TINARS Emerging Writers Night

Pages Books & Magazines, EYE WEEKLY and The Gladstone Hotel join forces to present a special This Is Not A Reading Series event designed to showcase emerging Toronto writers. "What Is Missing" by Daniel Scott Tysdal, the first-place story in EYE WEEKLY's inaugural short story contest, will be performed by Brian Joseph Davis in the style in the style of an old-time radio broadcast, accompanied by live sound effects. Tysdal will engage in a dynamic on-stage conversation about the writing process with fellow finalists Alexander Cole and Grace O'Connell, moderated by respected poet and Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox. The evening will be hosted by Damian Rogers, Arts & Lifestyle editor of EYE WEEKLY, and is sponsored by Penguin Group (Canada), Simon & Schuster Canada, HarperCollins Canada, and Random House Canada.

At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, on Tuesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.). This is a free event.

Alana Wilcox is the senior editor of Coach House Books, where she co-founded the celebrated uTOpia series. She also serves as the past chair of the Literary Press Group and is the author of a novel, A Grammar Of Endings (Mercury Press). Wilcox lives in Toronto.

Damian Rogers is the Arts & Lifestyle Editor at EYE WEEKLY Magazine. She is also a published poet who has worked at Poetry Magazine, founded Pontiac Quarterly, contributed to uTOpia (Coach House) and edited books for Drag City. Rogers lives in Toronto.