GLAD DAY LIT PRESENTS The LGBTQ Festival of Words Financial support is absolutely crucial to build this tradition of bringing people together from across the North America. The organizations and people below have made it possible OUR VISION TO OUR COMMUNITIES to spread the word about Naked Heart, and more importantly, compensate our authors To establish a yearly Canadian LGBTQ How do we join a community we and speakers for sharing their gifts with us. We thank you for your generosty. literary festival that amplifies love, are not born into? How do we nuture language & freedom. our desires? How do we turn pain FESTIVAL FAIRY GODPARENT FESTIVAL SUPPORTER into love? How do we find each other? $2000+ Donation $75+ Donation OUR GOALS How do we build a better future? Glad Day Bookshop Sweets From The Earth • Strengthen literacies and the literary The answer for many of us is story. Amber Dawn community of LGBTQ people. FESTIVAL SUPERSTAR Anil Kamal What’s missing in our lesbian, gay, $1000+ Donation Billeh Nickerson • Create spaces for people to find new work, new opportunities, bi, trans, two-spirit and queer Buddies In Bad Times Carol Rosenfeld new friends and new lovers. communities? How do we create Brad Pyne Design Casey Oraa Michael Erickson Cherie Dimaline • Increase supports for under- space for possibility? Where do we Penguin Random House Christopher Gudgeon represented identities, experiences listen to each other when we don’t Faye Chisholm Guenther and forms of language. feel heard? How do we circulate Henderson Brewing Company FESTIVAL CATALYST • Build bridges between people of our own stories outside of industries Jessica L. Webb $500+ Donation different generations and cultures jia qing wilson-yang owned and controlled by forces Michael V. Smith in the LGBTQ community. Mitchel Raphael Kai Cheng Thom that use us for their own gain? • Use story as a catalyst to resist Pluck Tea Megan Milks Where can we build relationships Mutch Property Group oppression, explore desire, and solidarity in the flesh? The answer increase love & heal trauma for Nathan Adler for us might be Naked Heart. FESTIVAL FRIEND Troy Jackson anyone whose gender or sexual $250+ Donation identity doesn’t fit society’s narrow Gwen Benaway limits and expectations. You are an important part of this ONE Properties, 562 Church FESTIVAL DONOR Festival created by Glad Day Book- $25+ Donation Lauryn Kronick shop and our allies. We hope you Mona Faith Mousa Arielle Twist Sweets From The Earth Farzana Doctor share our Festival vision and our goals Jody Chan this year and that we can count on granting bodies Kristen Ringman your support in the coming years. Kristyn Dunnion Your presence, your creativity, Michaela Washburn Monica Garrido your openess and your story is Nina Nesseth deeply appreciated. Omar Ramirez Thom Cho Let’s make a little history this weekend. Michael Erickson presented by sponsored by Festival Coordinator, Naked Heart Co-owner, Glad Day Bookshop DESIGN GLAD DAY BRAD PYNE BOOKSHOP 1 PROGRAM TYPE VENUES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10 11:00 am - 12:15 pm PANELS: A panel is a group of GLAD DAY BOOKSHOP (GDB) THE WRITER’S HUSTLE (BBT) speakers who discuss a topic with 499 Church Street AHMED DANNY RAMADAN, BÄNOO ZAN, KAI CHENG THOM a moderator and some audience How do we pay those bills? How do find the energy to write? How do participation. BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES (BBT) institutions like Can Lit, publishers and Pride Festivals support or deny us? 12 Alexander Street How do we push back against the isolation that Capitalism creates? WORKSHOPS: Our workshops focus on building skills, insight and 56IX2 (562) WITNESS (GDB) knowledge. They are often interactive 562 Church Street with TYLER PENNOCK and are led by someone experienced Participants learn the process of how to bring a story forward into the world and skilled on their topic. Sessions with this sympbol will from within themselves - this form of storytelling is a form of parallel creation, have ASL interpretation. where the details of the original story are never repeated. READINGS: This is your classic literary event – it is a gathering IT’S IN THE STARS: of writers reading brief selections BUILDING CHARACTERS BASED ON ASTROLOGY (562) of their writing. There may be time with DEBRA ANDERSON for audience questions at the end. For this creative writing workshop, you don’t need to know anything about astrology to attend. All you do is write! I will launch us from the fun foundation SPECIAL EVENTS: Social events, of the zodiac as a place of inspiration. keynote talks & book launches. 