Paige Pierce Book Signing

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Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
12:00 PM

A collection of poetry and prose, "Stomach Aches" discusses a young woman's journey from childhood to adulthood. Including themes such as love, loss, coming-of-age, sexual assault, the patriarchy, and seeing the world change around you, Paige's seventh anthology is her most heartwarming and scathing book yet.
As Youth Poet Laurate, Paige serves as a “young people’s poet”, raising awareness of poetry, the literary arts and the positive impact literature and poetry can have on community life.

ABOUT PAIGE PIERCE

Paige Pierce is an author, pre-service teacher, and university student from Campbell River, BC. Paige moved to Nanaimo two years ago to study at Vancouver Island University, where she is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Education degree. Her dream is to be an English and Social Studies teacher in high schools, where she can share her passion for reading and writing with future generations of students and foster creativity and community in her classrooms.
Throughout her life, Paige has maintained a dedicated and ever-evolving love of literature, spending most of her free time surrounded by books of all genres. In 2018, at the age of 15, Paige self-published her first book: a collection of poetry titled Coloured Ink. Paige continued writing throughout her adolescence and early adulthood, and has now published seven books of poetry, including several Amazon best-sellers.

Her work features discussions on love, growing up, death and grieving, body image, friendship, travel, and feminism, and can be found online anywhere that sells books. When she is not writing, Paige can often be found at the beach, in cafés, or spending time with her friends and family.
Paige’s goal as she moves into the City of Nanaimo’s Youth Poet Laureate role is to develop a community of aspiring and practicing poets to draft, refine, and share their work. She also hopes to host readings and poetry café events to showcase the voices of young writers in Nanaimo. Paige believes that poetry should be accessible to contemporary audiences, and while some may find it intimidating or confusing, there is a style of poetry for everyone. She is very excited to be working with a group of dedicated readers, writers, and community members over the course of her term with the City of Nanaimo.