Gatherings | Issue 27

SMLTA Recommends, Fertile Festival, contributor launches, Hannah Black, Kevin Chong, Banff Residency, Somebody Somewhere, and Being Mary Tyler Moore

May 16, 2023

Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler

Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler

Time Traveler is one of my favourite writing exercises. It can be used for all genres of writing and can generate some unusual results. I’ve used this exercise in experimental writing, poetry, and fiction workshops. Thanks for reading Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler! Subscribe for free to receive…

2 years ago · Kathryn Mockler

Recommended Viewing

I enjoyed the Being Mary Tyler Moore documentary. I forgot she was the first woman to wear pants on TV in the Dick Van Dyke Show.

I also enjoyed BEEF and the second season of Somebody Somewhere, which has been renewed for a third season! Yay! And of course I watch Succession.

I also saw a terrible movie on Criterion called Bedroom Window (1987). It’s kind of a good-bad movie but mostly bad.

Sari Botton on being childfree:

We are Childfree

We are Childfree on Instagram: “So excited to welcome a Gen X icon to the pod! Author Sari Botton never felt entitled to choose not to be a mother, and at 40, found herself in a fertility clinic getting a diagnosis that gave her “permission” to live a happily childfree life: “Being of the generation that I’m from - I’m the oldest Gen X you can be - nobody told me I was allowed to just opt out. And I needed the intervention of biology, and medicine, to tell me, you actually can’t do this. And when I found out I needed a hysterectomy, my shoulders descended. Everything felt much less stressful. And I just thought, I don’t have to do this. And it was a relief. It was a great relief.” Listen to the We are Childfree podcast wherever you get pods! 🎙 Link in bio 👆 #wearechildfree #childfreepodcast #childfree #childfreebycircumstance #childfreelife #childfreelifestyle #childfreewomen #childfreecommunity #childfreestory #genX”

May 26, 2023

Recommended Residency

Banff Winter Writers Residency 2024 with Casey Plett and Waubgeshig Rice

The Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room, and a small private studio, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks, performances, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work.

Application Deadline: September 24, 2023

Upcoming Contributor Events

Fertile Festival 2023 - August 11-20, 2023 - knife | fork | book

Wolsak and Wynn Spring Launch - June 13, 2023!

7:00 PM 9:00 PM - Tranzac Club292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, ON

FEATURING:

Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction edited by Dan K. Woo
Letters to Little Comrade by Dan K. Woo
Adventurize Your Summer! by Chris Pannell
Gills by Ayomide Bayowa
Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin by Jake Byrne
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems by Catherine Graham.

Book Launch for On Class by Deborah Dundas

Join author and Toronto Star editor Deborah Dundas for the launch of On Class, the latest title in Biblioasis' Field Notes series. Reading and discussion with open Q&A, and book signing to follow.

June 15, 2023
Flying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto - 6:30pm
Free event. Books for sale.