BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Metonymy Press - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Metonymy Press X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://metonymypress.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Metonymy Press REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20160313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20161106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20170312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20171105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20180311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20181104T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20181015T180246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181015T180635Z UID:24123-1539972000-1539979200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Montreal launch of nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon DESCRIPTION:How do you honour blood and chosen kin with equal care? A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations\, prairie punk scenes\, and queer love stories\, Lindsay Nixon’s nîtisânak is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family\, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on Nixon’s Cree\, Saulteaux\, and Métis ancestral teachings\, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal. \nJoin Lindsay and special guests Arielle Twist\, Gwen Benaway\, and Kai Cheng Thom for a night of readings in honour of the book’s much-anticipated release. \nLINDSAY NIXON is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator\, award-nominated editor\, award-nominated writer\, and McGill Art History PhD student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak\, an independent art\, art criticism\, and literature journal\, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review\, Room\, GUTS\, MICE\, esse\, Inuit Art Quarterly\, Teen Vogue\, and other publications. nîtisânak is their first book. \nARIELLE TWIST is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation\, Saskatchewan\, based out of Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She is a Nehiyaw\, Two-Spirit\, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories. Within her short career pursuing writing she has attended a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and has work published with Them\, Canadian Art\, Fiddlehead and PRISM International. She also works as a freelance editor with GUTS Magazine and her debut collection of poetry Disintegrate/Dissociate is forthcoming Spring 2019 with Arsenal Pulp Press. \nGWEN BENAWAY is a bisexual feminist Gemini trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry\, Ceremonies for the Dead\, Passage\, and Holy Wild. Her fourth collection of poetry\, Aperture\, is forthcoming from Book*hug in Spring 2020. Her writing has been published in many national publications\, including CBC Arts\, Maclean’s Magazine\, and the Globe and Mail. She is currently editing an anthology of Fantasy short stories by trans girl writers and writing a book of creative non-fiction\, trans girl in love. \nKAI CHENG THOM is a writer\, performer\, lasagna lover\, and wicked witch. She lives and dreams from the unceded Indigenous territories that make up colonial-era Canada. A prolific poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist\, her published book-length works include the award-winning Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press)\, a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, and From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (Arsenal Pulp Press). \n// \nBar le Ritz is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms. This is a free event. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/montreal-launch-of-nitisanak-by-lindsay-nixon/ LOCATION:Bar Le Ritz PDB\, 179 Rue Jean-Talon Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 2Y9\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nitisanak-cover-option-7-e1539626682282.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180926T192755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180926T192838Z UID:24091-1539367200-1539370800@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Halifax launch of nîtisânak DESCRIPTION:Venus Envy Halifax is so excited to be hosting the brilliant Lindsay Nixon to launch their debut book nîtisânak with readings from the incredi-babe Arielle Twist!\n \n~~ About Lindsay Nixon & nîtisânak ~~\n \nLindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator\, award-nominated editor\, award-nominated writer\, and McGill Art History PhD student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak\, an independent art\, art criticism\, and literature journal\, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review\, Room\, GUTS\, MICE\, esse\, Inuit Art Quarterly\, Teen Vogue\, and other publications. nîtisânak is their first book published by Metonymy Press.\n \nHow do you honour blood and chosen kin with equal care? A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations\, prairie punk scenes\, and queer love stories\, Lindsay Nixon’s nîtisânak is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family\, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on Nixon’s Cree\, Saulteaux\, and Métis ancestral teachings\, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal.\n  \n~~ About Arielle Twist & Disintegrate/Dissociate (forthcoming\, March 1st\, 2019) ~~\n \nArielle Twist is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation\, Saskatchewan\, based out of Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She is a Nehiyaw\, Two-Spirit\, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories. Within her short career pursuing writing she has attended a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and has work published with Them\, Canadian Art\, Fiddlehead and PRISM International. She also works as a freelance editor with GUTS magazine and her debut collection of poetry Disintegrate/Dissociate is forthcoming Spring 2019 with Arsenal Pulp Press.\n \nIn her powerful debut collection of poetry\, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems\, she explores\, with both rage and tenderness\, the parameters of grief\, trauma\, displacement\, and identity. Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes\, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman\, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a transcendent\, beautiful path to regaining softness.\n  \nAccess Notes: The main entry is up 2 steps from the sidewalk on Hollis Street\, however there is the mall entrance further down the block outside on the same street that will be staffed by a volunteer to direct folks and open the door. There is an all genders wheelchair accessible washroom. To create a more accessible space for folks with scent sensitivites\, we ask that guests refrain from wearing scented products please! If anyone would like sign language interpretation provided at this event\, please contact Christine at christine@venusenvy.ca and she will make that happen! This event is free! URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/halifax-launch-nitisanak/ LOCATION:The Khyber Centre for the Arts\, 1880 Hollis Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 1W6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Lindsay_mockup-e1537990034628.