A n d r e a T h o m p s o n MFA
Andrea Thompson has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Arc and the White Wall Review and will be featured in the upcoming anthology, Best Canadian Poetry: 2020. In 2005 her spoken word album, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, in 2009 she was the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour and in 2019 her album, Soulorations helped earn her the League of Canadian Poets’ Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Excellence. Andrea has published several academic essays on spoken word and is the author of the novel, Over Our Heads, the collection, Eating the Seed and the chapbook, Evidence. Educator and activist, Andrea currently teaches through the University of Toronto’s continuing studies department, CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) and Workman Arts. She is a member of the Brick Books editorial collective, and a curator of Brick's multimedia hub, Brickyard.
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New Album!
Available on iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music & Spotify
Free sample track now on Soundcloud:
"A Selected History of Soul Speak"
A poem exploring the influence of Black history and culture on contemporary spoken word.
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Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out!
September 1, 2020
In light of the pandemic and shifting schedules, co-editors Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson are extending the deadline for submissions of writing and/or artwork for Volume 2 of Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out!
Click here for more info.
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