Junction. Reads with Jules Delorme, Aaron Kreuter and daniel sarah karasik

Junction Reads is an online reading series that offers one on one conversations and readings with authors of great prose.

Junction Reads

Readings and a Q and A with three fantastic authors (live-streamed from TYPE Books Junction).

Registering here will get you access to the live-stream of our event at TYPE Books Junction. Registering will also save you the time paying at the door. Paying whatever amount you can will also get you a raffle ticket or two, or three...I hope you'll join us for readings from <a href="https://gooselane.com/products/i-heard-a-crow-before-i-was-born" title="https://gooselane.com/products/i-heard-a-crow-before-i-was-born" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jules Delorme</a>, <a href="https://aaronkreuter.com/" title="https://aaronkreuter.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Aaron Kreuter</a> and <a href="https://danielkarasik.com/bio/" title="https://danielkarasik.com/bio/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">daniel sarah karasik.</a>Jules Delorme is a neurodivergent Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) author who grew up on the Akwesasne Reserve near Cornwall, Ontario and now makes his home in Toronto. He is of Kanien’kehá:ka and French heritage.From <a href="https://gooselane.com/products/i-heard-a-crow-before-i-was-born" title="https://gooselane.com/products/i-heard-a-crow-before-i-was-born" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Goose Lane Editions</a>, i heard a crow before i was born is a "stunning testament to the power of storytelling — to help us grieve and help us survive — Delorme tells the story of his spirit walk as he embraces the contradictions of his identity. As he writes, “i heard a crow before i was born is a man looking back, and dreaming back, and seeing that life, in whatever form it takes, however harsh it might seem, is beautiful.” It is Delorme’s third book.Aaron Kreuter is the author of five books (soon to be six), including the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award shortlisted poetry collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome. A fiction writer, a poet and an academic, he lives in Toronto and teaches at Trent University.From <a href="https://ualbertapress.ca/author/aaron-kreuter/" title="https://ualbertapress.ca/author/aaron-kreuter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Alberta Press</a>, Rubble Children contains seven-and-a-half interlinked stories, that tackle "Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Engaging, funny, dark, surprising, Rubble Children is a scream of Jewish rage, a smoky exhalation of Jewish joy, a vivid dream of better worlds."daniel sarah karasik is an organizer, restorative justice-based facilitator and the author of drama, poetry and fiction that includes two poetry collections, Plenitude and Hungry, and the short story collection Faithful and Other Stories. They live in Toronto.From <a href="https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/daniel-sarah-karasik/disobedience-by-daniel-sarah-karasik/" title="https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/daniel-sarah-karasik/disobedience-by-daniel-sarah-karasik/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Book*hug Press</a>, their latest is a debut novel is "a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us." "Disobedience asks: How can a community redress harm without reproducing unaccountable forms of violence? How do we heal? What might a compassionate, sustainable model of justice look like?"

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