Chandra Mayor, Debra Anderson and Zoe Whittall Reading at the Toronto Women's Bookstore
Triple Threat Femme Invasion at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore!!
Come out for a femme-tastic night of readings as Chandra Mayor, the dynamo Winnipeg author, launches her new short story collection All the Pretty Girls (conundrum press) on Thursday, May 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73 Harbord Street). Debra Anderson (Code White) and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) and will also read and share some Toronto love.
Join us for an evening of kick-ass literature and lipgloss – a one night only event! Authors will have books for sale and be available for book signings. For more info check out www.debraanderson.ca or www.chandramayor.com or www.zoewhittall.blogspot.com or www.womensbookstore.com.
Chandra Mayor is a Winnipeg writer and editor. Her first book, August Witch, was an award-winning collection of poetry. She was the recipient of the 2004 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and her second book, Cherry, a novel, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. She was the 2006/07 Writer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, and is the Poetry Co-Editor for Prairie Fire Magazine. Her new book, All the Pretty Girls, is a collection of short stories (conundrum press, Spring '08).
3/4 nervous nelly. 1/4 running with scissors, Debra Anderson has been anthologized in Brazen Femme, Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws, and Bent On Writing. She facilitated a Creative Writing Workshop at Word on the Street (2007) and organizes the reading series, Get Your Lit Out. Code White (McGilligan Books, 2005) is her first novel, which Herizons Magazine described as "…a book that meets your eye, has a good handshake, and looks killer in a pair of fishnets.” Upcoming events include York University's Canadian Writers in Person Reading Series.
Zoe Whittall's first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant) was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire magazine. Now Magazine awarded her the title of Best Emerging Author of 2007. She published a book of poems in 2001 called The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan Books) and a second volume The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare Books) in 2006. The Globe and Mail called her "the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler…”. She was born in South Durham, Quebec, resided in Montreal during the early 1990s and has lived in Toronto since 1997. Her next book of poems, Precordial Thump, is forthcoming this fall with Exile Editions.
