Author Archives: Pearl

Coming this week: The Factory Reading Series presents a VerseFest Fundraiser with lectures/talks on writing followed by a Q&A. The idea is to give more depth and meat to the why and how and background of poetics than can be usually afforded in a format which is focused on people sharing their poems. The first […]

Join us at the Jack Purcell Community Centre from 11am to 4pm on Saturday, December 1st, for our first major Holiday Book Sale. With thousands of interesting books for sale, any three hardcovers can be yours for just $10 and paperbacks are just $2 each! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we’ve got some amazing books […]

It was 3 days and the inaugural fest. Words and photos feel utterly inadequate to express the energy there. You have to go next year and hope the zeitgeist is as beaming. Warm as a womb and as full as it was it was bound to release us all soon to the wider world again. […]

Amanda Earl described some. To which I’d add photos: David introducing at the Plan 99/Writers Fest readers on Sunday including Nyla Matuk from her first collection Sumptuary Laws. Tierney was reading from Probably Inevitable and Marcus McCann from The Hard Return, a book I bought asap pre-launch with good reason. Hear him read ‘Cover Letter’ […]

Eric and new co-coordinator Craig hosted the latest Grey Borders proudly presents of bill bissett (Lunaria), Steve Zultanski (Brooklyn, NY), Pearl Pirie (Ottawa, ONT), Donato Mancini (Vancouver, BC) and Beatriz Hausner (Toronto, ONT). Happily audiencing. (And the middle lady drove up from Niagara Falls for this.) Formerly of Ottawa Ryan and Emily. Ryan wrote about […]