Maybe you’ve heard? Metonymy has a call for submissions: Gay Book Lovers Unite.
More details here, and please get in touch with us here or at 1-438-338-4591 with any questions.
We encourage QTBIPOC writers and those whose perspectives and experiences are underrepresented in publishing to submit a section of a manuscript by April 14.
But for now, we’d like to take a moment to acquaint you with the jury!
They are four people who have in one way or another participated in Metonymy’s celebrations and creations, and we think they’re just great. Most importantly, they promote, produce, critique, or otherwise engage with storytelling and literature from the peripheries.
We trust that they’ll choose writing that is powerful and real and that speaks to them and, we imagine, many of us.
We are pleased to introduce the readers:
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- Gwen Benaway, who is of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. An emerging Two-Spirited Trans poet, she has been described as the spiritual love child of Tomson Highway and Anne Sexton.
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- Kama La Mackerel, a tio’tia:ke/Montreal-based writer, poet, performer, curator and story-teller whose favourite things in life include friends, community, food, tea and a whole lot of poetry!
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- Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, a mixed race trans writer and musician living in Toronto.
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- Helen Chau Bradley, a bookseller, musician, and avid reader living and working in tio’tia:ke/Montreal.