DRAFT 16.5

Draft Reading Collective

Please join us on Sunday, May 30, to hear new work by <a href="https://sonjaboon.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sonja Boon</a>, <a href="https://www.kerncarter.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kern Carter</a>, <a href="https://ehjchang.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ellen Chang-Richardson</a>, <a href="http://marklaliberte.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mark Laliberte</a>, <a href="https://sannawani.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sanna Wani</a> and <a href="http://andrewwilmot.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Andrew Wilmot</a>.<a href="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/engdept/person/leanne-simpson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>TIME:Sunday, May 30, 3:00 p.m.The reading will take place on ZOOM. The link will appear on your ticket and on the email you&#x27;ll receive ten minutes before the reading. Closed-captioning will be available. Please feel free to contact us with your access needs and questions. draftreadings at gmail.comTickets are available on a sliding scale (including free). Proceeds go to pay authors at this and other readings in the season.<a href="https://sonjaboon.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sonja Boon</a> is a researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist living in St. John’s. Passionate about stories and storytelling, she is the author of What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019), a memoir that traverses five continents and spans more than two centuries. Sonja’s creative non-fiction essays appear in published collections as well as in Geist, The Ethnic Aisle, and ROOM, among others. For six years, Sonja was principal flutist and a frequent soloist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon).<a href="https://www.kerncarter.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kern Carter</a> is a writer and author who has written and published two novels — Thoughts of a Fractured Soul and Beauty Scars. Kern is also a ghostwriter with credits in Forbes, The New York Times, Global Citizen and Fatherly.com, along with having ghostwritten several books. When he&#x27;s not penning novels or ghostwriting, Kern creates and curates stories through CRY Creative Group, his content creation brand that specializes in written storytelling. <a href="https://ehjchang.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ellen Chang-Richardson</a> (she/her) is an award-winning poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian-Chinese descent. The author of three poetry chapbooks, including snap, pop, performance (Gap Riot Press), her writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, untethered magazine, Watch Your Head: Writers &amp; Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books), among others. She is the founder of Little Birds Poetry, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, and a member of the poetry collective VII. She currently lives/works on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. <a href="http://marklaliberte.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mark Laliberte</a> is an artist-writer-designer with an MFA from University of Guelph. He has exhibited extensively in galleries across Canada and internationally, curates the online experimental comics site http://4panel.ca, and edits the hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL. Laliberte has had pageworks, poems and other print experiments appear in publications big and small, including Ink Brick, POETRY, prairie fire, subTerrain and Vallum. Publications include &#x27;BRICKBRICKBRICK&#x27; (Book*Hug, 2010) and &#x27;asemanticasymmetry&#x27; (Anstruther Press, 2016). He is the recipient of numerous grants, including a Canada Council for the Arts &#x27;Digital Originals&#x27; grant. Laliberte is a member of the collaborative writing entity, <a href="http://ma-de.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MA|DE</a>. <a href="https://sannawani.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sanna Wani</a> lives between Mississauga and Srinagar. Her poems have been published in Poem-A-Day, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Best Canadian Poetry 2020. She loves daisies.<a href="http://andrewwilmot.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Andrew Wilmot</a> is an award-winning Toronto-based author and editor, and co-publisher of the magazine Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Their fiction has appeared in a variety of places, both online and in print. Further details at andrewwilmot.ca. Their first novel, The Death Scene Artist, is available from Wolsak &amp; Wynn/Buckrider Books.We are grateful for the financial assistance of the <a href="https://canadacouncil.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Canada Council for the Arts</a> through the <a href="https://www.writersunion.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Writers&#x27; Union of Canada</a>, and the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage through the <a href="https://poets.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">League of Canadian Poets</a>.

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