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180923T151932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180923T151932Z UID:24081-1538240400-1538251200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Lectures POP Reads\, featuring Lindsay Nixon and more DESCRIPTION:Gratuit – Free\, Avec – with : Marie Darsigny\, Caro Fortin\, Ashley Obscura\, Manu Mineau\, Lindsay Nixon\, Natasha Young + invités ! + guests! \nExpozine\, Montreal’s annual small press fair and Art POP presents POP Reads in collaboration with Montreal Review of Books! Montreal is blessed with a thriving literary\, small press and spoken-word scene. Come discover the dynamic\, diverse new voices\, poets and authors reading in English and French from recently published books\, literary magazines and zines. You could also peruse recent books and zines available for sale at the event from participating publishers! \nAvec – with : Les Éditions Aura\, Les Filles Missiles\, Les Éditions Remue-Ménage\, Metatron Press\, Metonomy Press\, Les Éditions Rodrigol\, Oie de Cravan et plus – and more! URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/lectures-pop-reads-featuring-lindsay-nixon-and-more/ LOCATION:Rialto Lounge\, 5719 du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/41940075_2181911042096214_46872803462348800_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180923T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180923T163000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180923T150938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180923T151123Z UID:24074-1537718400-1537720200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Lindsay Nixon at Word on the Street Toronto DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Voices Stage – Hosted by Daniel Heath Justice \nLindsay Nixon reads from and discusses their new book\, nîtisânak. \nA groundbreaking memoir spanning nations\, queer punk scenes\, and Indigenous teachings\, nîtisânak works with the idea of relatedness. It also examines how queer kin were some of the author’s first experiences of reciprocal relationality and care. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/lindsay-nixon-at-word-on-the-street-toronto/ LOCATION:Harbourfront Centre\, 235 Queens Quay W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Toronto-Logo-PNG-opt.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180808T163252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T170725Z UID:23965-1534618800-1534626000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:The Prairie Wind Is Gay AF: a preview of Lindsay Nixon's nîtisânak DESCRIPTION:Lindsay Nixon’s kinship memoir\, nîtisânak\, is out this fall from Metonymy Press. As part of Pervers/cité 2018\, Lindsay will be reading from the upcoming book alongside some special guests. \nJoin us for a night of queer AF readings\, featuring Lindsay\, Helen Chau Bradley\, and Eli Tareq Lynch! \nThis is a free event\, with donations accepted for the readers. \nLe Co-op Cagibi is on the 55 St-Laurent bus route. There are two steps to get inside. The front door\, which will be propped open\, is three feet wide. There are two gender-neutral washrooms\, one of which is built to accessibility code. Part of the restaurant’s serving counter is three feet high. The main part of the venue is all one level. \nAbout the book: \nnîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations\, prairie punk scenes\, and queer love stories\, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family\, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on their Cree\, Saulteaux\, and Métis ancestral teachings\, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal. \nAbout the readers: \nLINDSAY NIXON is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator\, award-nominated editor\, award-nominated writer and McGill Art History Ph.D. student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak\, an independent art\, art criticism and literature journal\, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review\, Room\, GUTS\, Mice\, esse\, The Inuit Art Quarterly\, Teen Vogue and other publications. Their forthcoming memoir\, nîtisânak\, is to be released in September 2018 through Metonymy Press. \nELI TAREQ LYNCH is a poet working in Montreal. Their work has appeared in the Puritan\, Carte Blanche\, the Shade Journal\, The New Quarterly\, The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, and elsewhere\, and they have work upcoming in Plenitude and Cosmonauts Avenue. They were one of the organizers of the Off the Page 2016 literary festival and participated in the Banff Centre’s ‘Centering Ourselves’ BIPOC residency. \nHELEN CHAU BRADLEY is a former bookseller & forever reader. She writes in an attempt to distill a feeling. For her tiny book reviews and reading recommendations\, follow @notesofacrocodile on Instagram. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/the-prairie-wind-is-gay-af-a-preview-of-lindsay-nixons-nitisanak/ LOCATION:Le Cagibi\, 6596 Blvd. St Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S3C6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/prairie-wind-event-collage-e1533748107812.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180722T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180722T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180710T194308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180710T194308Z UID:23916-1532268000-1532286000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Slut Island\, featuring Lindsay Nixon & others DESCRIPTION:Chivengi •Melody Mckiver•Chloe Alexandra•Bá Ra•Lindsay Nixon•\n \nSLUT ISLAND FESTIVAL\nFull festival line up/event page\n \n• Melody McKiver • (Sioux Lookout)\nMelody McKiver is an Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist and arts educator located in Sioux Lookout on Treaty #3 territory. A member of Obishikokaang Lac Seul First Nation on their mother’s side\, Melody’s father’s family are settler Canadians of Scottish and Lithuanian origins. Melody is a compelling solo performer\, integrating contemporary electronics into rigorous Western classical musical training to shape Anishinaabe compositions for the new millennium. Melody is current booking performances to support the December 2017 release of their latest EP “Reckoning\,” The album is the score to Article 11’s theatre production of the same name\, exploring the effects of Indian Residential Schools and the repercussions of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Melody is one of many Indigenous artists across Turtle Island turning critical eyes towards the realities of colonization\, and using their art to not only raise awareness\, but to celebrate the diversity and resilience of their own culture amongst the hundreds of Indigenous cultures that still call Turtle Island home. In addition to their solo practice\, Melody is an in-demand collaborator and composer and plays drums with Indigenous hip-hop fusion band Red Slam Collective\, and has collaborated with Polaris Music Prize-winner Lido Pimienta\, toured with iskwé and composed string arrangements for Lakota Hip Hop artist Frank Waln.\nWebsite: www.melodymckiver.com\nTwitter: @melodymckiver\nInstagram: @melodymckivermusic\n \n• Chloe Alexandra • (Portland\, OR)\nChloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree\, Canadian artist and curator\, living and working in Portland\, Oregon. Using Pure Data\, Arduino\, hardware and voice\, Thompson creates unique sonic experiences and expressions through the spatialization of isolated frequencies.