A hands-on, mixed media workshop where participants imagine what it might take to survive and thrive in an unknown future. What might our future/s look like, if we visualize and strategize from a place of strength and hopefulness? We’ll create visual representations or ‘blueprints’.No drawing or writing experience necessary – Read more
If you happen to be in San Francisco, California, hit up STRUT, the Foglifter Launch Party Extravaganza for Volume 3 Issue 2 …. Saturday November 10, 2018 at 470 Castro Street Bubbly and dancefloor extremism and readings from the latest issue. Order a copy online and enjoy the queer delights Read more
Some of Canada’s most relevant and exciting authors head to Hamilton next week for the annual Grit Lit Festival!Check out the likes of Tanya Talaga (Seven Fallen Feathers), Casey Plett (Little Fish), Kerri Sakamoto (One Hundred Million Hearts), Sachiko Murakami (The Invisibility Exhibit), and so so many more.I’ll be with Read more
Here I am, all Dolled up with the talented and precocious Professor Keith Cole at FADO’s Valley of the Dolls Commencement Ceremony. Photo Credit: Henry Chan An excerpt from my Keynote Address: “My Kindest advice to the Graduates:Self medicate. Like the precious white women in this book. Pop your pills Read more
Join the Queen of the Lady Monsters, Sandra Kasturi, at ChiSeries, a monthly reading event featuring Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror. I’ll be reading alongside James Alan Gardner, Stephen Michell and Gary Thomas Morse, with original songs by Kari Maaren! Hosted by the Chiaroscuro Reading Series at ROUND Venue, 152 Read more
Tarry This Night – included on CBC’s top 20 Fall Fiction Reads – is hot off the press, so order your copy from a favourite independent bookstore now! Or visit the author at various readings to get your own signed copy ….. Tuesday Sept 19, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Read more
Today is the day! Yes, we are calling on YOU to skip on down to a local, independent bookstore and ….buy a book. Trade your low-fat lattes for a few days and instead feast your mind and spirit with a scintillating new read. I will be hanging with the heroes Read more
Bring your fine self down to Round Venue in Kensington Market for a night of thrilling sci-fi, horror and speculative literature with the likes of Kristyn Dunnion, J. M. Frey, and Pat Flewwelling. Mistress of Ceremonies, Sandra Kasturi, will keep us all in line and Kari Maaren is cranking the tunes. Read more
I am in love with the Vermont Studio Center, a chill arts residency campus situated in Johnson, Vermont. Painters, poets, sculptors, mixed media, prose .. so much excellent work is happening here and I’m delighted to be tucked into the middle of it all. To me it encourages the perfect Read more
This weekend Glad Day Books in Toronto is hosting over one hundred queer authors in four venues. Writers will be presenting workshops, giving readings and panel discussions. and let’s not forget there will be PARTIES. Visit the homo-page at www.nakedheart.ca for updated schedules and the low-down on what’s happening. Join Read more