The Factory Reading Series Presents:
readings and chapbook launches by:
Kevin Spenst
(Vancouver)
Conyer Clayton (Ottawa)
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rob mclennan
(Ottawa)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Doors 7pm / Reading 730pm
Ten Toes Coffee House and Laundry
837 Somerset Street West (at Rochester Street,
Kevin Spenst (he/him) [pictured] is the
author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and Hearts Amok: a
Memoir in Verse (all with Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks
including Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press), Upend (Frog Hollow
Press) and an upcoming holm with the Alfred Gustav Press. His most recent
writing has appeared in the anthologies Event 50: Collected Notes on Writing
and Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing. His book launch
during the pandemic was featured in a book about creative practices: The
Creative Instigator’s Handbook. He teaches creative writing at Vancouver
Community College and Simon Fraser University and he lives in Vancouver on
unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory.
Conyer Clayton is an
award-winning writer, editor, and musician whose multi-genre work often
explores grief, disability, the climate crisis, and gender-based violence
through a surrealist lens. They are the author of But the sun, and the
ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Finalist for the Pat Lowther Award and
Raymond Souster Award), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the
2021 Ottawa Book Award), and many solo and collaborative chapbooks. They are
the Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, a Poetry Editor for
Augur, and a member of VII; an Ottawa-based poetry collective.
The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry,
fiction and non-fiction, rob mclennan’s most recent titles include the
poetry collections the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press,
2022) and World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023), the chapbook The Alta Vista
Improvements (above/ground press, 2023), and a suite of pandemic essays, essays
in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022). He spent the 2007-8
academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta,
and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at
robmclennan.blogspot.com
