The Scream is pleased to announce our ebullient 2009 readers for the Scream in High Park Mainstage:
Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator who’s most recent book is feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008. A collaborative work with Erín Mouré, involving authorial and translational impossibilities, will appear as Expeditions of a Chimæra fall 2009 (BookThug).
Wakefield Brewster has been performing in a musical capacity since age six and writing for the past 16 years; he has made his dynamic presence on the scene with no uncertain terms. Writing in a political yet lyrical voice and performing with audaciousness yet unseen, he has blasted onto nearly 700 stages in the past seven years.
Margaret Christakos is a poet and fiction writer living in Toronto whose work has shown consistent interest in recombinant poetics, process writing and seriality. She has published six collections of poetry and one novel and given readings and seminars from her work since 1989.
Peter Culley from Nanaimo, BC, has published four books of poetry, including, most recently, The Climax Forest (Leech Books). His poetry & writings on visual art have been appearing for three decades in a variety of venues.
Jeramy Dodds lives in Orono, Ontario. His poems have been translated into Finnish, French, Latvian, Swedish, German and Icelandic. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award in poetry.
Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist who is internationally renowned for both his literary and musical performances;
Lisa Foad’s debut story collection, The Night Is A Mouth (Exile Editions, 2009), has been praised by the Globe and Mail as “a brand-new thing.” Lisa lives in Toronto and is at work on her first novel.
Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Her second collection of poetry, Joy Is So Exhausting, is forthcoming from Coach House this fall.
Ryan Kamstra is a writer of poems, fiction, and songs. His first book of poems, Late Capitalist Sublime, was published by Insomniac Press in 2002. As a musician he is also known by the name Scratch Kamstra, and his band, Tomboyfriend, is fast becoming a cult sensation.
Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published in fourteen countries, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award
Andrew Pyper is a Canadian writer of fiction. His fourth novel, The Killing Circle, has been published in the UK, the US and Canada, having been selected as one of the notable crime novels of 2008 by The New York Times.
Adam Sol's third collection of poetry, Jeremiah, Ohio (House of Anansi Press 2008), has been nominated for the 2009 Trillium Award. He is also the author of Jonah's Promise (Mid-List Press, 2000), which won Mid-List Press's First Series Award for Poetry, and Crowd of Sounds (House of Anansi Press, 2003), which won the Trillium Award for Poetry.
Hosted by Misha Glouberman
A fantastic lineup! Be sure to come and listen to them read from their dead books on Monday, July 13, 2009 at the Dream Stage in High Park.
About the 2009 Scream Literary Festival
The 2009 Scream, Canada’s oldest and strangest literary festival, will explore the imminent demise of books, book culture and all that readers hold dear. Faced daily with the decaying vestiges of books, it’s time to stand over the open grave. Join us from July 2nd to 13th as we wander through poetic laments, predictions, ululations and dreams of technological salvation.
Visit http://www.thescream.ca for a list of festival events and performers.
