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SUMMARY:Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Kama La Mackerel\, the poet behind the debut lyric poetry collection ZOM-FAM\, for their cross-continental book tour! In virtual venues from Halifax to Vancouver\, with special guests including Jillian Christmas and jes sachse\, Kama’s My Body Is the Ocean Tour will take place on dates between November 16th and December 2nd\, 2020. Find one that works for you. \nABOUT ZOM-FAM:\nIn their debut poetry collection\, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island\, Mauritius. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling\, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices\, femme tongues\, broken colonial languages and a tender queer subjectivity\, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. \nKAMA LA MACKEREL is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist\, educator\, writer\, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance\, photography\, installations\, textiles\, digital art and literature. Kama’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice\, love\, healing\, decoloniality\, hybridity\, cosmopolitanism and self- and collective-empowerment.\nlamackerel.net\n@KamaLaMackerel \nClosed captioning will be included for most events. Please support the local bookseller hosts by getting a copy of the book through them. Please contact Metonymy Press with any accessibility requests or questions about events.
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SUMMARY:Teen Book Club: Felix Ever After
DESCRIPTION:Join us at la Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for our Teen book club! Our pick of October is FELIX EVER AFTER by Kacen Callender. No older participants\, please. \nThis is a book club for teenagers\, with a median age of 13-16 or grades sec 1-5 — all kids must be in secondary school. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide teenagers a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. \n/////////////////////////////////////// \nVIRTUAL MEETING – VIA ZOOM\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86315097836\nMeeting ID: 863 1509 7836\nPasscode to be posted at a later date. \n/////////////////////////////////////// \nWhere/how do I order this book? Via our online store of course!\nhttp://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq \nWe’re shipping Canada wide and delivering in certain area codes close to the bookstore!\n*By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. Your support is appreciated. \n/////////////////////////////////////// \nFELIX EVER AFTER\nFelix Love has never been in love—and\, yes\, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that\, even though he is proud of his identity\, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black\, queer\, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.\nWhen an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle….\nBut as he navigates his complicated feelings\, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.\nFelix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity\, falling in love\, and recognizing the love you deserve.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/teen-book-club-felix-ever-after/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Out Loud at the Read Quebec Holiday Book Fest
DESCRIPTION:Black Writers Out Loud is a series of QWF events celebrating Black literary arts in Quebec.  \nThis fourth event in the series is co-produced with the AELAQ\, and features Kaie Kellough in conversation with Canisia Lubrin. These two award-winning authors from the worlds of poetry and prose come together to speak on their craft and all matters human. \nThe conversation will take place on November 27\, 2020 at 7 p.m. EST via Zoom. \n  \nPlease CLICK HERE to RSVP and receive the Zoom link via email.\n========================================================== \nFEATURED ARTIST  \nKaie Kellough is a novelist\, poet\, and sound performer. His work emerges at a crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. From western Canada\, he lives in Montréal and has  roots in Guyana\, South America.  \nHis books include Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction\, Véhicule 2020)\, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and recent winner of the QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize\, and Magnetic Equator (poetry\, McClelland and Stewart 2019) winner of  the Griffin Poetry Prize. His novel Accordéon (ARP\, 2016) was a finalist for the Amazon/Walrus  Foundation First Novel Award.   \nKaie’s vocal performance\, recorded audio\, and electronic narrative explore migration and the  suspension of arrival. Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist  and synthesist Jason Sharp.   \nKaie’s work has traveled internationally\, notably to festivals in the UK\, Australia\, Asia\, the Caribbean\, and continental Europe. He continues to craft new passages.  \nPhoto credit: Kevin Calixte  \n  \nHOST  \nCanisia Lubrin is a writer\, critic\, editor\, and teacher whose most recent book is The Dyzgrapxst (McClelland & Stewart\, 2020) as seen in The New York Times\, Quill & Quire\, Jewish Currents\,  Humber Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Lubrin’s international publications include translations of her work into Spanish\, Italian\, French\, and German. Her writing has been recognized by\,  among others\, the Toronto Book Award\, Journey Prize\, Gerald Lampert\, Pat Lowther\, and the  Writers Trust. Her debut\, Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn\, 2017)\, was named a CBC Best Book and her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Room\, Brick\, Joyland\, Poetry London\, Poets.org\, blackiris.co\, and elsewhere. Lubrin’s debut collection of short fiction is forthcoming.  She has an MFA from the University of Guelph.  \nPhoto credit: Samuel Engelking
URL:https://qwf.org/event/bwol-4/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Read Quebec Book Fair,Series,Writers Out Loud
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