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Toronto Reading Series Have a great summer!!! 📚📇 www.junctionreads.ca Opinions shared are Alison's.

Pink and blue Promotional photo of the HOWL literary radio show. July 21 at 10:00pm ET.
Fun pink poster with a picture of The Wallflower a cafe/wine bar in Hamilton Raffle, Comfy sofas, other I for in the post.
An image with an orange backdrop, includes photos of four books and four female authors. BECALMING (blue cover with clouds) by Aga Maksimowska; THE TINDER SONNETS (white cover, beige-grey centre, collage of female body) by Jennifer LoveGrove; THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT (forest of trees with orange lettering) by Liz Johnston; BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE (black cover with woman underwater, white and yellow lettering) by Alison Gadsby.
Promo image with a photo of Leila Marshy, a white-presenting woman with dark-framed glasses. Beside the cover of the book, my thievery of the people, as mentioned in the post. The First Thirty, Thursday May 14 at 7;00pm ET.
Book cover image of EVERY DROP OF BLOOD IS RED with the words, Book Review Above
Promote image with a photo of summary Turaki beside a picture of his book cover EVERY DROP OF BLOOD IS RED
Sunday May 3 6:30 pm at Type Books Junction Kerry Clare, Alice Fitzpatrick Liz Johnston
There are approximately 8.5 million Jewish Zionists, globally. There are over 30 million Christian Zionists in the US, An estimated 170 million Christian Zionists globally. Christian Zionists believe Jews need to return to the Levant, but only until the second coming of Jesus, at which point anyone who isn’t Christian is going to hell. This is what is behind Christian-Zionist thought: “One, the founding of today’s nation-state of Israel in 1948 marked the final human era and a signal of the end of times. Two, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is part of God’s plan with a great and final war preceding the second coming of Christ. Three, God’s covenant with Israel is eternal and unconditional. Four, failing to support Israel’s political dominance today will incur divine judgement.” Urooba Jamal Tell me again, that Jewish people aren’t being played by Christians and that this entire war isn’t a ploy to somehow convert everyone to Christianity?
Promotional graphic with Phylum Reading Series, Sunday March 15, 7:00pm. Niagara Arts Centre. 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON in the microcinema. Three photos of books and authors. STAN ON GUARD with KR Wilson, a white man with salt and pepper hair wearing glasses, middle image of book, THE LOST QUEEN, with circle photo of author Heidi von Palleske, a white woman with red hair, third photo of book cover, BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE, with circle photo of Alison Gadsby, a grey-haired white woman.
Five photos of book signing day, author in centre photo, white woman with dark grey hair, signing a book. 4 photos with friends, smiling.
Photo of the author, Alison Gadsby, holding a copy of BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE, seated with a bookstore in the foreground.
A review with the picture of the book cover for BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE by Alison Gadsby. Two quotes: 1: "I'm not even sure how to review this book" and 2: “It is interesting, disturbing, sometimes funny, and frequently made me gasp...What I like about this book was that the stories never dove too deep, which was good because, like I said some were very disturbing....I would recommend this book to people who like dystopian short stories.” -Jennifer K., NetGalley Reviewer
A promotional image that shows three books OTHER EVOLUTIONS by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (chatting on Zoom March 9). AJAR (insta live March 12) FEASTING AND REJOICING (insta live March 19)
A promotional image for an Instagram live conversation called the first 30. Thursday, January 22 5 PM Eastern time 6:30 PM Newfoundland standard time a conversation between Alison Gadsby and Mackenzie Nolan, author of VEAL from ECW press.
A promotional image that includes a photo of author Mackenzie Nolan, a white woman with long brown curly hair pinned up at the front and also hanging down around her shoulders. Writing includes: The First Thirty: Thursday January 22. 7:00pm ET. A writerly chat with Mackenzie Nolan with her novel VEAL from ECW Press. The content is in front of a faded image of the cover of the novel, with parts of a blue xray image of mannequin parts discarded on a black background.
Promo image with six photos of authors, Mackenzie Nolan (white woman with long black curly hair); Meg Todd (White woman with short blonde hair); Margo LaPierre (white woman with long blonde hair); David Bergen (white man shaved head wearing glasses); Umar Turaki (black man, shaved head, short beard, wearing glasses); Leila Marshy (white presenting Palestinian woman with short hair wearing glasses)
Promotional image that includes 9 photos of authors, Nadia Ragbar, Keriann McGoogan, John Cullen, Paul Vermeersch, Mackenzie Nolan, Meg Todd, David Bergen, Umar Turaki and Leila Marshy.
A photo of four women. Left, Alison Gadsby, a white woman with grey-white hair, wearing a white blouse with black pants. Second-left: Martha Baillie, a grey haired white woman wearing a grey-blue dress, third-left, Sara Flemington, a brown-haired white woman wearing a black t-shirt dress under a denim vest, right, Rachel Phan, an East Asian woman wearing a black tank top and green pants.
Promotional image of Louise Ells a white author with long hair. She is smiling. Includes graphics and logos with writing that introduces Louise and the book.
ID: Promotional image with photos that look like instagram posts of photos of books. Ardra Shephard's FALLOSOPHY; Kasia Jaronczyk' s VOICES IN THE AIR, and Karen Smythe's A TOWN WITH NO NOISE. With information about the event: JUNCTION READS, Sunday May 25 ~ 6:30pmET, TYPE Books Junction.
Promotional poster with a photo of Rachel and Harrison Browne, a white brown-haired sister-brother duo, on the left, and a photo of Alie and Hejsa Christensen, a brown-haired mother-daughter duo on the right. Our panel is at 2:30pm at Appleby College in Oakville Ontario.
A promotional image that outlines upcoming dates for our events. They include an in person event at type books Junction on May 25. The first 30 on Instagram live on May 29 at 7 PM Eastern time. A virtual reading on June 8 at 6 PM. Our season finale at type books in the junction on June 22. Another Instagram live event on June 26 at 7 PM Eastern.
A promo image from sub stack with a quote from the actual piece. My first publication, I paid to submit, and when it got accepted, I cried. I didn’t care about the money. I wanted to give all the people who asked, “so when are you going to give up on this writing thing?” proof that all my hard work was paying off. I wanted the credits I needed to join the union, so I could access the benefits of membership, which can include health benefits. I wanted to get the publishing credits a writer needs to apply for grants, residencies and exclusive retreats. I wanted to succeed. Since then, I have published many stories, paid-to-submit, paid-to-publish, free-to-submit, and unpaid-to-publish, and every single acceptance wasn’t about the money, it was the soothing hug I needed to squeeze out the fear of failure that sat (still) under my skin every day, itching to destroy my artistic dreams. It’s a fear that I know all writers and artists have. Will anyone ever read my work, see my art, connect with this dream I’ve had my entire life?
ID 1: A black promo image with a photo of Kevin Wilson (K.R. Wilson), a white man wearing glasses, smiling. His name appears on the upper right side.
A promo graphic with a photo of Kirby, a hairless poet, smiling with a hand on their chin. Details of the event tonight: The First Thirty: Thursday April 17. 7:00pm ET. A writerly chat with Kirby about POETRY IS QUEER and so much more!
A photo of a Chinese man, smiling with a closed mouth. He is wearing wire frame glasses, a black and grey French collar shirt. He is standing in front of a terra cotta coloured brick wall.