Gatherings | Issue 24
Gatherings | Issue 24
SMLTA Recommends: Draft Reading Series, Trynne Delany, Leigh Stein on BookTok, Lynda Barry, Sophie Calle, Elisa Gabber, Farzana Doctor's Freedom to Read Award, Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee, & more!
Where you can donate in Canada and the US to help earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.
The audiobook of my sister’s memoir Fractured is out.
New dates and group bookings available for Kirby’s Behold, written & adapted for the stage by Kirby from their book Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press)
You + What If? Writing Prompt from Where Do I Start?
Congratulations to Farzana Doctor who is the recipient of the 2023 Freedom to Read Award
Check out Draft’s hybrid reading series February 26, 2023 with featured readers Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Pamela Mordecai, Gabriel Osson and Ayelet Tsabari.
Read an excerpt from Trynne Delany’s forthcoming book, A House Unsettled, Open Book
BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform by Leigh Stein, LitHub
What is AI up to now? It’s de-aging stars, The Guardian
Shani Mootoo reviews Madhur Anand’s Parasitic Oscillations in Canadian Notes & Queries
Anne Boyer doesn’t fuck with the term “lyric essay”.
Jen Sookfong Lee's memoir Superfan looks at her life through pop culture lens by Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun
What Causes Déjà Vu?, Scientific American
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing, The Marginalia
Everyone in Canada is mad at Netflix, BlogTO
Elisa Gabbert on Beginnings, New York Times
Sophie Calle: Dumped by Email, The Tate (2008)
Excellent lecture from The Tyee Founder David Beers on The War on Journalists
Wise words from Lynda Barry:
Issue #24 of Send My Love to Anyone
On Writing and Word Counts by Alex Leslie
Why I Start a New Writing Project Before I Finish My Current One by Kathryn Mockler
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ICYMI from Issue 23
An Excerpt from The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
The Return of the Owl by Kirby
Relearning the Book Business: All about pre-orders by Kathryn Mockler
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