Metaphorically Speaking with Andrea Thompson

Join Wordstorm on Feb. 23rd when Andrea Thompson features at our online reading/performance, interview and open mic event!

On Feb, 23rd, Andrea will be sharing from one of her latest publications, A Selected History of Soul Speak.

Register below for this free event. The Zoom link will be sent to you once you have registered.

To sign-up to share your own work at the open mic, email: wordstormsociety@gmail.com

About Andrea Thompson:

Andrea Thompson is a writer, editor, educator and spoken word artist who has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. Thompson was featured in the award-winning documentary, Slamnation as a member of Canada’s first national slam team, she was host of the critically acclaimed Bravo TV series, Heart of a Poet, and was the 2009  Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour. In 2005 her spoken word album, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, in 2019 her album, Soulorations, earned her a Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, and in 2021 she was the recipient of the Leon E. & Ann M.  Pavlick Poetry Prize. A graduate of the University of Guelph’s MFA  Creative Writing program, Thompson is the author of numerous critical  essays on spoken word, as well as a co-editor of Other Tongues:  Mixed-Race Women Speak Out, and the author of the novel Over Our Heads. Thompson currently teaches spoken word poetry through the University of  Toronto’s Department of English & Drama. She is an editor at Brick  Books and has served as both a curator and the Artistic Director of  Brick's online spoken word showcase, Brickyard. Thompson's work was  featured in the anthology, Best Canadian Poetry: 2020 and her  collection, A Selected History of Soul Speak (Frontenac House, Quartet  2021) was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative  poetry, and was longlisted for both the Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster  awards.