\nThompson’s work has been shown at Unity Gain: High Density Loudspeaker Array\, Corridor (Seattle)\, Quiet City w/ Merzbow & Balázs Pándi (Vancouver\, BC)\, Littman and White Galleries\, Compliance Division\, Bronco Gallery\, and Variform Gallery. She has also presented in collaborations for Converge45\, Disjecta\, Out of Sight (Seattle)\, PICA T:BA:17\, SIX for Subharmonic: A Music and Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA)\, and Nationale. Thompson has given lectures and workshops at T:BA:17 Institute in dialogue with Tanya Tagaq\, Subharmonic Workshop (PICA) with France Jobin and Burke Jam\, Open Signal\, home school pdx\, Portland State University\, and PNCA as guest faculty. Thompson’s written work has also been featured in publications including Art in America\, Zero Cool\, Provision\, Cig Thesis\, and Blankstairs.\nhttps://soundcloud.com/chloe-alexandra-6/corridorroomquick\n \n• Chivengi •\nChivengi is a singer\, songwriter and self defined reimagined black male identity. R&B inspired sounds and melodramatic melodies could define the 19 year old artist’s musical style.\nMusic: SoundCloud.com/Chivengi\nInstagram: Instagram.com/chivengi\n \n• Bá Ra •\nBá Ra uses voice\, wine glasses and synthesizers to communicate with the body through oscillation\, rhythm and frequency as a practice of study and healing. As a chronically ill femme from a mixed immigrant background\, Bá Ra studies the body as a vessel of frequency\, existing outside of capitalist structures and attune to the waveforms of the cosmos\, that speaks to the intergenerational stories held in our bodies.\nhttps://barasound.bandcamp.com/\nInstagram: @bb.boris.b\n \nReading from their upcoming creative non-fiction collection\, nîtisânak:\n \n• Lindsay Nixon •\nLindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator\, award-nominated editor\, award-nominated writer and McGill Art History Ph.D. student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak\, an independent art\, art criticism and literature journal\, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review\, Room\, GUTS\, Mice\, esse\, The Inuit Art Quarterly\, Teen Vogue and other publications. Their forthcoming creative non-fiction collection\, nîtisânak\, is to be released in September 2018 through Metonymy Press.\n \nSlut Island Festival acknowledges that it takes place on stolen land\, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tio’tia:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka\, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations\, including the Algonquin peoples. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/slut-island-featuring-lindsay-nixon-others/ LOCATION:Loyola Chapel\, 7141 Sherbrooke W.\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/04_July22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180508T232549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180511T175448Z UID:23830-1527328800-1527354000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2018 DESCRIPTION:Get your Metonymy Press books at this year’s Anarchist Bookfair! We’ll be there Saturday\, May 26.\n \nMark your calendars …\nMONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2018\n \nTwo days: Saturday\, May 26 & Sunday\, May 27\nFrom 10am to 5pm on both days\n \nThe Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet:\n– Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA)\, 2515 rue Delisle\n– Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV)\, 2450 rue Workman\nA short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro.\n \nNo gods\, no masters\, no bosses\, no borders.\nFREE. Welcome to all!\nFor anarchists\, and people curious about anarchism.\n \n-> Participants from all over Quebec and North America\, booksellers and vendors\, workshops\, films\, discussions\, kids’ activities\, art exhibits and more!\n-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy held throughout May 2017 at venues and locations all over the island of Montreal.\n \nCONTACT INFORMATION:\n-> e-mail: info@anarchistbookfair.ca\n-> mail: Salon du livre Anarchiste de Montréal\n1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Suite 204\nMontréal\, Québec H3G 1N1\n \nFOR UPDATES:\n-> web: www.anarchistbookfair.ca\n-> announcements list: https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/salon-annonces\n \nSOCIAL MEDIA:\n-> facebook: www.facebook.com/SalonduLivreAnarchisteMontrealAnarchistBookfair\n-> twitter: @BookfairAnarMTL URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/montreal-anarchist-bookfair-2018/ LOCATION:CEDA\, 2515 rue Delisle\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/anarchist-bookfair-montreal-e1526061109591.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180518T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180518T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20180508T231839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T231839Z UID:23821-1526673600-1526679000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:A Broken Books reading night! DESCRIPTION:jia qing wilson-yang\, Eva Crocker\, and Daze Jefferies \nat Broken Books\, in St. John’s\, NL \nMay 18\, 8 pm URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/a-broken-books-reading-night/ LOCATION:Broken Books\, 245 Duckworth St\, St. John's\, NL\, A1C 1G3\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20171101T213135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T154859Z UID:23615-1511611200-1511715600@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:2017 AELAQ Holiday Pop-up Fair DESCRIPTION:The Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair encourages booklovers of all ages and interests to browse\, buy\, and get books signed\, just in time for holiday gift-giving. Expect hundreds of new titles for sale\, including fiction\, non-fiction\, poetry\, books for kids\, award-winners and bestsellers.\n \nSaturday Nov 25\,12-6 PM\nSunday Nov 26\, 11-5 PM\nAt Le Café in the Monument-National\, 1182 Boulevard St. Laurent\n***new accessible location! Wheelchair and stroller-friendly***\n \nHighlights:\n \nFestive Wine and Cheese\, Saturday Nov 25\, 4-6 p.m.\, with Kathleen Winter. Come meet Governor General’s Literary Award-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter at the Book Fair wine and cheese\, and help us raise a glass to local lit! Sponsored by Penguin Random House Canada.\n \nTundra Books 50th Anniversary Celebration\, Saturday Nov 25\, 4-6 p.m. During our wine & cheese\, fair-goers of all ages will have the chance to toast the 50th anniversary of Tundra Books\, publisher of Roch Carrier’s iconic The Hockey Sweater. Birthday cake will be served! Sponsored by Livres Babar Books.\n \nRapid-Fire Reading\, Ricochet Writing: mRbilia Edition\, Sunday Nov 26\, 2-3 p.m. 20 writers celebrate 20 years of the Montreal Review of Books in a fast-paced reading and writing bonanza! Sponsored by Maisonneuve.\n \nLocal publishers include: McGill-Queen’s University Press\, Linda Leith Publishing – Linda Leith Éditions\, Véhicule Press\, Metatron\, DC Books\, Metonymy Press\, Black Rose Books\, Shoreline Press\, Longbridge Books\, Baraka Books / QCfiction\, The Secret Mountain and more.\n \nWriters who will be present to meet\, greet\, and sign books include:\n \nKathleen Winter\, Sylvain Neuvel\, Jocelyn Parr\, Bonnie Farmer\, Ariela Freedman\, Guillaume Morissette\, Greg Santos\, Lorina Mapa\, Alex Manley\, Sherry Simon\, Gillian Sze\, Jonah Campbell\, Trevor Ferguson\, Mary Soderstrom\, Bill Haugland\, Licia Canton\, Larissa Andrusyshyn\, Carolyn Marie Souaid\, John Kalbfleisch\, Claire Holden Rothman\, Karen Nesbitt\, Lazer Lederhendler\, and many more!