A n d r e a  T h o m p s o n        



Andrea Thompson has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. In 1995 she was featured in the documentary, Slamnation and in 2005 her spoken word CD, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award. She was the 2009 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour, was host of the television series, Heart of a Poet, and is author of the novel Over Our Heads. Thompson has written numerous critical essays on spoken word and is currently teaching through the University of Toronto’s continuing studies. In 2019, she released her CD, Soulorations and later that year won the League of Canadian Poets’ Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Excellence.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! 

In celebration of the anniversary of our cricially acclaimed anthology: OTHER TONGUES Mixed-Race Women Speak Out, I am thrilled to announce that Adebe DeRango-Adem and I are now in the early stages of creating a follow-up with Other Tongues Volume 2!

Here's the short version of our call for submissions. Please click here or see the tab above for more info.

OTHER TONGUES Volume 2: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out

Co-editors Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson are seeking submissions of writing and/or artwork for a follow-up anthology of work by and about mixed-race women, intended for publication by Inanna Publications in 2020-21.

Deadline for Submissions: JANUARY 15, 2020



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