CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Sadie McCarney will be the featured reader at the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild open mic on Thursday, Nov. 14, at Receiver Coffee Co., 128 Richmond St., in Charlottetown at 7 p.m.
McCarney’s poetry has appeared in publications, including Literary Review of Canada, The Walrus, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Puritan, The Malahat Review, Plenitude, The Antigonish Review, EVENT and Room, as well as in the anthologies The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2015 and The Best of The Best Canadian Poetry in English.
Poems of hers have been finalists for the Banff Centre/Bliss Carman Poetry Prize, the Far Horizons Award for Poetry, and the Walrus Poetry Prize. Sadie has received writing grants from Innovation PEI and the Canada Council for the Arts.
This fall of 2019, the University of Regina Press published “Live Ones”, her first book.
All are welcome to this free event. The first 10 writers to sign up may read from their work— poetry or prose—for up to five minutes. Following a short break, McCarney will read.
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild open mic series will continue to run on the second Thursday of each month.
