Amanda Earl features at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, Ottawa: Sunday, September 22, 2013

Ottawa writer, small press publisher and above/ground press author Amanda Earl does her final reading of 2013 this Sunday afternoon at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, co-featuring alongside Ottawa fiction writer Craig Calhoun [see her post about such here]. With featured reader(s) and an open set, The Dusty Owl Reading Series is held at Mugshots Bar, 75 Nicholas Street, Ottawa and begins at 3pm.

above/ground press has been fortunate enough to produce three of Amanda Earl's poetry chapbooks -- E l e a n o r (2007), The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman (2008) and Sex First & Then A Sandwich (2012) -- all of which are still available.

As she writes:

Please join me & my illustrious compatriot, the darkly poetic/poetically dark fiction writer Craig Calhoun for our featured readings this Sunday:

Dusty Owl Reading Series
Mugshots Bar, 75 Nicholas Street
Sunday, September 22, 3pm

Craig says he's going to read us stories of murder & fire. Also he reports that there is a skeleton in the Mugshots Courtyard.

I'll be reading mostly new un-related soundy poems featuring the Furious Girl, the World-Owes-Him-A-Living Guy, Daphne-the Dame of the Dolphin, skullduggery, jiggery pockery, hermit crabs, King Arthur, the yellow brick road, Imogen, Sir Ender of the Liquor Ardour, hounderifics, clam ditties, Bro Diddley, Madam Bovary, stodgy otters, diphthongs &  more disreputable characters…

I hope to see you there.

For those of you who like doing such things, here is the FaceBook event to sign up to.

The Factory Reading Series presents: chapbook launches/readings by Maguire, Prevost + Calhoun,,

The Factory Reading Series presents:

readings and above/ground press chapbook launches by:

Shannon Maguire (Toronto/Guelph)
+ Roland Prevost (Ottawa)
with special guest Craig Calhoun (Ottawa)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Saturday, December 15, 2012;
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern (upstairs)
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale)

Shannon Maguire is the author of the chapbooks: Vowel Wolves & Other Knots (above/ground, 2011) and Fruit Machine (Ferno House, 2012). She has been a finalist for the Manitoba Magazine Awards (2012) and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry (2011). Her first full-length collection, Fur(l) Parachute is forthcoming from BookThug in spring 2013.

She will be launching her second above/ground press title, A Web Of Holes (2012).

Roland Prevost’s poetry appears in Arc poetry magazine, Descant Magazine, the Ottawa Arts Review, Peter F. Yacht Club, Ottawater (online), among others. He has three previous chapbooks: Metafizz (2007, Bywords), Dragon Verses (2009, Dusty Owl), Our/ Are Carried Invisibles (2009, above/ground). He’s also been published in two poetry collections by Amanda Earl’s AngelHousePress, Whack of Clouds (2008) and Pent Up (2009). Roland won the 2006 John Newlove Poetry Award. He was, for a few years, the managing editor of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as poetics.ca, both online. He studied English and Psychology at York University and the University of Manitoba. He lives, writes poetry, short stories, a lifelong journal, composes and records songs, and peers through telescopes in Ottawa.

He will be launching his second above/ground press poetry chapbook, Parapagus (2012).

Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Craig Calhoun moved to Canada in 2008. His work has appeared in the Writers in Prison issue of Descant, Pilot, The Incongruous Quarterly, Liars’ League London, Liars’ League NYC, Marco Polo, and Steel Bananas Quarterly.

The Factory Reading Series: some upcoming (December-March) events,

We at above/ground press and The Factory Reading Series know how excited you get about literary readings, so we thought we should let you know some of what is in the works for the next couple of months:

December 15: reading and chapbook launches by Roland Prevost, Shannon Maguire and Craig Calhoun
upstairs at The Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale) / 7pm doors; 7:30 reading

December 29: the annual Peter F Yacht Club reading/Christmas party/regatta
at The Carleton Tavern / 7pm doors; 7:30 reading

January 24: the launch of ottawater #9
at The Carleton Tavern / 7pm doors; 7:30 reading

February 22: Hugh Thomas and others tba
at The Carleton Tavern / 7pm doors; 7:30 reading

March 12-17: the third annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival
including The Factory Reading Series' annual lecture; readers and venue tba

March 28: reading and chapbook launches by Deborah Poe, Wanda O'Connor and tba
at The Carleton Tavern / 7pm doors; 7:30 reading

all lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Can you believe it? In January 2013 The Factory Reading Series turns twenty years old!

And the triumphant return of rob mclennan's poetry workshops at Collected Works! January to March. Spaces still available.

further information on any/all of these events tba; watch this space for details