Hey friends! We’ve got some exciting things in the works!

We’re closing general submissions in ONE WEEK — if you’d like your work to be considered for inclusion in our next issue, send us your work by next Friday, August 10th!

There will be two Ontario launches of Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You: An untethered Collection of Shorts published in collaboration with Applebeard Editions — one in Toronto, and one in Ottawa!

Toronto

When: Wednesday, July 11 at 7 pm

Where: Supermarket Restaurant & Bar (268 Augusta Ave in Kensington)

Readers: André Babyn, Sara Flemington, Kate Gies, Shari Kasman, Lesley Kenny, Jeanette Lynes, Cara-Lyn Morgan, Karen Mulhallen, Katherine Pilon, Rasiqra Revulva, Emily Sanford, and Priscila Uppal

Ottawa

When: Monday, July 16 at 8 pm

Where: Pour Boy (495 Somerset St W)

Readers: Amanda Earl, a.m. kozak, Leah MacLean-Evans, Jordan Moffatt, and possibly a special guest!

 

We’re launching our seventh issue in just SIX days! We can’t wait for you to join us in launching one of our best issues yet! Here are the details so you can book off work and mark your calendars! We better see you there!

When: Tuesday, May 1st at 7 pm

Where: Supermarket in Kensington (268 Augusta Ave.)

What to expect:

• readings by some of our local contributors including Priscila Uppal, Karen Mulhallen, Evan J, Nicola Winstanley, Joseph Andre Thomas and Hannah Leadley
• some amazing raffle prizes from Brick, Shameless, Briarpatch, PRISM, The Fiddlehead, Bitch magazine, Northern Appeal and more!
• copies of the newest issue on sale for the special launch price of JUST $12 and back issues on special sale for JUST $5!!
• Art for sale from issue artist Nimra Bandukwala

Reader Profiles

Hannah Leadley grew up looking across a river at the city of Detroit. She now writes and paints out of Toronto, investigating how these mediums hold / fail to hold the experiences of queer women. She’s pursuing an MA in creative writing, and working in publicity for The Puritan.

Karen Mulhallen has published 23 books the most recent being Captive Love, A Memoir or Rescue (2017). “Pikangikum” is part of her newest project, Pikangikum and other poems.

Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction writer, memoirist, playwright, and Professor of English at York University. Among her critically acclaimed publications are ten poetry collections, including Sabotage, Traumatology, & Ontological Necessities (Griffin Poetry Prize finalist); novels The Divine Economy of Salvation and To Whom It May Concern; the study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy; memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize and Governor General’s Award finalist); short stories Cover Before Striking and play 6 Essential Questions. Her work has been published internationally and translated into Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean and Latvian. She was the first-ever poet-in- residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games as well as the Roger’s Cup Tennis Tournament in 2011. Her second play What Linda Said recently had its World Premiere at SummerWorks. Time Out London dubbed her “Canada’s coolest poet.” For more information visit priscilauppal.ca

Nicola Winstanley’s fiction, poetry and comix have been previously published in various magazines, including Geist, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Glass Buffalo, and The Quilliad.  Nicola has also published three picture books, most recently A Bedtime Yarn (Tundra); her fourth, How to Give Your Cat a Bath, illustrated by John Martz, is forthcoming in 2019. She teaches at Humber College in Toronto, where she also serves as the book review editor for the Humber Literary Review. Nicola lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Evan J comes from Cree, Anishinaabe, Dakota, and Métis traditional territory, the land of Treaty 1, and he currently lives in Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis traditional territory, the land of the Dish-With-One-Spoon Wampum and Treaty 13, beside Gabekanaang-ziibi / Niwa’ah Onega’gaih’ih / the Humber River. Evan is a white male, and if you have read Evan’s work he implores you to read at least two other non-white writers. Evan is an Editorial Assistant at Brick, A Literary Journal and is the Literary Director and Founder of Slackline Creative Arts Series in Toronto. Find him online at EvanJ.ca.

Joseph Andre Thomas is a writer living and working Toronto. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s creative writing MA program and the recipient of the Avie Bennet Emerging Writer’s award and the Canadian master’s scholarship. His writing has appeared in The Puritan and the Town Crier blog. He is currently working on a novel that he dreams will one day be a Heather’s Pick.

See you on Tuesday!!!!

 

With the May 1st  launch of our brand new issue only TWO short weeks away, we’re giving readers a sneak peek inside the newest.

Click here to check out some of the great work you can expect from our contributors! You all better be getting excited, I know we are!

Stay tuned for all the latest news about our May 1st launch at the Supermarket including spotlights on our features readers and some info on our amazing raffle prizes!!

We’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign for Tea-Length Prose: An untethered Collection to raise funds to pay the contributors, as well as to cover printing and shipping costs.

Our contributors include a wide range of emerging and established Canadian writers, such as Governor General’s Award winners Lorna Crozier and George Elliott Clarke, Saskatchewan Book Award winners Sheri Benning, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Katherine Lawrence, Jeanette Lynes, and Dave Margoshes, along with other widely published and award-winning writers such as Randy Lundy, Cara-Lyn Morgan, Karen Mulhallen, and Priscila Uppal, as well as many other spectacular writers from across the country.

To learn more and to contribute to this project, please visit our Kickstarter here!

We’re so excited to celebrate the launch of our seventh issue with you on Tuesday, May 1st, at 7 pm in the back room of Supermarket in Kensington (268 Augusta Ave) — stay tuned for details!

Front cover art, “Dancer” by Nimra Bandukwala.

Contributors in this issue include Danielle Altrogge, Alexander Castro, Meaghan Hackinen, dee Hobsbawn-Smith, Evan J, Hannah Leadley, Dave Margoshes, Anna Maxymiw, Karen Mulhallen, Kim Murray, mwpm, Aldo Nazarko, Cira Nickel, Issie Patterson, Geoff Pevlin, Aaron Schneider, Marie Metaphor Specht, Joseph Andre Thomas, Priscila Uppal, Miriam Vaswani, and Nicola Winstanley.

Thank you so much to everyone who donated! We are excited to tell you that thanks to folks like you we met our fundraising goal of $150 just twelve hours after we expressed the need.

You can look forward to excerpts from issue 4.1 in the coming weeks, and details about our launch party on May 1st!