On Saturday, July 18, 2026 @ 7pm MST, Anna Elgie host a new online reading series: ‘Cheers to Divorce and the Courage of Fresh Starts.’
There are now 4 readers joining Anna for this event!
*Kelly Kaur
Kelly Kaur visits family and friends in Singapore every year. That is one long trip! She simply loves the Rockies in Calgary where she lives and plays.
She is a writer, author, speaker and an educator. She was awarded the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award, the Calgary South Asian Inspiration’s Outstanding Arts and Culture award, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won Honourable Mention in the International Human Rights Art Movement in New York.
Kaur’s poem, “A Singaporean’s Love Affair,” landed on the moon in 2024 — the first historic library and an Artemis Accords Heritage Site.
Her novel, Letters to Singapore, will go up in 2026.
Kaur has a passion for human rights and is a creative writing instructor and Special Projects Editor for the International Human Rights Art Movement, New York. She has a children’s book, Howdy, I’m Singh Hari that was introduced to and celebrated at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton for honouring Punjabi Sikh culture and was just shortlisted for the 2026 Alberta Book Publishing Awards.
Her creative works have been danced to on stage, displayed on beer cans, at museums and art galleries, placed outdoors at Leighton Art Centre, and is on a permanent display at the Little Museum of Poetry, il Piccolo Museum Della Poesia, Chiesa di S. Cristoforo, in Piacenza, Italy.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.kaur.98
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellykaur3/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-kaur-bedi-51019523/
*Josephine LoRe
Josephine LoRe’s poetry has been read live on stage in Canada, the US, Italy, France, and Ireland as well in Zoomrooms across the world, put to music, danced, and integrated into paintings and visual art.
She has four collections: Unity, and the bestsellers The Cowichan Series, In My Father’s House, and The Moon and All Her Faces.Josephine writes in English, Italian, and French. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in fifteen countries and five languages, and she has been thrice nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Poetry Prize. Her poem The Tea Set was shortlisted for the Room Poetry Prize, and her poem Enough was selected for a multiple prize-winning Public Service Announcement video by Feed The Children in the US, which has been viewed almost a million times.
Josephine has an MA in Comparative Literature from l’Université de Rouen, France, an Honours BA in Languages and Literature from the University of Toronto, and a bilingual BEd from l’Université Laurentienne. She is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, the Association of Italian Canadian Writers, Tesoro, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Calgary’s Alexandra Writers’ Center Society, Haiku Canada, and Tanka Canada.
She teaches poetry workshops in schools through Les Voix de la Poésie / Poetry in Voice, and has presented workshops for adults at When Words Collide, the Wine Country Writers’ Festival, and the People’s Poetry Festival, among others. She mentors emerging writers, has served as judge, and has been asked to provide endorsements for upcoming publications. She is an active Member of the Board of the Single Onion, Calgary’s longest running poetry reading series, and just been named Poet Laureate for Calgary’s Bow Valley Ranche Historical Society.
Her next publication, Late to the Sky, a collaboration with prize-winning poet Charles S. Cobean, will be launched in Canada and across the US in the fall of 2026.
Poetry is her oxygen, her helium.
Please visit her website: http://www.josephinelorepoet.com/
Facebook:facebook is https://www.facebook.com/josephine.lore.7
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/josephinelorepoet/
*Nash Lott
Nash Lott’s poetry can be found in Grain Magazine, The New Quarterly; on George Murray’s newpoetry.ca and Paul Vermeersch’s Ekphrastic site, inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com.
His chapbook, Sheet Music for Controlled Chaos, is upcoming in Gordon Hill Press & Porcupine’s Quill’s new chapbook imprint — mad / sick / different.
Autism intensifies Nash’s relationship with language. He and his writer-wife, Patti, live near the Rockies. When he saves the world, Nash would like a cabin by a lake in the woods—he’s not expecting the cabin anytime soon.
Rea Tarvydas lives and writes fiction in Edmonton, Alberta. Tarvydas’ stories can be found most recently in The New Quarterly, and in assorted anthologies. Work is forthcoming in the WHATEVER Anthology, a collection of Gen-X writing (Dundurn, 2027).
Tarvydas’ first book of interconnected short stories HOW TO PICK UP A MAID IN STATUE SQUARE was published by Thistledown Press (2016).
Tarvydas is the 2012 winner of the Brenda Strathern Award and the ‘Little Bird’ Contest in 2019. She has studied writing at Banff Centre, Humber School for Writers, and, most recently, UCLA (Extension) where she completed a film screenwriting certificate.
Tarvydas’ current projects include a novel, a collection of short stories, and a pilot (on-spec) for TV/streaming service.
Please visit her website www.reatarvydas.com
Instagram: @afuckingwriter
This is an exciting new online reading series and it is not to be missed.
Funding for Anna’s ‘full reading’ (15 minutes) is provided by the Canada Council through the Writers’ Union of Canada.
On January 8, 2026 @ 7pm MST, Anna Elgie will read an excerpt of ‘A Gift for An’ in the online reading series Northwest Passages hosted by The Writers’ Union of Canada.
On December 25, 2025 @ noon MST, Anna Elgie will host an inaugural reading series entitled Once Upon an Estranged Family Christmas. This will include a reading by Elgie of a short story, and a reading by Robert Proudfoot, an author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Elgie gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council through The Writers’ Union of Canada for making this reading possible.
Register here. Note the Zoom link will be made available 30 min prior to the event.
On December 17, 2025 @ 7pm EST, Anna Elgie will read an excerpt of her essay ‘How to Restore a Family Quilt’ for the ‘From Life to Page’ online reading event held by the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society.
Register for the free reading event here.
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