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SUMMARY:The Decade Reading: Metatron Press 10-Year Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 20\, 2024\, 5:00-10:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nMetatron Press presents: A 10-Year-Anniversary Reading and Party \n\n\n\nJoin Metatron Press and friends for an abundantly ambitious reading to mark and celebrate our 10 year anniversary! This 3-part reading brings together a staggeringly brilliant group of voices that we have published over the past 10 years\, including local legends\, poets\, and writers traveling to us from Ontario\, Saskatchewan\, California\, New York\, and Massachusetts. \n\n\n\nFor 10 years\, Metatron has been passionately championing\, preserving\, and celebrating poetry and experimental writing. Along the way\, they’ve hosted 70 events\, published 50 groundbreaking books\, and built a rich archive of digital poetry\, creating a platform for thousands of voices to resonate with those who know how to listen. \n\n\n\nDrop in anytime between 5 PM and 10 PM for an evening of electrifying readings\, delicious drinks (cocktails\, mocktails)\, snacks\, and engaging conversation. As you immerse yourself in the words\, let Field Note set the sonic atmosphere between and after the readings. \n\n\n\nTickets are available now—grab an Early Bird ticket at a reduced rate before they sell out (limited quantities until October 1st). Don’t miss this unforgettable celebration of poetry\, the written word\, and the ancient art of listening. \n\n\n\nReaders\n\n\n\nSARA SUTTERLIN ❋ Author of Baby + I Wanted to Be the KnifeALI PINKNEY (Toronto) ❋ Author of TampionLEE SUKSI (Toronto) ❋ Author of The NervesLORA MATHIS (Oakland) ❋ Author of The Snakes Came BackFAITH PARÉ ❋ GLYPHÖRIA Contributor + Winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging WritersJAY RITCHIE ❋ Author of How to Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying on the InsideLIZ BOWEN (Syracruse) ❋ Author of SugarbloodVIOLA CHEN ❋ Author of No ProblematicsOLIVIA WOOD ❋ Author of A Work No One Told You AboutMARCELA HUERTA ❋ Author of TropicoTRYNNE DELANEY ❋ Author of the half-drownedSENNAH YEE (Toronto) ❋ Author of How Do I Look?SOFIA BANZHAF (Toronto) ❋ Author of Pony CastleBRAD CASEY ❋ Author of The Idiot On Fire + Host of Metatron Podcast MetacösmGREG ZORKO (Massachusetts) ❋ Author of Ghost In The ClubFRANKIE BARNET ❋ Author of An Indoor Kind of Girl + Kim: A Novel IdeaCASON SHARPE (Toronto) ❋ Author of Our Lady of Perpetual Realness and Other StoriesALASDAIR REES (Saskatoon) ❋ GLYPHÖRIA Editor + Saskatchewan’s first Youth Poet LaureateALEX MANLEY ❋ Author of We Are All Just Animals + PlantsHANNAH KARPINSKI ❋ Metatron’s Assistant Editor + Metatron Author To-Be! \n\n\n\n𝘈𝘊𝘊𝘌𝘚𝘚𝘐𝘉𝘐𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘠Le Systéme is a fully accessible space  \n\n\n\n𝘚𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘋𝘜𝘓𝘌 (𝘈𝘗𝘗𝘙𝘖𝘟𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘌)Reading 001 – 5:30-6:15 pm (Readers TBA)Reading 002 – 7-7:45 pm (Readers TBA)Reading 003 – 8:30-9:15 pm (Readers TBA) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-decade-reading-metatron-press-10-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:Le Système\, 7119 rue Saint-Hubert\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:The Power of Fiction Readings and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled to: Monday\, October 21\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ETFree RSVP via Ticketsource\n\n\n\nPlease join Argo Books for an evening with Danila Botha\, Nora Gold\, Mireille Silcoff and Sivan Slapak\, where they will be performing readings of their work\, followed by a discussion about their craft\, common themes and personal inspiration. There will also be an open Q&A and time for book signing. This event is free\, but space is limited\, so please RSVP on TicketSource. \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nDanila Botha is the author of three short story collections\, Got No Secrets and For All the Men (and Some of the Women I’ve Known). Her new collection\, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was published in April by Guernica Editions. Her novels include Too Much on the Inside and A Place for People Like Us (2025). \n\n\n\nDr. Nora Gold\, born and raised in Montreal\, is the prize-winning author of five books and the editor-in-chief of the prestigious literary journal Jewish Fiction. Gold’s books have won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award\, a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award\, and praise from Cynthia Ozick\, Dara Horn\, and Alice Munro. noragold.com \n\n\n\nMireille Silcoff is the editor of Best Canadian Essays 2023\, and is a regular essayist at The New York Times\, where she covers culture and society. Mireille is the author of four books\, including the multi-award-winning story collection Chez l’Arabe. Mireille began her career in the early 1990s as a nightclub reporter at the Montreal Mirror. She has written extensively about drugs and psychedelics. Mireille is currently writing a book with Vin Mon Lapin (Phaidon\, 2025)\, and is completing her latest collection of short fiction. She runs the raucous discussion salon Hot Chain. \n\n\n\nSivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly\, Montreal Serai\, carte blanche\, and collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition\, won the TNQ Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award once\, and was shortlisted for it twice. Here Is Still Here is her first book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Ticketsource
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-power-of-fiction-readings-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel,Reading
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SUMMARY:2024 Literary Oktoberfest