12:30 - 1:45 pm #METOO (BBT) ALEX CAFARELLI, CLEMENTINE MORRIGAN, DORIANNE EMMERTON, TYLER PENNOC FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 Survivors reflect on how experiences of sexual assault or harassment informs 6:30 - 8:30 pm their work, the relationship between writing and healing, the legacy of trauma and what a future of increased justice and solidarity might look like. SICK THEORIES : SICKNESS AND SEXUALITY (GDB) POST-CONFERENCE SOCIAL UNRULY VISIONS : Writing Unruly Bodies in Fiction (562) This is the wind down of the Sick Theories conference. It’s a time to reflect on with SANCHARI SUR the events and connect with each other. There will also be short readings by What are unruly bodies? How are they written into fiction? Who can write authors sprinkled through the evening. them? These are some of the questions that will be discussed and pondered 9:00 - 10:30 pm upon during this workshop. WE WILL NOT BE ERASED (GDB) 1:45 - 2:15 pm ARIELLE TWIST, HEATH V. SALAZAR, LEE AIRTON, MANDY GOODHANDY, SANCHARI SUR, TERRENCE ABRAHAMS hosted by CHARLIE C PETCH LUNCH BREAK An evening of readings by trans, non-binary & genderqueer authors. 10:30 pm - 2:00 am TRANSDANGEROUS! (GDB) A DANCE PARTY with DJ NIK RED Let’s burn down the binary on the dance floor! 2 3 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10 2:15 - 3:30 pm SUBJECT LINE: SUBMISSION GETTING YOUR WRITING SUBMISSION-READY (562) nîtisânak by LINDSAY NIXON (BBT) with TERRENCE ABRAHAMS Book Launch with special guests overwhelmed by the amount of lit mags out there? Unsure if your work is the How do you honour blood and chosen kin with equal care? A groundbreaking right fit for any of them? Feeling a little less than confident about the submission memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, Lindsay process? From poetry to creative non-fiction, this workshop will look at how to Nixon’s nîtisânak is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also best prepare you and your writing for submission to literary journals and beyond. explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same. 5:15 - 6:30 pm QUEER EST UN MOT FRANÇAIS! (GDB) SPECTRUMS OF SANITY: MENTAL HEALTH AND THE WRITER (BBT) AMÉLIE DUMoULIN, PIERRE-LUC LANDRY, SYLVIE BÉRARD GREG WONG, HANA SHAFI, PETER KNEGT, SLY SARKISOVA, STAR SPIDER avec ARNAUD BAUDRY Revisiting one of the most significant panels of the first Naked Heart Festival Joignez-vous à nous pour une lecture public entièrement en français réunissant in 2015, writers openly share their struggles and strategies when mental trois auteur·e·s primé·e·s: Pierre-Luc Landry, gagnant du Prix du livre health becomes a source of creativity or crisis in the writing process. d’Ottawa pour Les corps extraterrestres [Listening for Jupiter] (2015); Amélie Dumoulin, gagnante du Prix des libraires dans la catégorie Jeunesse 12-17 THE TIGER FLU by LARISSA LAI (GDB) Québec pour Fé M F (2015); et Sylvie Bérard, gagnante du Prix Trillium dans Book LAUNCH with special guests: FARZANA DoCToR, la catégorie poésie de langue française pour Oubliez (2017). SHANI MooToo, and SHYAM SELVADURAI Celebrate the launch of ‘The Tiger Flu’ by Larissa Lai with readings by Shani WRITING MAGIC (562) Mootoo, Farzana Doctor and, of course, Larissa Lai. After the readings there with SABRINA SCOTT will a brief time for questions, followed by a book signing. We commune with queer and trans ancestors, channel divinity, and manifest magic in our lives. But how can we translate all of these often wordless and 6:30 - 7:30 pm deeply embodied experiences into writing? Walk away with writing techniques and prompts that merge spiritual practice and creative practice, DINNER BREAK writing and/as ritual. 7:30 - 8:45 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm LEGENDARY CONVERSATIONS LEGENDARY CONVERSATIONS: JEWELLE GOMEZ (BBT) LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA (BBT) Interviewed by KIM KATRIN MILAN Interviewed by KAI CHENG THOM We are thrilled to have Jewelle Gomez at Naked Heart in a rare Toronto A prolific writer, cultural worker and teacher, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna- appearance. The legendary writer, poet, activist, organizer and author of the Samarasinha’s legacy echoes through the literary world and grassroots organizing. first Black Lesbian vampyre novel (The Gilda Chronicles) will be interviewed Kai Cheng Thom will host this in-depth interview with Leah, exploring the by the always dynamic Kim Katrin Milan. complexities of care work and the dynamics of ‘social justice’, imperfection, pedestals, self care and love. SWELLING WITH PRIDE: QUEER CONCEPTION AND ADOPTION STORIES (GDB) ARABESQUE: THE Q IN THE ARABIA (GDB) Book LAUNCH with SARA GRAEFE (editor), GAIL MARLENE SCHWARTZ AHMED DANNY RAMADAN, BASHAR LULU JABBoUR, kAMAL AL-SoLAYLEE, JANE BYERS, Jo JEFFERSoN, kIRA MEYERS-GUIDEN, RACHEL EPSTEIN, MoNA FAITH MoUSA, NARI, hosted by kERoLoS SALEIB SUSAN MEYERS, SUSAN G. CoLE Queer and Trans voices are emerging from the Middle East after years of In Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, creative silencing and muting by Homophobia, dictatorships, and Arab Springs. Join non-fiction writers celebrate LGBTQ2 families and the myriad of ways we those Arabian artists as they tell you the beautiful truths about being apart of embark upon our parenting journeys.