Wilde about Sappho – Pride Reading at Victoria’s City Hall

By Dana Putnam | June 5, 2022 |

Join City of Victoria Poet Laureate John Barton, local poets and Special Guest Mayor Lisa Helps to celebrate Pride Month in Victoria. Featuring: Ali Blythe, Wendy Donawa, Hiromi Goto, matthew [bettina] heinz, Eli Mushumanski, Shō Yamagushiku Tuesday, June 7, 2022 — 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30pm) City Hall, Antechamber (Masks are…

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One Book One SFU

By Dana Putnam | March 7, 2022 |

In case you missed this, here is a link to the recording. 🙂 Please join us this Wednesday, March 9th at 7pm for an Interactive Livestream via Zoom. (I’ll be on stage with Erica and Sarah!) Tickets via Eventbrite    

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Au Revoir 2021

By Dana Putnam | December 31, 2021 |

Pressure to arrive at some kind of overview of a year’s passage. The close of one thing and entry into another. Then I think of the universe…. What is time? ^__^)/   It was so great to bring Shadow Life out into the world. Thank you, to everyone who has read it and bought it…

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Thank you, New York Public Library

By Dana Putnam | December 4, 2021 |

Super, super excited that #ShadowLife has made the New York Public Library’s Best of 2021 List!! Imagine a young Japanese Canadian tomboy book nerd with serious Bangs living in the 1970s rural Pacific Northwest, reading from The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and A Cricket in Times Square, and dreaming about New York…

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Me and Kyo Maclear @ Calgary WordFest

By Dana Putnam | November 1, 2021 |

Come join me in conversation with dear writing friend, Kyo Maclear and lovely host Shelley Youngblut as we talk about how bodies are represented and seen. Our relationships with these ideas. And soooo much more! Kyo is such a thoughtful thinker, writer, conversationalist. I always walk away from our conversations with so much goodness. Tuesday,…

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Vancouver Writers Festival

By Dana Putnam | October 21, 2021 |

Heading back to Vancouver today for Vancouver Writers Festival! I’m excited to be a part of two panels– a third one “The Human Connection” has been moved entirely online and I’ll update with more info soon. It’s been a long pandemic and it feels good to join writers and readers at a festival.    …

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