some author activity: Earl, Houbolt + Melançon,

Amanda Earl features at David O'Meara's Plan 99 Reading Series in Ottawa, alongside Gillian Sze and Adam Sol on Saturday, April 15, 2023; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a new piece up at Sublunary Review, and another in IDLE INK; and Jérôme Melançon has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog to open this year's National Poetry Month.

Brecken Hancock and Camille Martin at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa;

above/ground press authors Brecken Hancock and Camille Martin feature at Ottawa's TREE Reading Series on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 8pm! Admission is free, and there's even an open set.

Martin will be launching her new above/ground press chapbook, Sugar Beach, and Brecken Hancock (author of The Art of Plumbing) will be launching her first trade poetry collection, Broom Broom (Coach House Books, 2014). See the link at the TREE Reading Series website for more details. Might we see you there?

and: Brecken is also reading on Sunday, April 27th with Aisha Saint John as part of the Plan 99 Reading Series at the ottawa international writers festival!

some author activity: McNair, Brockwell, Hancock, mclennan, Smith + Schapira,

above/ground press author Christine McNair gets a nice review (by Matthew Redmond) of her BookThug title over at The Bull Calf; the Plan 99 Reading Series in Ottawa has posted their spring schedule, including readings by Stephen Brockwell (March 29 - w/ Sounankham Thamavongsa and Kathryn Mockler), Brecken Hancock (April 27 - w/ Aisha Sasha John) and rob mclennan (May 10); and both Jessica Smith and Kate Schapira have new work in the second issue of La Vague Journal.