December 3 - 9, 2013 Welcome to Patchy Delivery #350, going to 1,092 subscribers and featuring listings for Toronto literary events as submitted by reading and workshop organizers, publishers, and writers. Hey, look, do me a favour? Do you have friends who are into literary events but might not know about Patchy? Do you know people are who are organizing literary events? Please help spread the word! PATCHY SAYS: Patchy Squirrel is assembled each week by volunteer Patchy Operative Stuart Ross! Hes leading a great poetry workshop on December — see Leaping to Future Branches below! And hes launching his new book at the December 8 Mansfield Press launch! PATCHY ALSO SAYS: Big thanks to Susan Zimmerman for feeding the squirrel! Have you considered tipping Patchy for this great free service? Are you finding Patchy useful? Has Patchy been listing your events? Now would be a great time to show your appreciation! Whether youre a subscriber or an event organizer, please consider making a modest donation ($1, $5, $10, $20) to help support this free service for the Toronto literary community. You can feed the squirrel via PayPal to patchysquirrel@gmail. Or write to Patchy about doing an eTransfer through your bank or sending along a cheque or well-concealed cash. 1. Events 2. Leaping to Future Branches 3. Patchy in a Nutshell 4. Weekly Nutable 1. E V E N T S :::T U E S D A Y 3 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: ______________________________ BONESHAKER READING SERIES ______________________________ Boneshaker Reading Series presents Giles Benaway and Joseph Brush Tuesday, December 3, 7 pm St. Clair/Silverthorn Library, 1748 St. Clair West Free Hosted by Lillian Necakov ________________________________ BEST CANADIAN POETRY LAUNCH ________________________________ Launch for Best Canadian Poetry 2013 Tuesday, December 3, 7pm PJ OBriens Pub, 39 Colborne Street Free Reading by contributors, with introductions by editors Molly Peacock and Sue Goyette _________________________ ART BAR POETRY SERIES _________________________ ART BAR POETRY SERIES December 3, 8 pm Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor Free; donations accepted Featuring: Jan Conn Sue Reynolds Allan Briesmaster :::W E D N E S D A Y 4 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: _____________________________________ LITTLE BROTHER NO. 3 LAUNCH PARTY _____________________________________ LITTLE BROTHER NO. 3 These! Are! The! Good! Times! Issue 3 is straight up poppin and we need your help getting this party started. With new fiction by Jess Taylor and Stephen Thomas, a portfolio from Alicia Nauta, essays from Sara McCulloch and Spencer Gordon, horoscopes from Rea McNamara accompanied by Jenn Kitawagas beguiling graphics, mesmerizing photography from Elissa Pearl Matthews and Christine Kwan and tender, effervescent captions from Nyla Matuk, this issue is basically destined to make chart topping, greatest hits history. Come help us celebrate the Pop issue with cookies, soda, short readings and good tunes. Wednesday, December 4, 7 pm June Records, 662 College Free :::T H U R S D A Y 5 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: ________________________ GREG KEARNEY LAUNCH ________________________ Launch for The Desperates, by Greg Kearney 2012 ReLit award-winning author Greg Kearney is launching his wild and wonderful first novel, The Desperates Thursday, December 5, 6 pm The Black Eagle, 457 Church Street Free cormorantbooks/9781770863026/ __________________________ LITERATURE OF THE SELF __________________________ LITERATURE OF THE SELF JIAN GHOMESHI AND SHEILA HETI IN CONVERSATION PEN Canada hosts Literature of the Self: Jian Ghomeshi and Sheila Heti in Conversation as part of the Ideas in Dialogue series. Ghomeshi and Heti will discuss the interplay between traditional memoirs and writing that blends fictional facts and factual fictions as Mark Medley moderates the conversation. Thursday, December 5th, 7.00 p.m. Royal Ontario Museum, Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, 100 Queens Park $25 for general admission and $15 for students. Jian Ghomeshi is a broadcaster, writer, musician and producer. He is the host and co-creator of the national daily talk program, Q, on CBC Radio One and CBC TV. His first book, 1982, is a memoir told across ten intertwined stories of the songs and musical moments that changed his life. Sheila Heti is the author of five books. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, The London Review of Books, n+1, McSweeneys, Harpers, Bookforum, and other places. Most recently, she published How Should a Person Be?, a novel about a playwright named Sheila, which combines transcribed conversations, real emails and fiction. Mark Medley is the National Posts Books editor. He will be moderating the conversation. Full event information available at: pencanada.ca/events-info/literature-self-jian-ghomeshi-sheila-heti-conversation/ ______________________________ BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR ______________________________ Julie Maroh presentation and Q&A for Blue Is the Warmest Color Thursday, December 5, 7:00pm The Central, 603 Markham St. Free Join graphic artist and author Julie Maroh for a special evening featuring a discussion of her acclaimed graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Color, adapted into the award-winning feature film released this fall. Blue Is the Warmest Color is a brilliant, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel about the elusive, reckless magic of love. It is a lesbian love story that crackles with the energy of youth, rebellion, and desire. This is Julie Maroh’s first official appearance for the book in Canada! beguilingbooksandart/tag/blue-is-the-warmest-color/ _____________ LIVEWORDS _____________ Thursday December 5, 7:30 PM The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor PWYC Donations go to the readers. LIVEWORDS Please join us as livewords ebulliently traipses into the holiday season with four fabulous writers: Amy Lavender Harris, Liz Howard, Kateri Lanthier and Jenny Sampirisi. We are thrilled to welcome back Liz, Kateri and Jenny, and even more chuffed to welcome Amy to Livewords for the first time. We will also have an Open Mic following the readings. Hosted by Edward Nixon. Open Mic hosted by Shawna Dimitry. Reader Bios Amy Lavender Harris is the author of Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism and won the 2011 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. Her next book, Acts of Salvage, explores what the contemporary city compels us to cling to or discard. Liz Howard, a native varietal of northern Ontario, has taken root in Toronto where she engages in cognition research and poetics. She is a member of the Influency Salon editorial group and co-cultivates the AvantGarden reading series. