Summer Events

Royal City Literary Arts Society presents
POETRY IN THE PARK 2026
In partnership with Arts New West and City of New Westminster
Every Wednesday night from July 15 – August 19 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Each weekly session will feature 2 poets and an Open Mic.
Wednesday AUGUST 5
SAPP Zine Night
Feature Poets: Jordan Redekop-Jones & KJ Brydle
Host: Jessica Lee McMillan

Where? Centennial Lodge, Queen’s Park, New Westminster

When? Wed evenings JULY 15-AUGUST 19 | 6:30pm | Open Mic Sign Up 6:15pm

Why? Because poetry is alive and well in New West!

FREE, FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT
Everyone is welcome!

KJ Brydle (she/they) is a BFA student in UBC’s Creative Writing program. They are drawn to writing about the summoning echo of estrangement and moments that sparkle, shimmer, or make one shake. They are Red River Métis and Ukrainian settler blessed to be living on Coast Salish land.

Jordan Redekop-Jones is a mixed Indigenous/ Anglo Indian writer from Vancouver BC. She is the winner of several awards including the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize, the 2024 Austin Clarke prize in Literary Excellence for poetry and was a recipient of a 2024 Indigenous Voices Award in the unpublished poetry category. Her work has appeared in publications including Prism International, Arc Poetry, the Ex-Puritan, Rungh, SAD Mag and more.
Her debut chapbook Hybridity as a Phantom Body was just recently published by Anstruther Press. She is a graduate of SFU’s the Writer’s Studio and is a current MA English Literature student at Simon Fraser University.

You can follow her writing journey on her Instagram page: @j.r.jones__

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Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and steadfast civil servant. She has an English MA (SFU), is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio, and is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets. Read her current/forthcoming poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, New Poetry, QWERTY, Canto, and Canadian Literature. Jessica is the author of the chapbook shine like a dime in the dirt under the moon (Pinhole Poetry, 2026). She lives on the land of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples (New Westminster, BC) with her little family and large dog.

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