The Factory Reading Series presents: Hugh Thomas (Fredericton) Michael Blouin (Kemptville) Brecken Hancock (Ottawa) + Abby Paige (Ottawa)
7:00 PM on Friday Feb. 22nd, 2013
The Carleton Tavern (upstairs) 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale), The Carleton Tavern (upstairs) 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale)
7:00 PM on Friday Feb. 22nd, 2013
The Carleton Tavern (upstairs) 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale), The Carleton Tavern (upstairs) 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale)
Hugh Thomas lives in Fredericton, where he is a professor of mathematics
at the University of New Brunswick. Chapbooks of his poetry have been
published by Paper Kite Press (Heart badly buried by five shovels, 2009),
BookThug (Mutations, 2004), and above/ground press (Opening the
Dictionary, 2011), which was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook
Award. Franzlations, the imaginary Kafka parables, a book of variations on
Kafka texts, a joint project with Gary Barwin and Craig Conley, was
published by New star Books in 2011.
Michael Blouins critically acclaimed first novel Chase and Haven (Coach
House) was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and won the 2009
ReLit Award. In 2007 his first collected poetry Im not going to lie to you
(Pedlar Press) was a finalist for the Lampman Scott Award. In 2011 Pedlar
Press released Wore Down Trust, which won the Lampman Poetry Award in
2012. He was a finalist for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards and his work has
been published in many literary magazines includingDescant, Arc, The
Antigonish Review, Event, Queens Quarterly, The New Quarterly, and The
Fiddlehead. He is currently completing work on his second novel and is
represented internationally by Westwood Creative Artists. His
collaborative chapbook with Elizabeth Rainer, let lie/ (above/ground
press, 2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
Brecken Hancock's [pictured, above] poetry and essays have appeared in
Grain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Arc, and Studies in Canadian
Literature. Originally from Middle Lake, Saskatchewan, she's since lived
in Fredericton, Reykjavik, and Kyoto, but she's also been home to hold
residencies at The Bruno Arts Bank, a converted historical building in
rural Saskatchewan. Her first full-length manuscript of poems, Broom
Broom, is forthcoming with Coach House Books. She lives and walks dogs in
Ottawa.
She will be launching her chapbook The Art of Plumbing (above/ground press).
Abby Paige is a poet, performer, and freelance writer whose work has
appeared in the United States and Canada, most recently in ottawater #9.
Her solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, has toured in New England
and Quebec. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and
is a former Fulbright scholar.
She will be launching her chapbook Other Brief Discourses (above/ground
press).
http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-factory-reading-series-presents.html
at the University of New Brunswick. Chapbooks of his poetry have been
published by Paper Kite Press (Heart badly buried by five shovels, 2009),
BookThug (Mutations, 2004), and above/ground press (Opening the
Dictionary, 2011), which was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook
Award. Franzlations, the imaginary Kafka parables, a book of variations on
Kafka texts, a joint project with Gary Barwin and Craig Conley, was
published by New star Books in 2011.
Michael Blouins critically acclaimed first novel Chase and Haven (Coach
House) was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and won the 2009
ReLit Award. In 2007 his first collected poetry Im not going to lie to you
(Pedlar Press) was a finalist for the Lampman Scott Award. In 2011 Pedlar
Press released Wore Down Trust, which won the Lampman Poetry Award in
2012. He was a finalist for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards and his work has
been published in many literary magazines includingDescant, Arc, The
Antigonish Review, Event, Queens Quarterly, The New Quarterly, and The
Fiddlehead. He is currently completing work on his second novel and is
represented internationally by Westwood Creative Artists. His
collaborative chapbook with Elizabeth Rainer, let lie/ (above/ground
press, 2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
Brecken Hancock's [pictured, above] poetry and essays have appeared in
Grain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Arc, and Studies in Canadian
Literature. Originally from Middle Lake, Saskatchewan, she's since lived
in Fredericton, Reykjavik, and Kyoto, but she's also been home to hold
residencies at The Bruno Arts Bank, a converted historical building in
rural Saskatchewan. Her first full-length manuscript of poems, Broom
Broom, is forthcoming with Coach House Books. She lives and walks dogs in
Ottawa.
She will be launching her chapbook The Art of Plumbing (above/ground press).
Abby Paige is a poet, performer, and freelance writer whose work has
appeared in the United States and Canada, most recently in ottawater #9.
Her solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, has toured in New England
and Quebec. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and
is a former Fulbright scholar.
She will be launching her chapbook Other Brief Discourses (above/ground
press).
http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-factory-reading-series-presents.html