Monday, June 22, 2009
Tara Michelle Ziniuk on CHRY 105.5FM!
Tune into Womyn's Word on CHRY 105.5FM between 12 and 1pm this Wednesday, June 24th for an interview with Tara Michelle Ziniuk! Listen on the radio or stream it at http://www.chry.fm/!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Save the date! She’s Shameless launches June 23rd in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel!
SHE’S SHAMELESS / SHE’S WRITING
Shameless magazine and This Is Not A Reading Series celebrates the launch of She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back
What media event five years ago transformed the lives of teenaged girls across North America? Here’s a clue: it had nothing to do with a boy wizard or the misadventures of trust fund brats. In June of 2004, Shameless, a magazine for “girls who get it”, first appeared on newsstands. The editor and publisher of the magazine have assembled She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back (Tightrope Books). To celebrate the launch of the inaugural Shameless collection, contributors like Zoe Whittall and Shannon Gerard will perform short pieces. Five teenaged girls will join them on-stage and present monologues from a writing workshop conducted that afternoon by acclaimed writer and teacher Ibi Kaslik. The evening will conclude with an early ‘90s-themed, Sadie Hawkins prom, featuring a noted local DJ. – A This is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Tightrope Books, Shameless, NOW Magazine, Gladstone Hotel and Take Five On CIUT.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tues June 23; 8pm (doors 7:30pm) $5 (Free with Book Purchase)
Friday, June 5, 2009
Call for Submissions: Best Canadian Essays
Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino are editing the first Best Canadian Essays, set for publication this fall with Tightrope Books. Along with print magazines, they're interested to consider essays and articles posted online. If you're a Canadian writer with an essay posted to a site in 2008, it's possible to submit the piece by sending the link, a brief bio, word count and month the work was posted in 2008 to bestcanessay (singular) @ gmail.com -- please put the essay topic in the subject line. They're looking for more than just literary work here and considering all kinds of material.
Call For Submissions:
Steel Bananas Presents: Fragmentation
Editors Karen Correia Da Silva, Sarah Beaudin and Curran Folkers are calling for submissions of poetry and prose on the theme of fragmentation for the upcoming Steel Bananas Anthology, to be released with Tightrope Books this fall. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and concept of the assemblage, the anthology aims to create a snapshot of the diversity of contemporary Canadian literary culture, mixing burgeoning young writers with established literary figures.
Submissions will be selected on the basis of formal and thematic originality, so interested writers are encouraged to explore and experiment with the boundaries of their relation to the written word.
Please send all submissions to themeissue@steelbananas.com by July 15th '09, and direct all inquiries to karends@tightropebooks.com.
Submissions will be selected on the basis of formal and thematic originality, so interested writers are encouraged to explore and experiment with the boundaries of their relation to the written word.
Please send all submissions to themeissue@steelbananas.com by July 15th '09, and direct all inquiries to karends@tightropebooks.com.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Upcoming Events!
The Launch of Tara-Michelle Ziniuk’s New Book of Poetry Somewhere to Run From with special guests The Pining
Join us for a night of great poetry and music! Tightrope Books presents the launch of Tara Michelle Ziniuk’s newest book of poetry: Somewhere to Run From. Tara Michelle will be reading from her new collection, followed by music from The Pining. It’s sure to be a great evening!
About the Author:
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk is a Montreal-born, Toronto-based author, performer and activist with an extensive background in community radio. She has been published in magazines and anthologies across North America and is a regular contributor to NOW, Broken Pencil Magazine, and Herizons as well as writing for This,$pread, HOUR and others. Her first book, Emergency Contact, was released with McGilligan Books in 2006 to wide critical acclaim and was taught through the English Department at York University.
About Somewhere to Run From:
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk’s second collection of poetry is dangerously sarcastic, Toronto-local, bitter, sweet, and bruising in its honesty. Challenging the notions of what a girl runs from, both literally and figuratively, Somewhere to Run From takes on complex settings from which to depart: poverty, pop and sub-culture, madness and normative sexuality among these locations.
Tightrope Books Presents: Spring 2009 Titles
Bone Dream by Moira MacDougall and Fortune Cookie by Heather J. Wood
Join Tightrope Books and host Myna Wallin for an evening of readings by Moira MacDougall and Heather J. Wood, followed by Classical cabaret entertainment provided by poet/violinist Phoebe Tsang and the Devah Quartet!
About the Authors:
Heather J Wood was born and raised in Montreal. She also lived in Vancouver prior to settling in Toronto with her husband, Kurt, and various feline pets. Her short fiction has appeared in several journals and chapbooks, as well as in two Tightrope Books anthologies, In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural and IV Lounge Nights. Heather often uses her middle initial “J” for improved Googleability.
Moira MacDougall is the Associate Poetry Editor of The Literary Review of Canada. She has had poems published in literary magazines and journals in Canada and the USA. This is her first book length collection.
About Bone Dream:
This is poetry that maps a woman’s body as a partner to her life experience.
The poems in Bone Dream are darkly sensuous, capturing the unspoken moments of life through images firmly grounded in the body and the material world. Relationships, family and death are explored at times through the medium of a dancer’s body, and at other times through the everyday artefacts we find around us. These poems move, disturb and bring us to realization.
About Fortune Cookie:
A refreshing take on a young woman’s journey, one that does not rely on sexual escapades to catalyze its heroine’s coming of age.
Fortune Cookie is a diary-style novella set in Montreal during the turbulent year of 1989. The book follows Robin through her growing disenchantment with the aimless life of a twenty-something who hasn’t yet found herself in a world that is changing as fast as she is. This subversively feminist work, aimed at young women, is told in first-person vignettes - written in the informal and often humourous voice of 24-year-old Robin. Robin’s vignettes are at times intercut with news headlines, highlighting the political and social events of the year - including Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Montreal Massacre.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Forward Fiction: Readings by Ann Eriksson, Stacey May Fowles and Stan Dragland
Join us for readings by Tightrope author Stacey May Fowles as well as Stan Dragland and Ann Eriksson!
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Monday April 27th
Supermarket
268 Augusta
Toronto, ON
6:30PM
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