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Join us for a very special book launch to celebrate 4 books that have come out during the last 3 years.𝓕𝓔𝓐𝓣𝓤𝓡𝓘𝓝𝓖:Lee Suksi (TORONTO) launching <a href="https://metatron.press/shop/the-nerves/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Nerves</a> (2020)Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch launching <a href="https://metatron.press/shop/knot-body/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">knot body</a> (2020)Trynne Delaney launching <a href="https://metatron.press/shop/the-half-drowned/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the half-drowned</a> (2022)Jayson Keery (PHILADELPHIA) launching <a href="https://metatron.press/shop/the-choice-is-real/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Choice Is Real </a>(2023)+﻿ Special Guests: LA Warman (BROOKLYN) and a sonic meditation from Bára HladíkTickets: $8Doors: 7:30pmReadings: 8:00pm𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓑𝓞𝓞𝓚𝓢 𝓦𝓔 𝓐𝓡𝓔 𝓛𝓐𝓤𝓝𝓒𝓗𝓘𝓝𝓖𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝒞𝐻𝒪𝐼𝒞𝐸 𝐼𝒮 𝑅𝐸𝒜𝐿 𝐵𝒴 𝒥𝒜𝒴𝒮𝒪𝒩 𝒦𝐸𝐸𝑅𝒴Challenging the conventions of how queer and trans people are encouraged to tell their stories, The Choice is Real engages the concept of choice in queerness and trivializes the linear “born-this-way” narratives that queer people are sold. In response to a second puberty brought on by medical transition and an unravelling of family structures following the death of their stepmother, Keery regresses through a warped and foreboding childhood landscape saturated with pop culture iconography. Writing with and against Disney classics, Keery moves between formative memories and contemporary moments, weaving in accounts of current relations in their playful uprooting of assumptions of queer relationality. Opening with a cheeky epigraph from trans author and activist Lou Sullivan: “I love being a girl. So delicate,” The Choice is Real explodes with celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine perspective.𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝐻𝒜𝐿𝐹-𝒟𝑅𝒪𝒲𝒩𝐸𝒟 𝐵𝒴 𝒯𝑅𝒴𝒩𝒩𝐸 𝒟𝐸𝐿𝒜𝒩𝐸𝒴the half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire, Delaney builds a glittering, speculative world where community holds through grief, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard.the half-drowned was the winner of the Concordia University First Book Prize at The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards in 2022.𝒦𝒩𝒪𝒯 𝐵𝒪𝒟𝒴 𝐵𝒴 𝐸𝐿𝐼 𝒯𝒜𝑅𝐸𝒬 𝐸𝐿 𝐵𝐸𝒞𝐻𝐸𝐿𝒜𝒩𝒴-𝐿𝒴𝒩𝒞𝐻Bringing together poetry, essay, and letters to “lovers, friends and in-betweens,” Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch confronts the ways capitalism, fatphobia, ableism, transness, and racializations affect people with chronic pain, illness, and disability. knot body explores what it means to discover the limits of your body, and contends with what those limitations bring up in the world we live in.knot body was shortlisted for the QWF First Book Prize. Their second collection of poetry, The Good Arabs (Metonymy Press), won the 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal.𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝒩𝐸𝑅𝒱𝐸𝒮 𝐵𝒴 𝐿𝐸𝐸 𝒮𝒰𝒦𝒮𝐼The Nerves subverts the literary approach to sexuality by treating the erotic not as a site of anxiety but of reverie. Set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who we are, Lee Suksi’s literary debut is psychedelic, attentive, cinematic and hot. Writing toward sensitivity and ecstasy, exploring touch as healing abandon, The Nerves is charged with desire, devotion, and creative fantasy. Through a series of joyful encounters, Suksi reminds us that pleasure can be abundant, nuanced and that it can heal. Engaging in a queer erotics of language, Suksi’s debut is a bundle of wet atmospheres, speaking to faith in touch. The Nerves won the award the award for LGBTQ Erotica at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2021.+﻿𝐿𝒜 𝒲𝒜𝑅𝑀𝒜𝒩LA Warman is a poet, performer, and teacher currently based in New York City. Warman is the author of Whore Foods, an erotic novella which recieved a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. She is the founder of Warman School, a non-accredited and body based learning center. The Warman School has taught over 500 students online and in person. She teaches topics such as erotics, death, depression, and god. Pitchfork named her piece ADMSDP one of the top 100 songs of 2020. Her most recent book, Dust, came out on Inpatient Press in 2022𝐵Á𝑅𝒜 𝐻𝐿𝒜𝒟Í𝒦Bára Hladík is a Czech-Canadian writer, editor and multimedia artist. Born in Ktunaxa Territory, she began her literary studies in the Creative Writing program at Capilano University in 2011. After studying Technical Writing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Communications from the University of British Columbia in 2016. Her work can be found in Briarpatch Magazine, THIS Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Carte Blanche, EVENT Mag, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Bed Zine, Empty Mirror, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. Bára’s microchapbook Book of Mirrors was selected for the 2019 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series and her collaborative artist book Behind the Curtain (Publication Studio, 2018) was an honourable mention for the Scorpion and Felix Prize (2017). New Infinity is Bára’s first book. She is now a guest in Esquimalt, BC.-﻿𝒜𝒞𝒞𝐸𝒮𝒮𝐼𝐵𝐼𝐿𝐼𝒯𝒴There is a small set of stairs leading into the venue. Unfortunately this venue is not wheelchair accessible.

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