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the seven sacred ways of healing
jaye simpson
/let it out/
faster than i can breathe,
my eyes strained, they
/you will never get to ask why/
/let it out/
intergenerational trauma
of pain kept in my body.
/tell them what they did/
/let it out/
my arms, Zhigaag takes
our screams synchronizing,
/they will know what it meant/
jaye is a libra sun, sagittarius rising, scorpio moon. jaye is a displaced indigenous person living, creating & occupying on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories. they are a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series, a collaborative series between
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2021 Judge: Jenny Heijun Wills
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of “Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.” It won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Prize. It was a 2019 Globe & Mail Best Book and a 2019 CBC Best in Canadian Non-Fiction Book. She is Chancellor’s Research Chair at the University of Winnipeg where she also teaches in the English Department. She is writing a novel.