words on stages / parenthetical issue 16 launch

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It’s our (technically) first show of the 2017 season—in 2016! And we’re not only launching issue sixteen of (parenthetical), but featuring some fantastic prose and poetry readers in Julie Mannell, Laboni Islam, and Phillip Dwight Morgan.
So come brave the inevitable cold and join us, as always, at The Central for what ought to be an awesome night.
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Vitals:
Thursday, November 17th
7:00 pm doors/open mic-sign up, 7:30 show
open mic starts the night
@ The Central (603 Markham Street, right beside Honest Ed’s, by Bathurst station)
FREE/PWYC (all money from PWYC goes back to our readers)
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JULIE MANNELL is a prose and poetry writer, feminist, journalist, cultural commentator, and human rights activist, originally from Fonthill, Ontario, by ways of Montreal. Her style has been referred to as “Southern Ontario gothic with a spark of magical realism.” Furthermore, Mannell has been described as “edgy,” “a literary badass,” “cut throat,” and “radically anti-romantic.” Her work has appeared in appear in Joyland, Matrix Magazine, Lemon Hound, The Puritan, Branch Magazine, amongst others.
LABONI ISLAM is a Toronto-based arts educator and poet. She currently works at the Art Gallery of Ontario, animating the gap between art and young audiences. She teaches for the moment when discovery flips a light-switch on in a learner. Laboni is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program. Her poetry has appeared in FreeFall and WILDNESS, and she is the recipient of the Janice Colbert Poetry Award (2014) and Marina Nemat Award (2016).
PHILLIP DWIGHT MORGAN is Toronto-based writer of Jamaican heritage. His poem “Free Trade Agreement” was runner-up for best poem in Briarpatch Magazine’s 2016 Writing from the Margins contest and “Shades of America” received honourable mention for the 2016 Blodwyn Memorial Prize. He is currently working on his first collection of poetry, Portraits in Black Face, which is made possible through the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council. Phillip views writing as a process of self-discovery, emancipation and nourishment.

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