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Three Ring Paper Productions and Art Metropole invite you to Get Your Lit Out! - A Night of Readings, an urban night of readings just in time for Pride Toronto - Fearless 2006. The evening will have people sitting on the edge of their seats as each author takes a turn on the stage. Get Your Lit Out! features a variety of talented authors and favourite performers in the queer community including Mariko Tamaki, Zoe Whittall, Debra Anderson, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kristyn Dunnion (Miss Kitty Galore), Sandra Alland among others. All will be reading from previously published books or new works-in-progress. Hosting the evening will be local performance artist Jess Dobkin, fresh from the Edgy Women Festival in Montreal. Don't miss this essential Pride event. Come early to grab a set, check out the space and each other. Door open at 7 PM and the event will run until 10 PM. Food and refreshments will be served. Performers will have books for sale and readers will be available for book signings. This is a free, all ages event. We regret that the event is not wheelchair accessible.  Sandra Alland  Zoe Whittal (red dress seated) speaks with Mariko Tamaki (blue & black sweater, standing)  The evening's MC, Jess Dobkin  Zoe Whittal reads to the crowd  Crowd  Crowd  Steph Rogerson speaks with Debra Anderson, the evening's organizer Artist Biographies mariko tamaki is a Toronto writer and performer whose most recent book, Fake ID, was released by Women's Press in 2005. Mariko's next book, a graphic novella illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki, will be released by Groundwood Books in Spring 2008. Mariko was also recently included in the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour. Sandra Alland is a writer, performer, multi-media artist, micropress publisher, curator and activist. Her first book of poetry, Proof of a Tongue, was published in 2004 by McGilligan Books. Her work has been published and presented in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Spain, Scotland, England and the United States. Other joys in Sandra's life are: working at This Ain't the Rosedale Library; hosting In Other Words on CKLN; and co-parenting a hedgehog. Kristyn Dunnion is a saucy tart. She is the author of Missing Matthew, a quirky mystery novel for 8-10 year olds, and Mosh Pit, a queer punk novel for young adults. She has short stories in these collections: The Horrors: Terrifying Tales, With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, and Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws. Kristyn has a story in the forthcoming anthology Peripheries: Erotic Lesbian Futures. Her next novel is forthcoming Fall 2006 and is entitled Big, Big Sky. She is also the trash-talking hostess Miss Kitty Galore. Hear her roar! Debra Anderson is an award-winning writer and a graduate of the York University Creative Writing Program. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan Books, 2003), Bent: On Writing (Women's Press, 2002), and Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002) as well as many literary journals across Canada. She was featured in the Winter 2006 issue of Trade: Queer Things magazine. Her first novel, Code White, published this fall by McGilligan Books, was described by Broken Pencil magazine as "…the kind of book that those 'chick lit' books have nightmares about." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her first book, Consensual Genocide, was published by TSAR Books in April 2006. She believes in the power of the written and spoken word to heal, decolonize and change the world. Zoe Whittall is the author of The Emily Valentine Poems, which will be out this August with Snare Books. Her first book of fiction will be out next spring with Cormorant Books and is called Bottle Rocket Hearts and other stories. She's a freelance cultural critic whose writing has appeared in a variety of Canadian newspapers including Now Magazine and the Globe and Mail. Her first book was called The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life and she also edited the anthology Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws, both published by McGilligan Books. Contact:
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