Shannon Laws

Shannon P. Laws, born Seattle WA, lives ninety miles north in Bellingham where she was honored with a Mayor’s Arts Award in 2013 for coordination of various poetry events and 2016 in recognition for her LP radio production work promoting northwest artists. She received the Community Champion Award, 2015, courtesy of the Writer’s International Network in Richmond, B.C., Canada for collaboration with World Peace Poets. Shannon’s publications include three poetry books, Fallen, Madrona Grove, a chapbook Odd Little Things, and an audiobook of select poetry “You Love Me, You Love Me Not.” Her poetry has appeared in Clover-A Literary Rag, Salmon Creek Journal (WA), LEVITATE Literary Magazine (IL), Five Willows Literary Review (WA), From Bellingham With Love, VerseWrights, Noisy Water: Poetry from Whatcom County, Washington, and Last Call: An Anthology of Beer, Wine & Spirits Poetry. Poems have appeared online at WritingRaw.com, TweetSpeak, and Lamentforthe-Dead.org. The poem “Lights Tonight,” was an Honorable Mention for the Women’s March on Bellingham January 21, 2017. Shannon has performed at various Northwest Washington and British Columbia venus including the Jack McCarthy Evergreen Invitational Slam, Western Washington University’s Erotic Poetry Night, the West Coast Tagore Festival, Writers International Network Canada, Everett Poetry Night, Auburn Days, Poets in the Park (Redmond), Book Tree (Kirkland), King’s Books (Tacoma), San Juan Island Public Library, Bellingham venues including Village Books Literature LIVE, Greene’s Corner, Poetry Night, The Alternative Library, Creekside Open Mic, and Kitchen Sessions. Shannon worked as a contributing poet for the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater with the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company’s “Phrasings” collaboration and Adirondack Center for Writing’s “PoemVillage” in New York. She is also a co-founding member of World Peace Poets Bellingham (2013-2015), and the Poem Booth (2017-2018). In 2019 Shannon launched a voice-over acting business Chickadee Productions. Hear DEMOs at her Soundcloud site. https://soundcloud.com/user-955552369 From 2011 to 2018 Shannon was a volunteer radio producer and host for three radio programs that broadcasted from non-profit, community stations: SPARK Radio 102.3 FM (Spark Museum of Electrical Invention), KZAX Make.Shift Radio 94.9 (Make.Shift Art Space), and KPNW Digital Radio. Learn more and LISTEN to her top ten programs HERE: https://shannonplawswriter.com/radio/ For more information please visit http://shannonplawswriter.com/