Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall is the author of the novel, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, which will release from House of Anansi Press in fall 2009. She is the author of a novel called Bottle Rocket Hearts, named one of top 100 books of 2007 in the Globe and Mail and top 15 books in Quill & Quire magazine. She won emerging author of the year in Now Magazine, and the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging Gay Writer in Canada. Her poetry books include The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan) and The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare Books) and Precordial Thump (Exile Editions).

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The Joyland Joy-athon

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 8:00pm

The Stealth Lounge (above the Pilot)

22 Cumberland Ave.

Cost: $5 Suggested, free with t-shirt

Hosts
Brian Joseph Davis
Emily Schultz
Featured Performers
Zoe Whittall
Kevin Connolly
Carl Wilson
Emily Holton
Faye Guenther
Lynn Henry
Michael Holmes
Maggie MacDonald
Claudia Dey
Rebecca Rosenblum
Stacey May Fowles

Break your mourning and throw off the black clothes for one evening as Joyland.ca and the Scream Literary Festival peddle eleven readers, raffle prizes, and, yes, T-shirts! Claudia Dey, Rebecca Rosenblum, and Stacey May Fowles read their own work from Joyland and Maggie MacDonald will perform a dramatic reading of a script by Bruce LaBruce. Helping out with cover readings are: Zoe Whittall, Kevin Connolly, Carl Wilson, Emily Holton, and Faye Guenther. And in a very special set, editors Lynn Henry and Michael Holmes read their own writers!

Hosted by Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz, the world’s most incompetent capitalists, who will beg and plead for T-shirt sales in an entertaining fashion throughout the entire night.

Joyland.ca is an international hub for short fiction founded by well-meaning mixed citizenship couple Brian Joseph Davis (CAN) and Emily Schultz (US/CAN). To date the site has featured work by Lydia Millet, Lynn Coady, Jonathan Lethem, Ed Park, Nathan Sellyn, and many other emerging and established talents.

Submitted by aaron on June 14, 2009 - 3:16pm.