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Issue 67, our Spring issue, hits newsstands today! Featuring work by Justin Ling, Jennifer Verma, Mirjam Guesgen, Erin Flegg, Karoun Chahinian, Daniel Panneton, Tatum Dooley, Jiaqing Yang, Benjamin Hertwig, Tim Forster, Luc Rinaldi, Will Keats-Osborn, Melissa Bull, Alex Noel and more.
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Our Summer 2018 issue hits newsstands June 15! On our cover: over the past year, thousands of people have crossed an “irregular” part of Quebec’s southern border. Media called it a predicament, even a resource drain—but as the newcomers settled into Montreal, Heather Robb, locals didn’t see it that way at all.
Plus new work from Kelsey Rolfe, Lorax B. Horne, Kate Black, Sara King-Abadi, M. Marcel, Godfre Leung, M.a. Jones, Andrew Querner, Maj Ogabo & Andrea Bennett, Melissa Bull, Catherine Voyer-Léger, Sharon Bala, Anna Swanson, Luc Rinaldi & more!
Maisonneuve added an event.
Maisonneuve's summer issue is packed with Montreal stories from great local writers! Come hear lightning-round readings and, for aspiring writers, attend a pitch session with our editors.
Drawn & Quarterly will co-host with a showcase of new books!
From this issue: the joys and frustrations of resettling refugees, a child missionary who lost faith, a generation of babies who outlived their life expectancies, millennial train travel, herding sheep in MTL and more.
... 4:00 - 4:30: Pitch session. Come with a pitch or with questions.
4:30 - 5:30: Readings
For more info please message Maisonneuve. See you there!
When the nation’s non-rural citizens—more than 80 percent of the population—picture a dairy farm, they probably picture an idyllic scene: cows scattered along rolling green pastures; a red, hay-filled barn nearby in case the cows need to seek shelter. This scene, however, is far from reality. Instead, three quarters of Canadian farms use the tie-stall system, where cows are chained inside metal pens not much bigger than two phone booths laid down side by side.
"Thirty years after he died, I hold one of the many letters Pop wrote to my father. It’s written in blue ink with cursive writing on lined paper showing its age, discoloured beige with frayed edges. The letter is dated January 27, 1979, the year before I was born. It begins, “Dear sun Don. Just a few words to let you now I recived your litter whas good to hear from you over their. and whas very glad what yous send me…” To touch those words on the page, as imperfect as they ar...e, is remarkable. To think, Pop broke the literacy barrier that held him and so many like him back. As I read the letter, I’m filled with pride. But I also wonder how Pop would feel to know poor literacy still threatens Newfoundlanders today."
Now available online from our Spring issue: Jennifer Verma on literacy and resilience in her home province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Check out Maisy contributor Jen Neale's book, Land Mammals and Sea Creatures!
Looking for a great journalism internship? Apply by Monday to work on Maisonneuve's next two issues!
Maisonneuve is looking for interns for our next two issues! Please spread the word.
The air was electric inside the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women on the morning of June 25, 1948. The night before, a seventeen-year-old inmate had been carried off by guards after attacking a “squealer.” They were escorting her to solitary confinement, known as “the hole,” when several inmates heard the crashing sounds of a scuffle. Rumours quickly spread about what had happened, and prisoners came to believe that staff had thrown the teenager down a flight of stairs. After matrons threatened them with a leather strap, so the story goes, inmates began making plans—quietly—to protest.
"A large unit above an auto garage in a strip of two-storey brick buildings, the Hotel2Tango was sandwiched between Van Horne Avenue on one side and the Mile End train tracks on the other. When trains passed by, the walls shuddered and the floorboards creaked 'like a boat,' remembers Jessica Moss, who played violin in A Silver Mt. Zion.
Maisonneuve shared their event.
This Saturday! These two authors are brilliant on their own, so we can't wait to see Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on the same stage as Robyn Maynard, talking about their work. Doors open at 1:30.
All proceeds from this event will go towards raising the rates we can pay our own talented writers and artists.
Maisonneuve shared their event.
Super-excited to announce this event in mid-April! Two amazing writers speaking together for the first time. Please share.
Maisonneuve added an event.
Acclaimed Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (As We Have Always Done) will speak with Black feminist writer Robyn Maynard (Policing Black Lives) about themes in their books and their work.
Maisonneuve is excited to host this event as a fundraiser. All profits will go towards raising rates for our writers.
Tiered pricing available at the door:
... $10 for students and people with low incomes
$20 general admission
$30 with a free subscription to the mag
Advance tickets at $20 available online:
https://www.lfttckt.com/tickets/lfttkt-casa-1521553726-21243
La Sala Rossa is located at 4848 St Laurent Blvd. We regret that the venue is not accessible by elevator: there are three short fights of stairs, with 38 steps total. If this makes the event inaccessible to you, please email selena@maisonneuve.org, since we may be able to offer an alternative.
Additional special event available by invitation to young Quebec-based BIPOC writers! Please email selena@maisonneuve.org if interested.
