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Brockton Writers Series January wrap-up & next event on March 8
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January wrap-up:
Changes to Ontario Arts Council Grants

To a packed crowd at the Glad Day Bookshop during our last reading event in January, Jack Illingworth (left), Literature Officer at the Ontario Arts Council, explained the recent changes to OAC's grants for writers. OAC has launched a new online application system; deadlines, names and requirements have been changed. The grants formerly called Word of Mouth and Writers' Works in Progress have been rolled into a grant called Literary Creation Projects, with deadlines in April and October. The old Writers' Reserve grant is now called Recommender Grants for Writers. Applications are accepted by recommenders from Sept. 2017 to Jan. 2018. For more info go to: arts.on.ca. 

Join us for our next event:
Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30 p.m.

In honour of International Women’s Day, Brockton Writers Series presents:

Kateri Akiwenzie Damm, Manasi Nene, Casey Plett, Giovanna Riccio
& our guest speaker:

Teva Harrison is an artist, writer and cartoonist. She is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed hybrid graphic memoir, In-Between Days, published by House of Anansi Press. Her topic will be Breaking the Constraints of Form: There Are Many Ways to Tell a Story.

Venue:
Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St., Toronto

Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support and to the Canada Council for the Arts for travel funding.


 
Books we like:

Letters to My Father
By Bänoo Zan
Piquant Press, 2017
50pp., $18.50
 
Less than a year after her debut, Songs of Exile, November 2016 Brockton Writers Series reader Bänoo Zan’s second collection of poems, Letters to My Father, comprises poems written after her father’s death in 2012. The work’s not lugubrious, though, nor wholly elegiac; these tributes are fraught with tension and self-examination, and in general the poems are more introspective and less overtly political than the poems in Songs of Exile. There is fierce love, too—“Don’t show these / to my mother” the speaker says in one case, “She would think / I am eloping / with you”—and among other themes, prayer, which the poems come to resemble with their persistent deployment of imperfect rhyme and phrases that only rarely exceed five words. In all, it makes for a collection that’s best read in one sitting, and difficult to turn away from. — recommended by Daniel Perry, short story collection author and Brockton Writers Series volunteer.
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