Pilot Reading Series
30 March
The Pilot Reading Series March Edition
presented by Matrix Magazine, the QWF and Pop Montreal
Robert Glück
Gail Scott
Melissa Bull
J. Mae Barizo
music by Billy Fong Parade
hosted by Mike Spry
Blizzarts 3956A St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
doors @ 8:30
readings @ 9:30
About the Performers:
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist. His new book, Denny Smith, was published by Clear Cut in February. He’s an editor of Narrativity, a website on narrative theory.
Gail Scott was born in Ottawa and grew up in a bilingual community in Eastern Ontario. She worked as a journalist for several years writing about Quebec culture and politics for The Gazette, as well as contributing to The Globe & Mail and Maclean’s. She has been an editor of Spirale and Tessera. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in several journals. She is the author of two novels: Main Brides (1993) and Heroine (1987); Spare Parts, a collection of short stories; and Spaces Like Stairs, a collection of essays. Most recently, she translated Lise Tremblay’s Mile End [La danse juive, Lemeac, 1999]. She lives in Montréal where she teaches at the Universite of Montreal.
Melissa Bull is a graduate of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program, and alumni of the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master’s student at the University of Montreal.
Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo was the winner of New School University’s Year of the Writing award. In 2006 she was a finalist for the Joy Harjo award. In 2007 she received an International Publication Award from Atlanta Review, and was an Editor’s Prize winner of Spoon River Poetry Review. As a prize-winner in the William Stafford Award, she was published in Rosebud. Her work has also appeared in the Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Wordwrights, Poetry Motel, and the Antietam Review, among others. Her poetry chapbook, “The Concert Review”, is forthcoming in 2008. She likes rivers. She lives in New York City.
27 April
The Pilot Reading Series April Edition
A Pistol Press Pilot
Featuring readers from the forthcoming Pistol Press Anthology.
Details soon.
Blizzarts 3956A St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
doors @ 8:30
readings @ 9:30
Praise for The Pilot:
“In a lot of ways, the shows have the informal feel of an intimate music gig…Matrix Magazine’s Pilot Reading Series stands out as a unique Montreal event.” — McGill Daily
“…an evening of engaging poetry and prose by promising young writers.” — indyish.com
“…the city’s premiere live literary soirée.” — The Danforth Review
