Speakeasy Reading Series with Meaghan Strimas, Jill Margo, Tyler Pennock and Melissa Major

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 7:30pm

Magpie Tavern
831 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1V4

February at the Speakeasy Reading Series will be the cat’s pyjamas! The joint will be jumpin’ with fabulous readers and plenty of giggle water and hooch on hand, courtesy of the fine folks at Magpie Tavern.

Come hear readings from the following authors:

Jill Margoo is originally from the west coast. She has worked as executive director of the Victoria School of Writing, and artistic director/host of two reading series (Sundays at the JBI and the Robson Reading Series). Her work has been published in the Malahat Review, Monday Magazine and Geist. She has been a finalist for both a Western Magazine Award and for the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. She is currently at work on a novel.

Tyler Pennock is Metis and Cree from the community of Faust, Alberta. He received his HBA from the University of Toronto in 2009, specializing in Aboriginal Studies. His plays have been workshopped at Weesageechak festival (through Native Earth Performing Arts),and the Mayworks festival. Tyler also writes poetry and creative non-fiction,and his works have appeared in the Yellow Medicine Review, through the University of Minnesota press.

Melissa Major is a playwright, poet and theatre director with double-jointed fingers. Because of that perhaps, her writing has been published in CanPlay, Open Book Toronto, an anthology called Shades of Grey, Sydney Law Society Journal and International Psychogeriatrics. She has worked over 75 stage productions and her scripts have been produced in Canada, USA, Hong Kong and India. Melissa is also the Artistic Director of The Cheshire Unicorn.

Meaghan Strimas is the editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen, and the author of two collections of poetry, Junkman's Daughter and A Good Time Had By All. At work on a new poetry book and a novel, Meaghan lives, works and writes in Toronto.

This is a FREE event!

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