\n \nThe Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair is grateful for the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage\, as well as that of the Montreal Gazette\, Penguin Random House Canada\, Babar Books\, Tundra Books\, Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, the Montreal Review of Books\, and all of our sponsoring publishers: Baraka Books/QC Fiction; Longbridge Books; Véhicule Press; McGill-Queen’s University Press; DC Books; The Secret Mountain.\n \nLe Café is located on the ground floor of the Monument-National and is wheelchair-accessible. There are separate multi-stall male and female washrooms\, and a single-stall gender-neutral wheelchair-accessible washroom.\n \nLe Café is a short walk from metro Saint-Laurent and Place d’Armes and is on the #55 bus line. Parking is available behind the SAT\, and at Place Desjardins. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/aelaq-holiday-pop-fair/ LOCATION:Le Café in the Monument-National\, 1182 Boulevard St. Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017-aelaq-fair.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20171101T212255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T212442Z UID:23611-1510500600-1510506000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Naked Heart 2017: I Am Not Your Hero (The Politics of a "Public" Image) DESCRIPTION:What happens when authors find themselves as public figures? How does someone navigate expectations\, pressure\, symbolism and responsibility that they did not choose? How is this healing and harm?\n \nA Panel Discussion with\n \nAMBER DAWN\nJES SACHSE\nKAI CHENG THOM\nMONA MOUSA\n \n$5 or FREE with a Naked Heart Festival Pass\n \nASL will be provided at this event. The space and washrooms are wheelchair accessible. We request that you do not wear any scents to this event. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/naked-heart-2017-not-hero-politics-public-image/ LOCATION:Buddies in Bad Times Theatre\, 12 Alexander Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nakedheart-2017-panel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20171101T211525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T211645Z UID:23607-1510426800-1510432200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Naked Heart 2017: Bricolage DESCRIPTION:“Bricolage\, n. construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.” A little bit of anything and everything from a mix of authors.\n \nCASEY PLETT\nFAYE CHISHOLM GUENTHER\nJIAQING WILSON-YANG\nMICHAELA WASHBURN\nNINA NESSETH\nTROY JACKSON\n \n$5 or FREE with a Naked Heart Festival Pass\n \nLocation to be confirmed soon. The event space will be wheelchair accessible. We request that you do not wear any scents to this event. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/naked-heart-2017-bricolage/ LOCATION:Quebec ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nakedheart-2017-reading.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171111T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171111T183000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20171101T210935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T211124Z UID:23603-1510420500-1510425000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Naked Heart 2017: Seizing/dismantling gender/genre DESCRIPTION:Writers who dismantle\, disrupt\, dispute\, reclaim\, resist and recreate gender across genre.\n \nA reading featuring:\n \nHEATH V. SALAZAR\nJIN HARITAWORN\nKRISTEN RINGMAN\nMEGAN MILKS\nTOM CHO\nTRISH SALAH\n \n$5 or FREE with a Naked Heart Festival Pass\n \nASL is planned for this event.\n \nThe event space and washrooms are wheelchair accessible. We request that you do not wear any scents to this event. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/naked-heart-2017/ LOCATION:Buddies in Bad Times Theatre\, 12 Alexander Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nakedheart-2017-reading.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170823T164500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170824T184942Z UID:23485-1505590200-1505597400@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Ottawa launch of Trish Salah's Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 DESCRIPTION:Chances are you’ve read Trish’s poetry that “makes a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized” (Michael V. Smith). Drawing on personal history and theory\, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives\, her lyric and language poetry has been your summer reading\, we hope.\n \nMetonymy’s edition of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (originally published in the US by Roof Books in 2014) includes a new cover design by artists Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li as well as some new poems. This\, combined with Trish’s always thoughtful stage presence\, means you won’t want to miss this event.\n \nTrish will be joined by local writers natalie hanna and Faizal Deen.\n \nFree admission. All are welcome.\n \nAbout the readers:\n \nBorn in Halifax\, Trish Salah is the author of Wanting in Arabic (TSAR 2002\, 2013) and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof 2014\, Metonymy 2017) and co-editor of special issues of Canadian Review of American Studies 35.2 (2005) and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4 (2014). The 2013 edition of Wanting in Arabic won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. At the University of Winnipeg she organized the conferences Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres. Currently an assistant professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University\, she is a member of the editorial boards of TSQ\, Eoagh\, and Topia.\n \nFaizal Deen is a Guyanese poet & scholar. Adopted into Canada by an abusive White parent\, his work focuses primarily on themes of representational violence & the politics of beauty. He lives in Ottawa with Sabrina\, a cocker spaniel. He is the author of The Greatest Films\, and A Land without Chocolate.\n \nNatalie Hanna is a queer Ottawa lawyer of Middle Eastern heritage\, whose writing focusses on feminist\, political\, and personal themes. She runs battleaxe (small) press\, is the Administrative Director of the Sawdust Reading Series\, and serves as newsletter editor and board member at Arc Poetry Magazine. Her work has appeared with above/ground press\, in/words\, and phafours press\, among others. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/ottawa-launch-trish-salahs-lyric-sexology-vol-1/ LOCATION:Venus Envy Ottawa\, 226 Bank Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K2P 1X1\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/trish-cropped-for-fb-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170819T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170819T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170803T151940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T151940Z UID:23431-1503165600-1503172800@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Montreal launch: Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (new edition) DESCRIPTION:[Part of Pervers/cité 2017]\nAfter you’ve had a chance to check out the Salon du livre Queer entre les couvertures/QBTC book fair 2017\, stroll down Ste. Catherine Street to L’Euguélionne\, librairie féministe for the Montreal launch of poet Trish Salah’s new edition of LYRIC SEXOLOGY VOL. 1. \nChances are you’ve read Trish’s poetry that “makes a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized” (Michael V. Smith). Drawing on personal history and theory\, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives\, her lyric and language poetry will be your summer