Tree Reading Series – Secretary (former)
Bywords – reader (former)
Bywords is a online Ottawa poetry journal which has become the beating heart of the community in Ottawa. It started as a physical journal many years ago but when threatened with coming to an unfortunate end Amanda Earl kept it alive with a Herculean effort and has been running it since.
VII – member of the collective
VII is seven voices fused into one exquisite corpse: Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, nina jane drystek, Chris Johnson, Margo LaPierre and Helen Robertson. Based on the belief that seven minds are better than one and that many ideas make joyous chorus, we say: We are I and I is VII. Formed in March 2020, VII is based in Ottawa, Ontario, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg First Nation. We have published two chapbooks: Towers with Collusion Books and Holy Disorder of Being with Gap Riot Press.