Speaking Crow: August 2020 Virtual Edition featuring Sarah Ens

Welcome to Speaking Crow the Virtual Edition! Just as before, we will be meeting the first Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm, this time via ZOOM.

We have two registration options:

1)Register to be part of an enthusiastic Speaking Crow audience, and receive a ZOOM link to attend.

2)Register to be one of the open mic readers, and receive a ZOOM link to attend. Limit 25, first-come-first-served.

Registration for both options will remain open until 7:15pm (only register for one or the other, not both).

If you should have any questions regarding the event please send an email to: speakingcrow@thinairwinnipeg.ca

Speaking Crow is funded and facilitated by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival (WIWF) which is committed to creating safe and respectful opportunities for writers, volunteers, audience members, and workers to share knowledge, explore ideas, and build community.

Featured Guest

Sarah Ens is a Manitoba writer and editor currently completing her MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan (Treaty 6 Territory). Her writing has appeared in literary journals such as Prairie Fire, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Poetry Is Dead. In 2019, she won The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and placed second in Contemporary Verse 2’s 2-Day Poem Contest. She also won first place in Room Magazine’s Short Forms Contest in 2018. Her debut collection of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky, came out this spring with Turnstone Press.

Polish up your new poems for your 3 minutes of fame at the open mic which will happen immediately after our featured guest!

*Please note, only the feature reader will be recorded and posted online.