reading\, we hope. \nMetonymy’s edition (originally published in the US by Roof Books in 2014) includes a new cover design by local artists Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li as well as some new poems. This\, combined with Trish’s always thoughtful stage presence\, means you won’t want to miss this event. \nTrish will be joined by local writers Oliver Pickle and Eli Tareq Lynch. \nFree admission. All are welcome. \nThere is a wheelchair accessible entrance to the store through the back. All information concerning venue accessiblity is available here. \nAbout the authors: \nBorn in Halifax\, Trish Salah is the author of Wanting in Arabic (TSAR 2002\, 2013) and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof 2014\, Metonymy 2017) and co-editor of special issues of Canadian Review of American Studies 35.2 (2005) and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4 (2014). The 2013 edition of Wanting in Arabic won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. At the University of Winnipeg she organized the conferences Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres. Currently an assistant professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University\, she is a member of the editorial boards of TSQ\, Eoagh\, and Topia. \nOliver Pickle is a Montreal-based\, trans-identified writer\, publisher\, and editor. They are the author of Metonymy Press’ first book\, She Is Sitting in the Night: Re-visioning Thea’s Tarot. Their work has also appeared in the Lambda Award–winning The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press\, 2012) and make/shift magazine\, among other publications. Oliver released Gays in the Workplace in 2011 and is currently working on a book of short stories. \nEli Tareq Lynch is a Montreal-based Arab poet. They have work upcoming in THEM\, Prism International\, the Shade Journal\, and in Frog Hollow Press’ City Series Chapbook (MTL edition). They are currently working on launching a Montreal-based queer journal without a name and are generally a happy person unless you catch them before 10am. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/montreal-launch-lyric-sexology-vol-1-new-edition/ LOCATION:Quebec ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Trish-Another-Story-e1501773565672.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170816T193000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170615T161241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T150929Z UID:23305-1502904600-1502911800@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:The Violet Hour\, feat. Trish Salah DESCRIPTION:An evening of short readings and performances by LGBTQ writers and musicians. Featuring: Sarah Gibson\, Mark Andrew Hamilton\, Mike Miksche\, Ricky Leach\, Sarah Pinder\, Trish Salah and a performance by Jonathan from the Montreal production of Naked Boys Singing. \nHost: Christopher DiRaddo\nDoors: 5:30 PM / Interview: 6 PM (sharp) \nThis event is an official part of Fierté Montréal’s Literary Pride 2017 series. Although a free event\, we will be collecting donations for Blue Metropolis Literary Foundation’s LGBTQ programs. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/violet-hour-feat-trish-salah/ LOCATION:Stock Bar\, 1171 Ste Catherine East\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/violet-hour-pride-edition.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170714T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170615T160330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170705T212911Z UID:23302-1500058800-1500064200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Toronto launch: Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (new edition) DESCRIPTION:Join Toronto-based poet Trish Salah for the launch of the new Canadian edition of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1. \nChances are you’ve read Salah’s poetry that “makes a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized” (Michael V. Smith). Drawing on personal history and theory\, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives\, Salah’s lyric and language poetry will be your summer reading\, we hope. \nTrish will be accompanied by writers jia qing wilson-yang\, Margaret Christakos\, and Lukayo Estrella. \nThe readings will be followed by a book signing. Beverages and snacks will be served. \nAnother Story’s entrance is wheelchair accessible but their gender-neutral washroom is down one flight of stairs. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/toronto-launch-lyric-sexology-vol-1-new-edition/ LOCATION:Another Story Book Shop\, 315 Roncesvalles Ave\, Toronto\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LyricSexologyCover-e1497542681246.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170711T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170705T213516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170705T213700Z UID:23352-1499799600-1499806800@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Halifax launch of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (new edition) DESCRIPTION:This collection of lyric poetry draws on personal history and theory\, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives\, to “make a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized” (Michael V. Smith). The 2017 edition features four new poems and a new cover design by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. \nTrish Salah says “Lyric Sexology came from wanting to stage new encounters with the archives of trans-formative discourses …. Lyric Sexology does affective work\, and politically motivated and strategic dis-identificatory work\, but it is also about allowing those archives to pose questions of this moment\, these subjects we’ve become – are becoming. It is\, for all that it slips regularly into lyric impersonation\, also a procedural engagement with\, or discourse analysis of\, trans genre figure(s) within sexological\, psychoanalytic\, feminist\, anthropological and biographical archives.” \nBorn in Halifax\, Trish Salah is the author of Wanting in Arabic (TSAR 2002\, 2013) and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof 2014\, Metonymy 2017) and co-editor of special issues of Canadian Review of American Studies 35.2 (2005) and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4 (2014). The 2013 edition of Wanting in Arabic won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. At the University of Winnipeg she organized the conferences Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres. Currently an assistant professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University\, she is a member of the editorial boards of TSQ\, Eoagh\, and Topia. \nTrish Salah will be joined by Anna Quon! \nAnna Quon is a middle-aged\, mixed-race Mad woman; a novelist and poet\, currently working on her third novel and first book length poetry collection; a temporarily physically disabled bus rider\, a cat sitter\, and a budding visual artist and filmmaker\, and a Baha’i. She currently lives in Dartmouth. \nAnna’s first novel\, Migration Songs\, was released by Invisible Publishing in 2009\, and her second novel\, Low exists in print (thanks to the same blessed company) from the Spring of 2013. Anna has also self-published two chapbooks of poetry\, Poems for 4 Seasons and Half Empty\, and three poetry zines. \nEvent Access Notes: This event will be held at Venus Envy\, 1598 Barrington St. Venus Envy can be accessed by wheelchair\, but unfortunately\, our (gender-neutral) bathroom cannot. There is a public\, wheelchair accessible bathroom at Starbucks\, next door. \nWe sell scented products\, so we cannot guarantee that our space is accessible for all folks with scent sensitivities. But we do ask that guests refrain from wearing scented products please! \nIf anyone would like sign language interpretation to be provided at this event\, please contact Christine at christine@venusenvy.ca and she will make that happen! URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/halifax-launch-lyric-sexology-vol-1/ LOCATION:Venus Envy Halifax\, 1589 Barrington Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J1Z6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LyricSexologyCover-e1497542681246.