Science issue release date + MTL launch party announced!
By Emma Healey
Hey guys!
Summer is still going strong, our Science issue launches August 3rd (as does our call for submissions to issue 4!), and our poetry editor is about to make his triumphant return after spending months away on the high seas. Come help us celebrate in a giant, beautiful backyard full of attractive people (that’s you!).
Featuring awesome outdoor readings from some of our super-talented Montreal contributors, including:
MELISSA BULL
HEATHER DAVIDSON
MICHAEL NARDONE
& musical performances from our pals in LOWLANDS (http://www.lowlandsmusic.com/)
plus the lovely and talented ALANNA GURR (http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Alanna-Gurr)
Doors at 7pm // readings at 8.
BYOB, PWYC, and, as always, we’ll provide the drunk scrabble.
[There’ll be an alternate location for the event in case the weather turns on us; we’ll let you know when we know.]
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ABOUT THE READERS
Melissa Bull’s work has been featured in such publications as Matrix, Maisonneuve, Event and carte blanche. Melissa works as a writer and editor. She lives in Montreal.
Heather Davidson has a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University, where she won the 2011 Irving Layton Award for Fiction. Her writing can be found in publications including The Antigonish Review, Descant, and The New Quarterly. She has a website at www.heatherdavidson.ca.
Michael Nardone is co-editor with Kathleen Brown of the forthcoming issue of dandelion called performance/MACHINE.
ABOUT THE BANDS
Lowlands started as a house band to entertain the admission lineup at the Great Hall in Toronto. The instrumentation of the group perfectly supported the songwriting of Gordon Auld and Abe Del Bel Belluz and eventually they started to bring both their country, delta blues, bluegrass sound into venues, art openings and coffee houses across the city. After a slight line-up change, the band relocated to Guelph Ontario where they have received critical acclaim amongst friends fans and have garnered attention from festivals, promoters and industry professionals. A live version of their song “The Longest Winter” was featured in the IQ’s Music issue, and their self-titled first album is now available at http://www.lowlandsmusic.com/album
Alanna Gurr is a newcomer to the Canadian folk-rock scene who is sure to leave you hungry for more of her sweet and sultry sound. Whether backed up by her minimalistic rock troupe or ably holding her own. Gurr’s songs of longing and heartbreak are complimented by her charming stage presence and a sense of optimistic catharsis. Since the release of her debut self-titled E.P. last summer, through the Open House Arts Collective, she has been steadily gaining momentum. Aside from transfixing audiences in Southern Ontario as an opening act for well-known Canadian bands (Bruce Peninsula, One Hundred Dollars and Daniel, Fred and Julie), this soft-spoken darling snagged the #11 spot on CHRW 94.9’s Best Albums of 2010 and landed in Top 30 Charts of campus radio stations across Canada. The much-anticipated release of her full-length album is set for the summer of 2011, and she plans to make it official with an eastbound tour alongside fellow Guelphites, Lowlands.
ABOUT THE IQ
The Incongruous Quarterly is a Toronto- and Montreal-based online magazine devoted to publishing the best unpublishable literature from across Canada and around the world. Issue #3, guest-edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino and Elizabeth Bachinsky, will be out on August 3rd and feature nonfiction essays on a number of different science-related topics as well as poetry and fiction. For past issues, submission guidelines & pretty much everything else you could ever possibly want to know about us, check out www.incongruousquarterly.com.