Tara Michelle Ziniuk on CHRY 105.5FM!

Tune into Womyn's Word on CHRY 105.5FM between 12 and 1pm this Wednesday, June 24th for an interview with Tara Michelle Ziniuk! Listen on the radio or stream it at http://www.chry.fm/!

Save the date! She’s Shameless launches June 23rd in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel!

SHE’S SHAMELESS / SHE’S WRITING
Shameless magazine and This Is Not A Reading Series celebrates the launch of She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back

What media event five years ago transformed the lives of teenaged girls across North America? Here’s a clue: it had nothing to do with a boy wizard or the misadventures of trust fund brats. In June of 2004, Shameless, a magazine for “girls who get it”, first appeared on newsstands. The editor and publisher of the magazine have assembled She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back (Tightrope Books). To celebrate the launch of the inaugural Shameless collection, contributors like Zoe Whittall and Shannon Gerard will perform short pieces. Five teenaged girls will join them on-stage and present monologues from a writing workshop conducted that afternoon by acclaimed writer and teacher Ibi Kaslik. The evening will conclude with an early ‘90s-themed, Sadie Hawkins prom, featuring a noted local DJ. – A This is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Tightrope Books, Shameless, NOW Magazine, Gladstone Hotel and Take Five On CIUT.

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto

Tues June 23; 8pm (doors 7:30pm) $5 (Free with Book Purchase)

Call for Submissions: Best Canadian Essays

Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino are editing the first Best Canadian Essays, set for publication this fall with Tightrope Books. Along with print magazines, they're interested to consider essays and articles posted online. If you're a Canadian writer with an essay posted to a site in 2008, it's possible to submit the piece by sending the link, a brief bio, word count and month the work was posted in 2008 to bestcanessay (singular) @ gmail.com -- please put the essay topic in the subject line. They're looking for more than just literary work here and considering all kinds of material.

Call For Submissions: Steel Bananas Presents: Fragmentation

Editors Karen Correia Da Silva, Sarah Beaudin and Curran Folkers are calling for submissions of poetry and prose on the theme of fragmentation for the upcoming Steel Bananas Anthology, to be released with Tightrope Books this fall. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and concept of the assemblage, the anthology aims to create a snapshot of the diversity of contemporary Canadian literary culture, mixing burgeoning young writers with established literary figures.

Submissions will be selected on the basis of formal and thematic originality, so interested writers are encouraged to explore and experiment with the boundaries of their relation to the written word.

Please send all submissions to themeissue@steelbananas.com by July 15th '09, and direct all inquiries to karends@tightropebooks.com.

For more information:
http://www.steelbananas.com/theme-issue/