The Exile Writers Series ~ December 18, 2022

An afternoon of five authors reading. Free Admission.

1:00-4:00 (kitchen opens at 1:00) – come early to enjoy a bite and drink and friendly conversation…Readings begin 2:15.

Supermarket Restaurant: 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto (in Kensington Market: half block south of College Street TTC).

Kate Story launches her November collection of short fiction Ferry Back the Gifts.

Jirair “Jerry” Tutunjian reads from his article on the Armenian genocide: Convent of Cypresses, A Hill of Bones – a major feature section in EXILE Quarterly 45.1

Gord Grisenthwaite, Nathan Adler, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith read from their stories in Bawaajigan (an Indigenous-authored anthology about dream stories, and stories of power).

All books: $20 / Anthologies-other books: $10 / ELQ: $10 – purchases cash only.

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Kate Story’s Ferry Back the Gifts features a variety of works that first appeared in the Exile Editions Book of… Anthology Series – all of which will be available at the launch:

“Animate” first appeared in Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, edited by Bruce Meyer.

“Where the Seas Roll Up Their Thunder” first appeared in Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay.

“Show and Tell” first appeared in Playground of Lost Toys, edited by Colleen Anderson and Ursula Pflug.

“Martinis, My Dear, Are Dangerous” first appeared in Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins, edited by Derek Newman-Stille.

“Ferry Back the Gifts” first appeared in Food of My People, edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug.

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We will also have at our books table Exile’s 2022 releases Wapke (the first Indigenous-authored science fiction collection of stories from Quebec) and The Chronicles of Kitchke (a series of linked stories-as-novel), as well as Exile’s 2020 anthology of Innu stories, Amun.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial contributions from the Government of Canada – which includes the Special Measures to Support Journalism component for the Canada Periodical Fund, and the Canada Book Fund – as well as the Canada Arts Council, toward our December 2022 through March 31 2023 author & book events.

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