Join us Thursday September 23, at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth, as we welcome, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Nathaniel G. Moore, and Jacob Scheier for an evening of fiction and poetry.

Plus we welcome you to participate in the the “3-Minute Book Review” Open Mic contest. Participants will vie for Cash Prizes as determined by arbitrary & unpredictable judges.

Readings Commence at 8:00 pm

Open Mic sign-up at 7:30 pm

Reader Bios

Elisabeth de Mariaffi lives and writes in Toronto, where she is also one of the wild minds behind Toronto Poetry Vendors, a new empire of poem-filled, toonie-operated vending machines housed at indie establishments in the downtown area. Her poetry and fiction have been published lots of places; you can watch for her in forthcoming issues of The New Quarterly, Descant and CV2. Right now she’s working away at both a collection of short stories and a poem-film collaboration.

Nathaniel G. Moore is the assistant editor and books editor for Broken Pencil Magazine. His most recent books are Pastels Are Pretty Much The Polar Opposite of Chalk (DC Books) and Wrong Bar (Tightrope Books).

Jacob Scheier is a poet and journalist recently returned to his hometown of Toronto from an extended stay in Brooklyn, New York. His debut poetry collection, More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press, 2007) won the 2008 Governor General’s Award. The book was also named amongst 2008’s “best in verse” by The Winnipeg Free Press. His poems have appeared in several periodicals in North America, and he recently had a poem published in the anthology, Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man. As well, Jacob is a regular contributor to the Toronto alternative weekly, NOW and the progressive NYC newspaper The Indypendent. Jacob is also the former head editor of existere, York University’s journal of art and literature. He graduated from York in 2008 with an honors BA in Humanities.

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