fehr, and Sean McGarragle in front row; Lucia Misch and Andrew Sutherland in back row

Catherine Lewis on stage

I was so honoured to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus show for Pride this past July!✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

Thrilled to share the stage with @ashleyfehr.bsky.social, @goldbard.bsky.social, & @spillious.bsky.social, hosted by Lucia Misch! Big thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!

Catherine Lewis standing by Surrey Muse banner while wearing Pride socks and a black flowered dress

During Pride Month this year, I had the honour of designing and facilitating the Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for members of the LGBTQ+ community, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the organizing team for inviting me to design/facilitate this event! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Samantha Krilow, Angel-Clare Linton, Catherine Lewis, and Kim Brake standing by a Surrey Muse banner

Catherine Lewis reading from The Fiddlehead

Host Angel-Clare Linton

Artist Kim Brake

So honoured to be the featured author at Surrey Muse in May! It was such a delight to read with artist Kim Brake, poet Hari Alluri (virtually), and writer Samantha Krilow, all hosted by Angel-Clare Linton!

Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!

Event Poster for Seventeen Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver on Saturday Sept 20, 2025 at 12:30pm

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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Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

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

Thank you so much, Alison! ✨❤️

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.

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! ✨❤️✨

Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss”

Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss”

Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s bio

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

Event poster for Pride, the Pen & The Page - Writing Workshop for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community

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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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,…

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

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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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Oh my goodness 🥰🥺 thank you!!!

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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! ✨

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

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

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! 💐💐💐💐💐

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!

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!

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Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Prachi Kamble at a café table

A cappuccino on a café counter

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

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

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! ✨❤️✨

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

I love you, Vancouver BlueSky friends.

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

Reading Series

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