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Laurie MacFayden
Award-winning writer and visual artist based in Edmonton, Alberta

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ransom fizz hullabaloo

Posted on 11 November 201624 November 2017by LaurieMacFayden

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‘That Laurie MacFayden, she’s a howler’

Posted on 12 May 201524 November 2017by LaurieMacFayden

Lovely review of Kissing Keeps Us Afloat from Michael Dennis over at Today’s Book of Poetry. And when I say lovely, I mean fan-fucking-tastic. Some highlights: kissing keeps us afloat is a sustained torrent, a laughing rush, a relentless scream/yodel of passion. This red boat has no oars as it crashes against the shores of love, breaks […]

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12 words

Posted on 6 February 201524 November 2017by LaurieMacFayden

her holy hands scorch me that effervescent grin the laugh that went into the candle wax those splashing eyes her fingers a myriad of vowels, of consonants that eclectic thing she does when she breathes me in her winsome writing dress introspection is where she stepped onto the bus murmuration is where she got off […]

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Get your lust on

Posted on 4 February 201124 November 2017by Laurie MacFayden

This ain’t no namby-pamby cinnamon hearts & chocolate flowers couples fest. This is Gypsy Valentine, an afternoon of smokin’ hot verse and bohemian music at Leva Cafe on Sunday, Feb. 13. Edmonton poets Mandie Lopatka, Kelly Shepherd and Amy Willans and I will start the fire, accompanied by the smouldering violin of Karen Donaldson Shepherd […]

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About Me

I’m an award-winning writer, visual artist and journalist who has lived in Edmonton since 1984. My writing has appeared in The New Quarterly, FreeFall, Queering the Way and Alberta Views. My short story, Haircut, won the Howard O’Hagan prize at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards. My work has been performed in Edmonton’s Loud & Queer Cabaret, the Skirts Afire Festival, and Calgary’s Q the Arts cultural festival. My latest book, Walking Through Turquoise (Frontenac House, September 2017), continues to explore the flirtations and secrets mined in my first two titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat.

Visual arts exhibition highlights include Fighting Normal, a multi-discipline installation with Amy Willans exploring the stigma of mental illness (Winter 2013, Visual Arts Alberta Gallery; September, 2019, St Albert Library) and The Poetry of Water (August 2012; solo exhibition, Kaasa Gallery, Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton). My paintings have shown in other public spaces in Edmonton including Harcourt House; the Gallery at Milner; Woodcroft Library, Walterdale Playhouse; Enterprise Square; Blue Plate Diner; Grant MacEwan Gray Gallery; and Bohemia Cafe.

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  • The Sky Is Pink At The End Of The World
  • White, Interrupted
  • Cloud Envy

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