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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Dia Davina
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IGNITE: Pride Open Mic Night featuring Dia Davina. (2014, September 7). Retrieved October 16, 2015, from http://rainbowservice.org/event/ignite-pride-open-mic-night-featuring-dia-davina/</ref> Davina describes that their poetry attempts to "bring honesty, and vulnerability and truth
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===Awards and Recognition===

Davina won 4th place at the 2014 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,<ref name="afterellen"/> first place at the 
2013 Annual Queer Poetry Slam at Café Deux Soleils, first place at the 2014 UVic Diversity Writing Contest – Spoken Word category 2014 <ref>
UVic Diversity Writing Contest. (n.d.). Retrieved October 16, 2015, from https://www.uvic.ca/library/featured/events/writingcontest/2014/index.php</ref> and third place at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam Playoffs.<ref name="afterellen"/>

“"Dia Davina is a poet who is able to stare in to the dark corners of our hearts and find the light. Dia can make us squirm with their words in the best ways possible and then offer release with a tear or a laugh. Plus they’re just a lot of fun to watch on stage!”" -RC Weslowski, 2012 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, 2 time World Cup of Poetry Slam Finalist <ref>
CapSlam Back at the Merc! Feat. Dia Davina! (2014, November 6). Retrieved October 16, 2015.</ref> see: [[Canadian Festival of Spoken Word]]

==References==
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[[Category:21st-century Canadian poets]]
[[Category:Canadian spoken word poets]]
[[Category:LGBT writers from Canada]]
[[Category:Genderqueer people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Writers from Vancouver]]
[[Category:1987 births]]
[[Category:Slam poets]]
[[Category:LGBT poets]]