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 23\, 2024\, 7:00-11:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nYolk is excited to announce its second annual Literary Oktoberfest! Join us for a night inspired by the atmospheric outdoor beer gardens of Oktoberfest and designed to connect writers\, agents\, publishers\, booksellers\, and literary support organizations in the city of Montreal. The evening will begin with three keynote speakers—Nour Abi-Nakhoul (Editor-in-Chief\, Maisonneuve Magazine)\, Ashley Obscura (Founder & Managing Editor\, Metatron Press)\, and Lori Schubert (Executive Director\, Quebec Writers’ Federation)—sharing insights about their publishing journeys\, and conclude with two readings by prominent authors Liz Howard and Neil Smith. Throughout the evening there will be time to meet new writers\, industry professionals\, and discover what this city has to offer. \n\n\n\nThe 10$ entry fee includes a free drink ticket. Limited spots available! A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door (10$\, no drink ticket included). This is an 18+ event. \n\n\n\nWhen: Wednesday October 23rd\, 2024\, 7pm-11pm. \n\n\n\nWhere: Riverside St. Henri (5020 Saint Ambroise St\, Montreal) \n\n\n\nParticipating organizations tabling at the event include: \n\n\n\n\nAssociation of English Language Publishers of Quebec\n\n\n\ncarte blanche\n\n\n\nConcordia University Press\n\n\n\nHeadlight Anthology\n\n\n\nLibrairie St. Henri Books\n\n\n\nLibrairie De Stiil Booksellers\n\n\n\nLinda Leith Publishing\n\n\n\nMaisonneuve Magazine\n\n\n\nMetatron Press\n\n\n\nMetonymy Press\n\n\n\nMontreal Review of Books\n\n\n\nPoetry Matters\n\n\n\nQuebec Writers’ Federation\n\n\n\nSoliloquies\n\n\n\nTurret House Press\n\n\n\n…and more to be announced\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2024-literary-oktoberfest/
LOCATION:Riverside St-Henri\, 5020 Saint Ambrose St.\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4C 2G1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Networking,Panel,QWF Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Violet Hour: 10 Years of Metonymy Press
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 24\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special Violet Hour at Pulp Bookstore in Verdun\, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Metonymy Press. \n\n\n\nCreated in 2014 by Ashley Fortier and Oliver Fugler\, Metonymy Press aims to reduce barriers to publishing for authors whose perspectives are underrepresented in order to produce quality materials relevant to queer\, feminist\, and social justice communities. \n\n\n\nViolet Hour’s Christopher DiRaddo will be speaking with publishers Ashley and Oliver about Metonymy’s beginnings and the past decade. We’ll also be hearing from press authors H Felix Chau Bradley and Kama La Mackerel\, and there will be readings from Ralph Haddad and Leila Marshy\, both of whom appear in Metonymy’s recent release\, El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities. \n\n\n\nHosted by Christopher DiRaddo \n\n\n\nA partnership between Metonymy Press\, Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, The Équipe de recherche en études Queer au Québec and Violet Hour. \n\n\n\nAbout the Press\n\n\n\nMetonymy Press is based in Tio’tià:ke\, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. For ten years\, Metonymy has been publishing literary works by emerging queer and trans writers — what one author described as “books that reframe power and affirm life.” They really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. \n\n\n\nMetonymy is the project of Ashley Fortier and Oliver Fugler. They met on their first day of high school and have been writing together and editing for each other ever since. Their work is supported by a fantastic roster of collaborators\, including acquisitions editors H Felix Chau Bradley\, Kama La Mackerel\, and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. \n\n\n\nAbout the Writers\n\n\n\nH Felix Chau Bradley is a writer and editor living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Personal Attention Roleplay\, a story collection. You can find their recent work in carte blanche\, ESPACE art actuel\, the Ex-Puritan\, GLYPHÖRIA\, the Humber Literary Review\, PRISM International\, Words Without Borders and Xtra. \n\n\n\nRalph Haddad specialized in Islamic Studies with a Concentration on emerging Gender and Sexuality studies coming out of and around Southwest Asia. He currently serves as the Head of Advocacy for Basmeh and Zeitooneh\, a Syrian refugee-led organization based in Lebanon\, where he aims to advance the cause of refugee protection at such a critical juncture in Lebanese history. Ralph is Lebanese-born and currently resides in Montreal\, but is perpetually in search of home. \n\n\n\nKama La Mackerel is an educator\, visual artist\, performer\, writer and translator who works between and across English\, French and Mauritian Kreol. They are the author of the award-winning poetry collection ZOM-FAM (Metonymy Press) and have translated works by Canadian writers Vivek Shraya and Kai Cheng Thom. They have lectured\, performed and exhibited their work internationally. Find them on social media @kamalamackerel \n\n\n\nLeila Marshy is a Palestinian-Montrealer. During the First Intifada\, she worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent\, the Palestinian Mental Health Association\, and Medical Aid for Palestine. In 2011\, she founded Friends of Hutchison\, a groundbreaking community group bringing Hasidic and non-Hasidic neighbours together in dialogue. Her first novel\, The Philistine\, was published in 2018 and in French in 2021. Her collection of stories\, My Thievery of the People\, will be out in March 2025. She is Fiction Editor at Baraka Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/violet-hour-10-years-of-metonymy-press/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Networking,Panel,Reading,Series
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