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SUMMARY:Montreal Review of Books—Fall 2022 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Part of the 2022 Holiday Book FairFree\, no registration requiredIn person and live-streamed (see below for details) \n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch of the Fall Issue of the Montreal Review of Books\, with readings by featured authors Alexei Perry Cox (PLACE)\, Neil Smith (Jones)\, and Toula Drimonis (We\, the Others). Hosted by Montreal Review of Books editor Malcolm Fraser. \n\n\n\nIn-person event details\n\n\n\nSpace is limited; first come\, first seated. In accordance with public health guidelines\, mask wearing for in-person events is optional\, though encouraged. Ursa MTL is at garden-level and have a small set of stairs leading into the venue. They unfortunately do not have a ramp\, but we are happy to help accommodate folks to the best of our ability. Please let us know if you require assistance with the stairs. Doors will open at 6:30 pm.  \n\n\n\nLive streaming details\n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed to our YouTube account\, no prior registration is required. Tune in at 7 pm on November 2\, 2022\, to view and participate in the Q&A via the chat function.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nExplore other 2022 Holiday Book Fair events here\, and discover more English-language books written\, published\, or translated in Quebec at ReadQuebec.ca. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you on November 2nd! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist\, writer and news producer. A former news director for TC Media\, she has reported and written on politics\, social justice\, and women’s issues for national and international publications. She has worked in television\, radio\, and print in all three of her languages\, and has appeared on TV as both panelist and contributor to English and French-language current-affairs and cultural news shows. \n\n\n\nAlexei Perry Cox is a writer and teacher and organizer. She is the author of Night 3 | اليوم الرابع (Centre for Expanded Poetics)\, Re:Evolution (Gap Riot Press)\, Finding Places to Make Places (Vallum)\, as well as the full length collection Under Her (Insomniac Press). PLACE is now out from Noemi Press. Her poetry and criticism has graced the pages of a wide variety of publications\, including  Jouranl Safar (جورنال سفر)\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, Moko Magazine\, Carte Blanche and The Georgia Review. At the core of her makings is the belief that we imagine relationally\, sometimes with words and sometimes with graze.  \n\n\n\nNeil Smith is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo\, published in 2015\, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award\, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book\, the short story collection Bang Crunch\, in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail\, won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith also works as a translator\, from French to English. The Goddess of Fireflies\, his translation of Geneviève Pettersen’s novel La déesse des mouches à feu\, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for translation. \n\n\n\nThank you to our generous funders\, partners\, and sponsors!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/montreal-review-of-books-fall-2022-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Ursa Montreal\, 5589 Park Avenue\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4S8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
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SUMMARY:Atwater Poetry Project: Holiday Book Fair Special Edition
DESCRIPTION:Part of the 2022 Holiday Book FairFree\, no registration requiredIn person and live-streamed (see details below) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us for a special edition of the Atwater Poetry Project series\, in the Adair Auditorium of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. This evening of new writing will feature poets Prathna Lor (Emanations)\, River Halen (Dream Rooms)\, and Trynne Delaney (the half-drowned)\, with readings moderated by APP curator\, Faith Paré. \n\n\n\nIn-person event details\n\n\n\nSpace is limited; first come\, first seated. In accordance with public health guidelines\, mask wearing for in-person events is optional\, though encouraged. The Atwater Library and Adair Auditorium are accessible by elevator. Be sure to use the entrance on 4023 Tupper Street\, around the corner from Atwater Avenue. For elevator access\, use the accessible entrance in the alley off Tupper.    \n\n\n\nLive streaming details\n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed to our YouTube account\, no prior registration is required. Tune in at 7 pm on November 3\, 2022\, to view and participate in the Q&A via the chat function.  \n\n\n\nExplore other 2022 Holiday Book Fair events here\, and discover more English-language books written\, published\, or translated in Quebec at ReadQuebec.ca. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRiver Halen is an award-winning\, transgender writer of Catalan and Danish descent living in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their poems and essays dealing with relation\, ecology\, transformation\, and sexuality have been published widely in Canada\, as well as in the U.S.\, Australia\, and in translation in Japan. Their first book\, Match\, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, and their most recent book\, Dream Rooms\, a collection of essays and poems\, includes works selected for Best Canadian Essays and was praised by the Bay Area Reporter as “unique and mesmerizing.” Visit their website\, Facebook\, or Instagram. \n\n\n\nPart essay\, part poem\, part fever dream journal entry\, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution\, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans\, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life\, hidden in plain view\, hungry for address—what it means to take a stranger’s pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating extinctions\, to lose your clothes to a moth infestation then buy a duvet made of fossil fuels\, to learn your bookshelf is full of work written by rapists and rape apologists\, to consider a birth control device as a narrative about bodies and their possibilities\, then pull the string. Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its thinking\, Dream Rooms invites readers to that place in consciousness where fear and desire\, hidden information and common knowledge brush up against each other and are mutually transformed. \n\n\n\nTrynne Delaney is a writer currently based in Tiohtiàh:ke (Montreal). They hold a Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Their work appears in The Puritan\, CV2\, Carte Blanche\, GUTS\, WATCH YOUR HEAD\, and the League of Canadian Poets’ chapbook These Lands: a collection of voices by Black Poets in Canada\, edited by Chelene Knight. They grew up in the Maritimes. the half-drowned\, a poetic novella\, was published by Metatron Press in spring 2022. Visit their website\, and Twitter. \n\n\n\nthe half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire\, Delaney builds a glittering\, speculative world where community holds through grief\, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard.  \n\n\n\nPrathna Lor is a poet\, essayist\, editor and educator\, who has published in Canadian Literature\, DIAGRAM\, C Magazine\, Jacket2\, Poetry is Dead and Plenitude Magazine\, among others. Lor is Poetry Editor at Shrapnel Magazine and holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. They live in Montreal\, QC. Visit their website. \n\n\n\nEmanations (Wolsak & Wynn 2022) is a meditation on the spirit of disaster\, both personal and collective. Pushing always against commodification\, against a consumable narrative\, Prathna Lor charts the depths of the self\, searching for an internal music. With a lyric style that emerges from the ruins of unwanted life\, Prathna Lor has created a debut collection that is radiant to touch.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/atwater-poetry-project-holiday-book-fair-2022/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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