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Tuesday March 19: What I LOVE About Being QUEER Vancouver Launch
Vivek Shraya and Our City of Colours present: What I LOVE about being QUEER, and Other Stories. Join Our City Of Colours for the Vancouver book launch of “What I LOVE about being QUEER” by...
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Amber Dawn interviewed by Leah Horlick
Poet Leah Horlick interviewed me for RADAR Productions: Amber Dawn came to my house for an interview one rainy February afternoon during the last term of my MFA in Vancouver. “It’s so weird to be...
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Monday March 25 – UBC Launch
Join award-winning writer, filmmaker, and performance artist Amber Dawn for a reading from her new book How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013). A Q&A and reception...
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Georgia Straight review (March 28, 2013)
Amber Dawn’s How Poetry Saved My Life shows fierce resolve by David Chau on Mar 28, 2013 at 3:00 am How Poetry Saved My Life By Amber Dawn. Arsenal Pulp, 160 pp, softcover On the opening page of How...
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LPG’s Coast-to-Coast Poetry Project highlights How Poetry Saved My Life...
Poem 4: How Poetry Saved My Life (and could save yours!) Although poem 4 of our Coast-to-Coast Poetry Project keeps us on the west coast, it takes us far from the quiet, isolated islands to the...
View ArticleTulia Thompson’s review (April 2013)
Tulia Thompson‘s review (April 2013) Ghost Stories: A Review of Amber Dawn’s ‘How Poetry Saved My LIfe’ Amber Dawn spoke at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC...
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Vancouver Sun review (April 12, 2013)
Poetic reflection exposes a dark side Former sex worker tells her intriguing tale in three sections: Outside, Inside and Inward By Brett Josef Grubisic, Special to The SunApril 19, 2013true ‘Survival...
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Amber Dawn’s Memoir, “How Poetry Saved My Life”: The Autostraddle Interview Ali Posted byAli on April 23, 2013 Amber Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa, the smash-hit novel of ghosts, magic and...
View ArticleCanada Arts Connect interview (May 9, 2013)
Poetry Saves Lives: A conversation with Amber Dawn posted by Dina Del Bucchia | May 9, 2013 | In Featured, Literature HowPoetrySaved-400How Poetry Saved My Life is a memoir, a call to action and a...
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Amber Dawn reads from and discusses her new book, “How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir” *Joined by Special Guest Sinclair Sexsmith* Wednesday, May 22nd: 7PM Modern Times Bookstore Collective...
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May 23 & 24: San Francisco Sex Workers’ Fest!
Amber Dawn joins a line up of outstanding authors, artists and activists at the 8th San Francisco Sex Workers Film and Arts Festival.
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Globe and Mail review (May 2013)
For The Globe and Mail Amber Dawn’s new memoir a subtly pitched call to arms JIM BARTLEY Published Friday, May. 24, 2013 10:00AM EDT Amber Dawn takes her dog for a walk through the Lower Seymour...
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June 6: Seattle reading with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
In 2003, Amber Dawn and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore read together at a strip club in Vancouver. Now, 10 years later, they reunite for a reading in an auditorium at an STD clinic in Seattle. Do you...
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Heather Cromarty’s Review (June 2013)
Heather Cromarty on How Poetry Saved My Life by Genevieve on Jun 8, 2013 • 10:42 am No Comments Review by Heather Cromarty TO WRITE Given the task of writing a lecture on women and fiction in 1928,...
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I *heart* subTerrain #64 (on newstands Summer 2013)
#64 on newsstands now! By subTerrain #64 (HEAT) features commentary by Peter Babiak, new fiction from Grant Buday, Caroline Szpak, Evie Christie, Stephanie Dickinson, Tamara Faith Berger, and Bonnie...
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Friday July 26, 6-8:30 PM and Saturday July 27, 2-4:30 PM: Free Memoir...
Tough Language & Tender Wisdoms: with Amber Dawn Organizer: Pride in Art Society Venue: Roundhouse, Room C 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 2V5 A Memoir Writing Workshop for...
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