Join us on Tuesday January 8th at The Ossington
Doors open at 7 / readings start at 730
Event is free / PWYC (suggested donation $5)
All proceeds go towards the artists
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READINGS BY:
Jess Taylor
Paola Ferrante
Kern Carter
Dominik Parisien
Natalie Liconti
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HOSTED BY:
Sophie McCreesh
Fawn Parker
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JESS TAYLOR is a Toronto writer and poet. Her second collection, Just Pervs, will be released by Book*hug in Canada in Fall 2019. Recently, a short story from that collection, "Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love", was long-listed for The Journey Prize and included in The Journey Prize Anthology 30. The title story from her first collection, Pauls (BookThug, 2015), "Paul," received the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award. Jess believes that collaboration and helping other writers is an important part of her writing practice and continues to organize events in the community. She is currently working on a novel, Play, and a continuation of her life poem, Never Stop.
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Paola Ferrante's poetry and fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Fiddlehead, The Puritan, Joyland, Carte Blanche, Minola Review, New Poetry, Overland, Geometry and elsewhere. Her fiction has been long listed for SmokeLong Quarterly's 15 anniversary Flash Fiction Awards, shortlisted for PRISM International's 2018 Grouse Grind, and Highly Commended in the TSS Publishing Summer 2018 Flash 400 Competition. Her chapbook, The True Confessions of Buffalo Bill, was published by Anstruther Press. She resides in Toronto, Canada.
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KERN CARTER is a writer and author moving the world forward with words. He has written two books, the first a novella titled, Thoughts of a Fractured Soul, and more recently a novel titled Beauty Scars. Kern is also a ghostwriter with credits in Forbes, the New York Times, Global Citizen, and Elle Magazine. When he's not penning novels or ghostwriting for celebrities, Kern expresses himself through his blog CRY, which stands for Creatively Representing Yourself.
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Dominik Parisien is an editor, writer, and poet. His work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Quill & Quire, Atticus Review, Uncanny Magazine, and various other magazines and anthologies. His poetry chapbook We, Old Young Ones was published by Frog Hollow Press through its Dis/Ability series. He is also the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award. His latest editorial project is Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual, French Canadian. He lives in Toronto.
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NATALIE LICONTI is a Toronto-based performance artist and playwright. She has a multidisciplinary interest in work that explores camp, queerness, and dystopia/utopia.

Natalie's work has been presented internationally at festivals such as Printemps Numérique Festival 2015, ZH Festival 2017, and Calm Down, Dear Festival 2018 (Camden People's Theatre, London). She is the founder and producer of the queer/femme Montréal-based performance collective, Daughter Product. Natalie has been nominated for various Montreal English Theatre Awards in categories such as Outstanding Emerging Artist, Outstanding Original Text (The Life and Death of Fred Herko), and Outstanding Independent Production. In 2018 Natalie was the only international artist to be selected for Camden People's Theatre's Starting Blocks Programme - a creation residency for emerging solo artists in London, UK. Natalie's work, The Gentle Art of Punishment, was shortlisted for the Playwright's Guild of Canada's Robert Beardsley Award this past year. Natalie is currently one of The Rhubarb Festival's Artistic Interns at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre.