Arts Event

Katherine Leyton is a poet and non-fiction writer whose work has
appeared in The Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, The Malahat Review and Bitch.
All the Gold Hurts My Mouth, her first collection of poetry, will be
published by Goose Lane in March 2016. She was the inaugural
Writer-in-Residence at the Al & Euirthe Purdy A-Frame in the summer of
2014. She recently moved to Ottawa from Toronto.

Currently the Poet Laureate for the City of Barrie, damian lopes is
the author of several books of poetry and a former editor at Coach
House Books. His most recent publication, yasser arafat is dead, is a
poetry chapbook published by Ottawa’s above/ground press. In addition
to poetry, damian continues to work on his first novel.

See the recent profile on him at Jacket2, as part of rob mclennan's
'commentaries':
http://jacket2.org/commentary/damian-lopes-three-new-poems

Rod Moody-Corbett holds an MA in creative writing from the University
of New Brunswick, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of
Calgary. His short story, “Parse,” was a finalist for the 2013 CBC
Short Story Prize, and winner of that prize’s People’s Choice Award.
His work has appeared in numerous Canadian journals, and he was
recently named a finalist in The Paris Review’s “Windows On the World”
contest. His work is forthcoming in The Calgary Renaissance (Ottawa:
Chaudiere Books, 2016).

http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-factory-reading-series-leyton-lopes.