18. SUBMISSIONS AND SELECTIONS
Virtual Event
In this workshop-panel mashup, three publishing professionals dive into the difficult process of selecting work for a collective publication while tackling important tips and tricks that all writers should know when it comes to making submissions. Moderated by Natasha Ramoutar.
Date: May 2, 2023
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
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The 2023 festival will run from April 30 – May 7. Dedicated virtual programming on our innovative, online platform will run April 30 – May 3, while in-person events — many of which will also be live-streamed and available on-demand for virtual audiences — will run May 4-7.
A Virtual Festival Pass gives guests access to more than 20 virtual events which can be viewed from the website or through our festival app designed for mobile devices. In addition to festival events, virtual passes provide users with direct access to more than a dozen vendors in our festival exhibitor hall. Guests who purchase a virtual pass can also participate in trivia times, roundtable discussions and our new festival after-parties, which will follow all of our evening events.
An In-Person Festival Pass gives users access to all of our virtual events as well as our standard in-person events in Brampton, Ontario on Saturday, May 6.
This year, the festival includes three in-person Specialty Events – the Dine N’ Draw on May 4, the Literary Cabaret on May 5 and our Historical Fiction High Tea on May 7. Tickets for these events are not covered with our passes and are only available until April 30.
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Kerry C. Byrne an autistic, queer and nonbinary editor/community organizer/writer/cat lover living in Toronto, ON. They are the Co-Founder and Publisher of Augur Magazine, as well as the Co-Director of AugurCon, a two-day Canadian speculative literature event. As a writer, their fiction and poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Solarpunk Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, THIS Magazine, and others. Otherwise, they can be found rifling through the depths of their D&D world, Illaran. Find them on Twitter as @kercoby.
Anita Chong is Executive Editor at McClelland & Stewart, where she edits literary fiction and memoir, and champions writers from traditionally underrepresented communities. Books she has edited include Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife, Tsering Yangzom Lama’s We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, Sharon Bala’s The Boat People, Reema Patel’s Such Big Dreams, Michael Christie’s Greenwood, and, most recently, Jen Sookfong Lee’s Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart and Janika Oza’s A History of Burning. Anita is also the manager of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for emerging Canadian writers.
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee. She has been a guest editor and judge for Poetry in Voice. Her first book, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug, and was a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Awards and the 2021 Indies Foreward Review. She lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.
Natasha Ramoutar is a writer of Indo-Guyanese descent from Scarborough. Her debut poetry collection Bittersweet was published in 2020 by Mawenzi House.