Please join us for an evening of readings and the launch of 6 new chapbooks:
Thursday November 3 at The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor – [map]
Doors at 7:30 p.m. - Readings from 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Jim Johnstone
Baseline Press – Danielle Devereaux, Andy McGuire and Christine Walde
Cactus Press – Greg Bell, Stewart Cole and Shane Neilson
Bios:
Greg Bell lives and works in Kingston, Ontario with his wife Jacqueline and two sons. He has recently been pubished in/on Encore Literary Magazine, The Puritan, Eyewear, Rhythm Poetry Magazine, and Misundertandings Magazine.
Stewart Cole’s (Toronto, Ont.) poems, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prism International, Books in Canada, Quill and Quire, Studies in Canadian Literature, and the Mansfield Press anthology Rogue Stimulus. He is a doctoral candidate and course instructor at the University of Toronto. The poems in this chapbook are selected from his full-length manuscript, Questions in Bed.
Danielle Devereaux (St. John’s, Nfld.) has been published in Riddle Fence, Arc, The Fiddlehead, QuArc, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 (Tightrope Books). An alumnus of the Banff Writing Studio, her poetry manuscript-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2009 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers.
Andy McGuire (Waterloo, Ont.) is a singer-songwriter and has released two records, Moult (2010) and Body of Work (2011). His poems have been anthologized in Possessions: The Eldon House Poems (Poetry London) and have appeared in CV2. www.andymcguire.ca
Shane Neilson (Guelph, Ont.)
Christine Walde (London, Ont.) is the author of the novel, The Candy Darlings (Penguin Canada and Houghton Mifflin). A second novel, Burning Down Tiger Mountain, is forthcoming. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Vallum, Carousel, Plath Profiles, Descant, Quill and Quire, and The Globe and Mail.
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