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, ditch, Matrix, and Misunderstandings Magazine. Skullambient, her first chapbook, was published by Ferno House Press in 2011. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the LitPop Award for poetry Kateri Lanthiers poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines in Canada, the United States and England, including Descant, Grain, Matrix, The Antigonish Review, Poetry Canada Review, Acta Victoriana, The U.C. Review, The Greenfield Review, SaturdayNight, Quarry, The Toronto Quarterly, Writing Women and London Magazine. Her collection Reporting from Night was published by Iguana Books in 2011. Her poem “THE COIN UNDER THE LEFTMOST SLIDING CUP” won the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize. Kateri Lanthier lives in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood. Jenny Sampirisi is a poet, novelist, and university instructor, living in Toronto. She is the author of the novel is/was (Insomniac Press) and experimental poetry narrative Croak (Coach House Books). _________________ BRICK LAUNCH _________________ Launch for Brick and The New Brick Reader Join Brick and House of Anansi for A Very Bricky Launch. Were celebrating the launch of our latest issue, Brick 92, and The New Brick Reader, our second anthology, featuring the best of the past 22 years! Thursday, December 5, 7:30 PM Rasputin Vodka Lounge, 780 Queen Street East Free :::S A T U R D A Y 7 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: _____________________________ SATURDAYS AT PORTOBELLO _____________________________ Saturdays at Portobello an afternoon of Words and Music Featured Writer/Poet - Ann Elizabeth Carson Featured Poet/Musician - Kent Bowman Guest Poet - Don Cullen Guest Author/Storyteller - Diz Altschul Guest Musician/Poet - Fred Gardiner Guest Musician - Jeff Burke Guest Vocalist - Susan MacDonnel Saturday, December 7, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Portobello Restaurant & Bar, 995 Bay St. Free :::S U N D A Y 8 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: ______________________________________ MANSFIELD PRESS FALL LAUNCH PARTY ______________________________________ Mansfield Press invites you — yes, you! — to the 2013 Fall Launch Party POETRY - Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books, by Stephen Brockwell - What The World Said, by Jason Camlot - Monkey Soap, by Glen Downie - Our Days in Vaudeville, by Stuart Ross & 29 collaborators FICTION - Dear Leaves, I Miss You All, by Sara Heinonen There will be readings, books for sale, the usually snappy repartee, warm camaraderie, and the announcement of the spring 2014 list. Hosted by Mansfield publisher/editor Denis De Klerck and editor Stuart Ross Sunday, December 8, 7:30 pm The Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street Free mansfieldpress.net 2. L E A P I N G T O F U T U R E B R A N C H E S :::S U N D A Y 1 5 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3::: ____________________________________ STUART ROSSS WALKING THE POEM ____________________________________ STUART ROSSS WALKING THE POEM Write in ways you’ve never written before! Poet and writing teacher Stuart Ross offers a relaxed, supportive workshop for poets at all levels. Walking the Poem focuses on creating new work and exploring the possibilities of those texts, as each poem multiplies and mutates. You will create several short sequences through the course of the day, and go home with strategies for expanding and extending these pieces even further. Sunday, December 15, 10 am - 5 pm Dupont/Christie area, Toronto Fee: $95 includes materials and light snacks Space is limited. To register, write razovsky@gmail Comments from participants in a recent workshop: Absolutely useful — it evokes all the best creativity. Great work, enjoyable group! Thanks for some inspiring ideas to help motivate my writing. A worthwhile day. Fabulous! Fun! Fantastic! Highly recommended for jump-starting your poems. Great day! It helped me get out of a funk. Very helpful. Stuart Ross is the award-winning author of nine eight poetry books, most recently You Exist. Details Follow. (Anvil Press) and Our Days in Vaudeville (Mansfield Press). He has taught writing workshops across the country. As an editor, he has worked on books that have been shortlisted for the ReLit Prize, the Trillium Poetry Award, the Governor Generals Award, the Gerald Lampert Award, and twice the Griffin Poetry Prize — and one of those went on to win the Griffin! Stuart has been award the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction, the Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction & Poetry on a Jewish Theme, and the Exist Through the Gift Shop Award. 3. P A T C H Y I N A N U T S H E L L To sign up for the Patchy Squirrel Lit-Serv, send a blank email with SUBSCRIBE in the subject header to patchysquirrel@gmail. To unsubscribe, send a blank email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject header to patchysquirrel@gmail. To submit a listing, send to patchysquirrel@gmail with the NAME OF EVENT and DATE in the subject header. In the body of the email, include name of event, date, location, admission fee, detailed description of event, website, etc. Patchy cannot make use of attachments! Patchy is a free, volunteer-run service. To make a donation to Patchy, Feed The Squirrel via PayPal at patchysquirrel@gmail or contact Patchy to arrange an eTransfer through your bank or send a donation by snail mail. Listings deadline for the next mailout: Saturday, December 7, 9:25:13 p.m. 4. W E E K L Y N U T A B L E Without a squirrel, black ants are confused. SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! LOVE, PATCHY
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