Draft 15.5

Draft Reading Collective

Please join us on Zoom for the very first virtual Draft reading.

Sign up to hear new and unpublished work by Djamila Ibrahim and Lynne Kutsukake, along with brief readings by alumni and friends of our series. YOU MUST REGISTER on Eventbrite to receive a link to the reading.There's more information on our website: www.draftreadings.comHere is some more information about the featured readers:Djamila Ibrahim's debut short story collection Things Are Good Now was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Djamila’s stories have been shortlisted for the University of Toronto’s Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction and Briarpatch Magazine’s creative writing contest. Things Are Good Now was one of Now Magazine's 10 Books To Be Excited About in 2018 and has made several CBC lists of Books/Writers To Watch For as well as being reviewed favourably in many other publications. The Globe and Mail has called Things Are Good Now "[an] essential fiction for right now.” Djamila was formerly a senior advisor for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. She now lives and works in Toronto. Lynne Kutsukake is a Japanese Canadian writer. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Grain, Windsor Review, Ricepaper and Prairie Fire. Her debut novel, The Translation of Love, won the Canada-Japan Literary Award (2016) and the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize for Literary Fiction (2017). This reading is produced with the financial assistance of the Toronto Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers Union of Canada.

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