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170622T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170615T155129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T155735Z UID:23293-1498158000-1498163400@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Trish Salah & Friends: Hamilton Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Trish Salah returns to Hamilton for the launch of the Canadian edition of Lyric Sexology\, Volume 1. \nJoining her are 2017 Lambda Award finalists jia qing wilson-yang (winner of best trans fiction) and Kai Cheng Thom. \nWhere: The Reading Room at Bryan Prince Bookseller – 1060 King Street West. \nFree\, but seating is limited. \nThe venue is an accessible space. \nThis event is presented in partnership with Metonymy Press; Bent Q Media; Queer Outta Hamilton and Hamilton Pride. \nLyric Sexology\, Vol 1: The first-ever Canadian edition\, with four additional poems and a new introduction. Written between lyric and language poetries\, and exploring the transgender fantasies encoded in feminist\, autobiographical\, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives. \n  \nDrawing upon Freud’s interpretation of the memoirs of the jurist Daniel Paul Schreber\, alongside gender theories\, polemics and case studies dating from the end of the 20th century to beginning of the 21st\, Trish Salah samples and remixes the clinic and the club\, dystopia and draughty apartments\, re-presenting an emergent transgender subject in all (or at least some) of her/hir/his/their messy contrariness and queerly multiple biomythographies. One might even call this composite a syncretic strategy for building a conceptual\, poetic world in a single volume. But\, inevitably\, more is left out than in. \n  \nTrish Salah is an Arab Canadian writer\, activist\, cultural critic\, and university professor. Her first volume of poetry\, Wanting in Arabic\, was published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and reissued in a new edition in 2013. Salah studied creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal\, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at York University in Toronto. She currently teaches in Gender Studies at Queen’s University. Her creative and scholarly work addresses transgender and transsexual politics and experience\, diasporic Arab identity and culture\, anti-racism\, queer politics and economic and social justice. Her poetry moves between and combines traditional and experimental forms. Trish received the Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction in 2014. \n  \nFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir is the highly sensational\, ultra-exciting\, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl\, pathological liar\, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own\, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock\, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being\, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered\, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes\, violent johns\, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong\, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. \n  \nKai Cheng Thom is the recipient of the Writers’ Trust 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers. She is a writer\, performance artist\, social worker\, fierce trans femme and notorious liar who loves lipstick and superhero cartoons. A prolific essayist and poet\, her work appears online in publications including BuzzFeed\, xoJane\, Everyday Feminism\, and Autostraddle; and in print in Asian American Literary Review\, Plenitude\, and Matrix Magazine\, among others. Her first collection of poetry\, a place called No Homeland\, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Spring 2017. As a spoken word artist\, she has appeared and featured at venues including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She is also a mental health community worker and co-founder of the collective Monster Academy: Mental Health Skills for Montreal Youth. Kai Cheng lives in Montreal and Toronto\, both of which were built on unceded Indigenous territory. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir is her first novel. Kai Cheng is a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction. \n  \nSmall Beauty tells the story of Mei\, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own\, learns about her aunt’s long-term secret relationship\, and reflects on the trans women she left behind. She also brushes up against some local trans mysteries and gets advice from departed loved ones with a lot to say. \n  \njia qing wilson-yang is a mixed race trans woman living in Toronto. She likes to write poems and stories and music. Her writing has appeared in Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet (ed. Simon Strikeback)\, Letters Lived: Radical Reflections\, Revolutionary Paths (ed. Sheila Sampath)\, and the women of colour issue of Room magazine. She has recorded several acoustic albums and this one time was a drummer in a pop punk band. Small Beauty is her first novel. jia qing is the winner of the 2017 Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction and received an Honour of Distinction from the 2016 Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers. \n  URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/trish-salah-friends-book-launch/ LOCATION:Bryan Prince Bookseller\, 1060 King Street W\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Salah-and-friends-poster-228x300.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T230000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170418T132846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T134227Z UID:23196-1494616500-1494630000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:jia qing wilson-yang at the Wakefield Writers Festival des écrivains La Pêche DESCRIPTION:Wakefield’s quirky and talented Sheena Beena Turcotte hosts the festival’s most audacious sCrawl to date. You are invited to partake of the rhythmic word images and musical landscapes of two of Canada’s best spoken word artists—Queen Ka and Ian Keteku—and the fresh insights of authors Jasmine Aziz and jia qing wilson-yang on sex and gender identity. \nWhen she’s on stage\, QUEEN KA embodies her texts with acid humor\, social commentary and young women’s desires. She improvises what she observes\, so come prepared for some dynamic and animated reflections. \nIf the pen is mightier than the sword IAN KETEKU is an everyday knight. An artist committed to using words as both an interpretation and cure for the human condition. He explores issues of race\, love and transcendence\, he explores the spectrum of human emotions through word and sound. \nJASMINE AZIZ will stimulate the audience with readings from Sex and Samosas (which she wrote after a successful “Bollywood Bachelorette” career selling adult novelty toys)\, and the soon-to-be-published Bring Your Own Batteries: Memoirs of a Retired Vibrator Seller. \nA writer of spare prose and thought-provoking poetry\, JIA QING WILSON-YANG will be reading selections from her novel Small Beauty\, as well as from newer works exploring race\, colonization\, gender\, and trauma. