Let’s Get Intimate

Whether it be the foundation for friendship or love, intimacy plays a key role in queer writing. For this year’s Word Vancouver Pride event, join three queer authors as they read from their works, discuss how they approach intimacy in their writing, and what they wish for their work to achieve in regards to exploring intimacy.

Host: David Ly

Readers: Justin Ducharme, co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019), Adèle Barclay, Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions, 2019), and Tin Lorica, Soft Armour (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2020)

About The Authors

Tin Lorica is a comedian and poet based in Vancouver, BC. They are the co-host of two shows, Millennial Line, a live comedy and poetry series, and Yellow Fever: An All-Asian Comedy Show. They have published Soft Armour, a poetry chapbook with Rahila’s Ghost Press in November 2020. Tin has also been featured at Just for Laughs Vancouver for their stand-up comedy, and has been featured on JFL Originals' "Stand-up BC: Grossly Underfunded Circus" comedy compilation album that was released in November 2021. You can find Tin @selfiemixtape on Instagram and Twitter, and at tinlorica.com

Justin Ducharme is a filmmaker, writer, dancer and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He is the writer/director of four short films and is currently in development on his first feature film. Justin was the recipient of TIFF's Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 Filmmaker Lab. Justin’s curatorial efforts have been seen at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, SUM gallery, and grunt gallery’s community art screen. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Room Magazine and Prism International Magazine. He currently lives and works on Unceded Coast Salish Territory.

Adèle Barclay’s (she/they) poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Walrus, The Tyee, The Malahat Review, glitterMOB, PRISM, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award and The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry. Their debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Renaissance Normcore was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award and placed third for the 2020 Fred Cogswell Award. They teach literature and writing at Capilano University.

About The Host

Photo Credit: Joy Gyamfi

David Ly is the author of Mythical Man, which was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award, and Dream of Me as Water, both published under the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). David's poems have appeared in publications such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, PRISM International, and The Puritan, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. David is the Poetry Editor at This Magazine.