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About the Author
Brennan Kenneth Brown is a 29-year-old Queer Métis poet, essayist, and university undergraduate. In the past, he has worked as a hospice cook, content strategist, and FOSS web developer. Brown was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and currently resides in Calgary, Alberta. He has previously written for Beeminder, the Writing Co-operative, and data science publications. Brown is also the founder of Write Club at Mount Royal University, a creative writing collective dedicated to building good community around local storytelling and fostering voice and identity.
For more information or to get in touch: editor@writeclub.ca | bkpoetry.com
Publications
PRAIRIE BOYSPIRIT: An NDN Memoir (2024)
Paperback • 50 pages • ISBN: 979-8303372290
Rating: ⭐ 5.0/5 (1 rating)
A Queer Métis writer bleeds truth onto the page, confronting addiction, white-passingness, and cultural displacement while burning sage from crystal shops and praying to a God that’s equal parts Catholic guilt and Cree cosmology. In this debut collection of linked essays, Brown maps the invisible territories where Indigenous and settler identities collide and coalesce, where ceremony bleeds into survival, and where the wild refuses to be forgotten. Through lyric prose cutting as deep as prairie frost, Brown chronicles his journey as a Queer Métis man navigating urban landscapes and ancestral memories.
On the Fringe: A Collection of Community (2025)
Paperback • 267 pages • ISBN: 979-8319240255
Author: Felix Da Costa Gomez • Foreword by: Brennan Kenneth Brown
Contributors: 6 more • Cover Design: Mazi Jade
“A Collection of Community” brings together the voices of Mount Royal University’s Write Club in a powerful exploration of tradition, companionship, and vision. This anthology showcases over twenty emerging writers who gathered weekly within a clubhouse to share their most vulnerable truths and forge a community that transcends the ordinary boundaries of academic life. From poetry on marginalization to intimate reflections on friendship, from experimental fiction to heartfelt personal essays, these pieces invite readers into a space where vulnerability becomes strength.
The Reaper and Her Sickle (2024)
Paperback • 252 pages • ISBN: 979-8387237157
A raw, unfiltered glimpse into the creative process of emerging poet Brennan Kenneth Brown. This compendium collects three years of unpublished writings, discarded drafts, and experimental verses from Brown’s undergraduate journey at Mount Royal University. Unlike Brown’s previous works, this collection lacks a cohesive theme. Instead, it offers a view of a poet finding his voice. Brown preserves these pieces in their original, unedited form—awkward rhythms, half-formed metaphors, unfinished characters and all. A meditation on the act of writing itself, on first drafts and beautiful failures.
Your Brothers Keeper: A Love Letter to Dostoevsky (2024)
Paperback • 40 pages • ISBN: 979-8334888722
What does a 19th-century Russian novel have to do with today? In “Your Brothers Keeper,” a young poet finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Fyodor Dostoevsky. The collection of poems in this chapbook are part love letter, part wrestling match with one of the greatest novels of all time, The Brothers Karamazov. From the sterile halls of a children’s hospice to the snowy streets of St. Petersburg, these poems grapple with faith, doubt, and the messiness of being human. You’ll find Queer retellings of Dostoevsky’s characters, decolonial perspectives on Russian literature, and quiet moments of grace amidst suffering.
On the Fringe: A Collection of Filth (2024)
Paperback • 100 pages • ISBN: 979-8884162167
Rating: ⭐ 4.8/5 (6 ratings)
Author: Danaë Webb • Foreword by: Brennan Kenneth Brown
Contributors: Write Club & 7 more
A daring anthology written by Mount Royal University’s Write Club—a foray into difficult and untamed territories of human experience. Through murky waters of controversy, On the Fringe explores the very boundaries that most fear to tread—sex, death, crime. Both shocking and profound, this anthology questions the norms, rejects the banal, and offers a rare glimpse into what lies beneath the surface of decorum. From musings on chronic illness to vivid depictions of Queer joy, from the grim realities of suffering to riotous celebrations of the political fringe.
The Weight of Yr Heart: Love Poetry for Connie Yu (2023)
Paperback • 54 pages • ISBN: 979-8872139089
Rating: ⭐ 5.0/5 (1 rating)
A collection of thirty-seven love poems centered around a transcendental love for his partner Connie. This chapbook examines the tender complexities of relationships through surreal imagery and vulnerability. Brown’s spare yet resonant verses chart the topography of devotion—moments of joy, desire, doubt, comfort, and more. These love letters are steeped in symbolism, weaving themes of fate, gravity, and more. The Weight of Yr Heart is a melodic, bittersweet ode made all the more poignant for its ephemerality—love as butterfly wings, gossamer yet heavy with meaning.
Holy Waterfall: 16 New & Selected Poems (2023)
Paperback • 40 pages • ISBN: 979-8386930387
This debut chapbook is a series of confessional poetry and outsider art, the culmination of the poet’s ten years of effort to explore his Indigenous identity, religious beliefs, traumatic past, family, love, and all of the uncomfortable and undiscovered feelings in between. Brown faithfully directs our journey by representing his heroic battle with the psychological intertwining of his ancestry and his own universal experiences—all of which form his unique identity as a young Queer Métis poet. A Gospel of poetry and art, Holy Waterfall works as a reflection of the poet’s soul, a way to cleanse and renew the spirit.
THE DOGWOOD VERSES: Selected Writings 2011-2021 (2021)
Paperback • 587 pages • ISBN: 979-8468498743
Rating: ⭐ 4.8/5
Foreword by: Yaishal Aslam
For the past ten years, debut author and lifelong poet Brennan Kenneth Brown has carefully and, in secret, been crafting THE DOGWOOD VERSES. This anthology of poetry has over 300 different individual works, including selected prose and essays, and is comprised of four smaller books written over the past decade: The Juvenila (2011 — 2013), The Hyacinth Boy (2014 — 2017), The Pine Chapter (2018 — 2020), and The Last Call (2020 — 2021). An inevitable cocktail of nostalgia, regret and love—those long, difficult nights when sentimentality took over any common sense. It is a slow-burn meditation on everything vital, everything that’s keeping the author alive.
Selected Essays & Prose: Writings, 2011 — 2021 (2021)
Paperback • 146 pages • ISBN: 979-8750233588
For over the past ten years, debut Canadian author Brennan Kenneth Brown has been an avid reader and writer. As an outsider of academia and formal writing, and taking influence from Chinese philosophers such as Lin Yutang and his book, “The Importance of Living,” Brown takes a contemporary lens to the meaningfulness of everyday life, and what it means to be a good person in the 21st century. This book is a personal journey of lifelong learning, sharing resources, creating things, and trying to be better.
About Write Club
Mount Royal University’s Write Club is a Creative Writing Club dedicated to nurturing the literary talents of Calgary, Alberta in a safe and inclusive environment. Whether you’re an experienced writer or a beginner embarking on your creative journey, the club offers a supportive space to hone your craft, share your work, and connect with like-minded individuals.
Learn more: writeclub.ca | Instagram: @writeclubmru
