Starts at 7:00 at the North of Ordinary Experience Centre.
By donation.
Sign up for the open mic at the door.

Kirsten Madsen is a writer based in Whitehorse, Yukon. She was runner-up for the 2015 CBC Short Story Prize, and her fiction has been published in The Walrus, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly and elsewhere. She was a finalist in both the Malahat Review and The New Quarterly fiction awards in 2017, and the Writers’ Union of Canada short story competition in 2011 and 2015. Kirsten has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, where her thesis novel, The Cantilevered Universe, was shortlisted for the 2013 HarperCollins Canada / UBC Prize for Best New Fiction.

Kirsten Madsen. Photo by Gary Bremner

Brave New Words is a night of sharing for writers and storytellers from all genres to challenge themselves to create and to perform their work.

At each Brave New Words, we feature a writer who joins us off the top and again towards the end of the evening.

We also encourage musicians to perform their song in the open mic portion of the evening, with the focus on song-writing - this a great chance to play for crowd that cares about words.

Jacob Zimmer and Susanne Hinlgey will share hosting for the events, and hope to encourage a larger writing/reading community to the event.

We look forward to seeing you.