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/jia-qing-wilson-yang-wakefield-writers-festival-des-ecrivains-la-peche/ LOCATION:Kaffé 1870\, 715 Riverside\, Wakefield\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WakefieldWritersFest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T121500 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170313T131453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T131948Z UID:22984-1494068400-1494072900@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Kai Cheng Thom at the Festival of Literary Diversity DESCRIPTION:FOLD’s mission is to create a vibrant community of readers and writers by celebrating diverse authors and literature in Brampton\, Ontario – one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities. \nKai Cheng Thom is featured on a panel called WONDER WOMEN: \nThey fight injustice\, obliterate boundaries\, and/or defy expectations – bringing real and imagined worlds to life. Meet badass female characters and the writers who created them. Join Kai Cheng Thom\, M-E Girard and Sarah Raughley in conversation with Sheridan College Professor and Bluegate Reading Series coordinator Shoilee Khan in a power-packed panel all about women warriors in literature. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/kai-cheng-thom-festival-literary-diversity/ LOCATION:Peel Art Gallery\, Museum + Archives\, 9 Wellington St. E\, Brampton\, Ontario\, L6W 1Y1\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kaichengFOLD-e1489411109963.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170418T125324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T125324Z UID:26819-1493404200-1493411400@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Kai Cheng Thom at the Blue Metropolis Festival DESCRIPTION:Metonymy author Kai Cheng Thom will make two appearances at Montreal’s 2017 Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.\nFriday\, April 28 at Stock Bar (doors open at 6:30pm): \nAn evening of short readings by queer writers appearing at this year’s Blue Met. \nFeaturing Rachel Amey\, Peter Dubé\, Sky Gilbert\, Harry Giles\, Catherine Hernandez\, and Kai Cheng Thom. \nFree \nSaturday\, April 29 at Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke St. W.) at 10am: \nThe Past Inside the Present: Queer Writers Contemplate the Future \nThree LGBTQ writers reflect on the role that the past plays in their work\, looking at our origin stories through the prism of the present and addressing the concerns of an uncertain future. \nFeaturing Nick Comilla\, Ann-Marie MacDonald\, and Kai Cheng Thom. \nThis event costs $10 if you don’t have a festival pass.  URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/kai-cheng-thom-blue-metropolis-festival-2/ LOCATION:Stock Bar\, 1171 Ste Catherine East\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bluemet.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20170426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170426T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170418T123613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T123613Z UID:26818-1493233200-1493238600@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Vancouver launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars DESCRIPTION:Author Kai Cheng Thom returns to her hometown to launch her Lambda Literary Award–nominated debut novel\, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. The author will read from her new book and sign copies which will be available for sale. \nKai Cheng will be joined by special guest\, Kama La Mackerel. \nThom’s book is the highly sensational\, ultra-exciting\, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl\, pathological liar\, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own\, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock\, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being\, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered\, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes\, violent johns\, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong\, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. \nThis is a free event. Spartacus Books is wheelchair accessible. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/vancouver-launch-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars-2/ LOCATION:Spartacus Books\, 3378 Findlay Street\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5N4E7\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gladday2-e1492518963783.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170119T210202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T122519Z UID:22895-1488654000-1488661200@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Halifax launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars DESCRIPTION:Book Launch! Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom \nFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir is the highly sensational\, ultra-exciting\, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl\, pathological liar\, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own\, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. \nUnder the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock\, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being\, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered\, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes\, violent johns\, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong\, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/halifax-launch-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars/ LOCATION:Venus Envy Halifax\, 1589 Barrington Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J1Z6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gladday2-e1492518963783.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170211T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170211T163000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20170119T203134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T203134Z UID:26815-1486823400-1486830600@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Kingston book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars DESCRIPTION:Book Launch! Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/kingston-book-launch-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars-2/ LOCATION:AKA Autonomous Social Centre\, 75 Queen Street\, Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fierce-femmes-final.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="AKA Autonomous Social Centre":MAILTO:germinations@riseup.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161212T024216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T024216Z UID:26814-1484249400-1484254800@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Ottawa book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars DESCRIPTION:(More info to come) \nFor those of you in Ottawa\, kick off 2017 with Kai Cheng Thom’s launch of her first novel\, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. \nVenus Envy Ottawa\, beginning at 7:30pm. \nBook reading and signing on site. \nThis venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/ottawa-book-launch-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars-2/ LOCATION:Venus Envy Ottawa\, 226 Bank Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K2P 1X1\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gladday2-e1492518963783.