Charlie Petch

Charlie Petch is a non-binary Canadian writer and performer from Toronto, Ontario, whose poetry collection Why I Was Late was the winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2022.

Work Principally a poet of spoken word, Petch was the founder of Hot Damn It's a Queer Slam and was Spoken Word Canada's poet of honour in 2017. They have also written and performed a number of theatrical plays, most notably Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum's Rush. It won the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry.

Awards

Honors

2017 Spoken Word Canada's poet of honour

Literary

Bibliogr

Poetry collection

Why I Was Late (2021)