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161218T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161219T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161212T022852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T022852Z UID:26813-1482057000-1482183000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Cagibi craft fair DESCRIPTION:Metonymy will be tabling at the Marché au cagibi craft fair again this year. Tarot readings & book hawking & cute crafters and snacks! And to make it more perfect\, Montreal’s own Forever Chorus will be performing Sunday evening. See you there? \nlocal vendors\, espace radicale.\n*With a performance by the FOREVER CHORUS AT 8pm Sunday* \nHOURS:\n10.30am-9.30pm dimanche/Sunday\n4pm-9.30pm lundi/Monday \nFeaturing local vendors: \nHeather Hardie\nSarah Ayton\nPamela Hart\nDani Straughan\nZoe Stonyk\nMetonymy press\nDanielle Houston\nBecca love\nBlueberry jams\nMagdalena Hutter\nClaire hurtig \nconfitures\, Jewellery\, confections\, crystals\, accessories\, art\, tote bags\, children’s books\, knit and textiles\, natural products\, vintage! Cadeaux pour tout le monde! \nAccessibility: \nLe cagibi is on the ground floor\, there is a step 3 inches to get into the back room where fair is. There is an accessible bathroom. The room will however be quite full but we will maintain wheelchair accessibility to the washroom and front room where you can buy from le Cagibi’s regular service. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/cagibi-craft-fair-2/ LOCATION:Le Cagibi\, 6596 Blvd. St Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S3C6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/15439771_1183937311693751_3344877834697106442_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161126T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161108T004737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161108T004737Z UID:26810-1480186800-1480194000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Montreal launch of Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars DESCRIPTION:Join us in launching Kai Cheng Thom’s first novel\, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. The author will read from her new book and sign copies which will be available for sale. \nFood and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. \nWheelchair accessible entrance; wheelchair accessible and all-gender washrooms. \nThom’s book is the highly sensational\, ultra-exciting\, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl\, pathological liar\, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own\, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock\, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being\, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered\, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes\, violent johns\, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong\, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/montreal-launch-kai-cheng-thoms-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars-2/ LOCATION:La Maisonnette des Parents\, 6651 Bldv St Laurent\, Montreal\, QC\, H2S 3C5\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fierce-femmes-final.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161125T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161126T160000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161108T005819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161108T005819Z UID:26811-1480086000-1480176000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair DESCRIPTION:It’s the second edition of the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair! \nPresented by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec\, the Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, and the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, this book fair brings together dozens of English-Quebec publishers and writers for a holiday bookstravaganza. Meet local authors\, hear them read from their work\, browse hundreds of books\, buy a few and get them signed–just in time for holiday gift-giving. \nBrowse all day:\nNovember 25th 3-8 PM\nNovember 26th 10-4 PM \nSpecial events: \nFriday\n3:30-4:30: Mystery Loves Company: Three mystery authors read from their work\n5-7: Festive Fair Launch featuring Aislin (Terry Mosher). Come raise a glass to local lit! Meet and mingle with writers and publishers. Wine and cheese will be served. Sponsored by Penguin-Random House. \nSaturday\n10-11 AM: Children’s Corner: Readings and activities for kids\n12-4: Readings by local authors \nFULL READING SCHEDULE AND LIST OF READERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON \nParticipating publishers: Linda Leith Publishing – Linda Leith Éditions\, Véhicule Press\, McGill-Queen’s University Press\, The Secret Mountain\, Howard Gontovnick\, Metatron\, Baraka Books/ QCfiction\, Longbridge Books\, Nan-Pat-Vic\, Metonymy Press\, DC Books\, Shoreline Press\, BookThug\, Cormorant Books\, House of Anansi Press\, Coach House Books\, Anvil Press\, Arbeiter Ring Publishing\, Signature\, and more! URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/holiday-pop-book-fair-2/ LOCATION:Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater\, Montreal\, QC\, H3Z1X4\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/holidaybookfair.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161113T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161113T131500 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161112T005537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161112T005537Z UID:26812-1479038400-1479042900@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:East Asian Writers on Love\, Sex & Gender DESCRIPTION:Panel – EAST ASIAN WRITERS ON LOVE\, SEX & GENDER \nCatherine Hernandez\nDora Ng\njia qing wilson-yang\nTerence Go \n$5 or FREE with a Naked Heart Festival pass \nThe space and washrooms are wheelchair accessible. \nThis event is part of the Naked Heart Festival. The Naked Heart Festival is the world’s largest LGBTQ literary festival and is organized by Glad Day Lit. Check out the whole Festival program. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/east-asian-writers-love-sex-gender-2/ LOCATION:The 519\, 519 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y2C6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nakedheart_facebookheader1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161111T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161111T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100153 CREATED:20161107T225001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161107T225001Z UID:26809-1478892600-1478898000@metonymypress.com SUMMARY:Toronto Launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom DESCRIPTION:As part of the second annual Naked Heart LGBTQ Festival of Words\, we are pleased to announce the inaugural launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir. \nJoin us for readings from the author as well as jia qing wilson-yang\, Gwen Benaway and Joie Lamar. \nThis event is free and the venue is wheelchair accessible. URL:https://metonymypress.com/event/toronto-launch-fierce-femmes-notorious-liars-kai-cheng-thom-2/ LOCATION:Glad Day Bookshop\, 499 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y2C6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nakedheart_facebookheader1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR