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Boobs launch packed the Heartwood Cafe

02 Monday May 2016

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Boobs, Events & Appearances, Publications, Reading

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Authors for Indies, Authors for Indies 2016, Bonnie Nish, Boobs, Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts, Book Warehouse, Book Warehouse Broadway, Caitlin Press, Canlit, Christina Myers, Emily Davidson, Emily Wight, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Heartwood Café, Heartwood Community Cafe, Jónína Kirton, Kate Braid, Laura Ritland, Lynn Easton, Maggie Wojtarowicz, Matthew Walsh, Michael Despotovic, Plenitude Magazine, Pulp Fiction, ROOM Magazine, Sara Graefe, Sierra Skye Gemma, Taryn Hubbard, Terri Braudmueller, Vancouver, Vici Johnstone, Zuri Scrivens

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to Heartwood Community Cafe on Friday night and joined me and many of the contributors for a fantastic Vancouver launch of Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts. (If you missed it, or just want more Boobs events in your future, don’t worry: more events are coming soon.) It was an unforgettable night, with an incredibly warm and supportive audience. I enjoyed chatting to everyone who came up to me to ask about the book or tell me what it means to them. I feel so privileged to be a part of bringing these stories and poems to a wider audience.

We had a terrific line-up of authors who read from their work in the book: Kate Braid, Maggie Wojtarowicz, Sara Graefe, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Sierra Skye Gemma, Emily Davidson, Emily Wight, Taryn Hubbard, and Laura Ritland.

Thanks to Heartwood for hosting the launch of Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts. I was so excited to see our packed house!
Thanks to Heartwood for hosting the launch of Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts. I was so excited to see our packed house!
Kate Braid read her two poems from the book: "Always Keep Your Tools Sharp" and "Breasts."
Kate Braid read her two poems from the book: “Always Keep Your Tools Sharp” and “Breasts.”
Maggie Wojtarowicz wowed the audience with her moving performance of "Reclaiming my Thorns"
Maggie Wojtarowicz wowed the audience with her moving performance of “Reclaiming my Thorns”
Sara Graefe read from her shining, intelligent story, "Variety Pack"
Sara Graefe read from her shining, intelligent story, “Variety Pack”
Fiona Tinwei Lam made us all giggle with her thoughts on nipples
Fiona Tinwei Lam made us all giggle with her thoughts on nipples
Sierra Skye Gemma read from her powerful story, "So Big Men Can't Help Themselves"
Sierra Skye Gemma read from her powerful story, “So Big Men Can’t Help Themselves”
Yours truly addressing the amazing crowd at Heartwood Cafe. Photo by Caitlin Press.
Yours truly addressing the amazing crowd at Heartwood Cafe. Photo by Caitlin Press.
Emily Wight had us all in stitches with her hilarious story "Celebrate Your Curves with Free Shipping"
Emily Wight had us all in stitches with her hilarious story “Celebrate Your Curves with Free Shipping”
Emily Davidson read from her story of female friendship, "The Exhibitionist"
Emily Davidson read from her story of female friendship, “The Exhibitionist”
Taryn Hubbard entertained us with an excerpt from "Pinches," her story about confidence, bras, and adolescent media
Taryn Hubbard entertained us with an excerpt from “Pinches,” her story about confidence, bras, and adolescent media
Laura Ritland closed off the evening with her gorgeous poem, "Your Body is Growing"
Laura Ritland closed off the evening with her gorgeous poem, “Your Body is Growing”

I wish I’d thought to get photos of the many other wonderful people who were there, including Matthew Walsh from Plentitude; Terri Brandmueller, Bonnie Nish, and Jónína Kirton from Room Magazine; and Anita who came from Pulp Fiction to sell copies of the book! Thank you so much for coming out and supporting the launch! And of course a huge thank you to Heartwood Cafe for hosting us. Thank you to Vici Johnstone, publisher of Caitlin Press, for believing in the project right from the beginning, and to Michael Despotovic who helped plan this party!

Boobs copies at launch

Photo by Matthew Walsh @croonjuice

I was also completely warmed to see Zuri Scrivens, Christina Myers, and Lynn Easton at the launch, who also have work in the anthology. Please keep watching the Caitlin Press website for info on future Boobs events and come out to hear them read from their own stories. Every single piece in the book is incredibly important. I can’t stress enough how proud I am that I get to be a part of a project that helps these important stories and poems get heard.

For more about the book, check out the information on the Caitlin Press catalogue for Boobs. And for more information about future events, check out the Boobs, the Anthology: Canada Tour listings.

Thanks also to everyone who dropped by Book Warehouse Broadway on Saturday between noon and 1pm to buy books and chat with me! I had a lot of fun participating in Authors for Indies. Thanks to Caitlin and everyone at Book Warehouse Broadway for having me!

Ruth Daniell: Honourary Bookseller
Ruth Daniell: Honourary Bookseller
Authors for Indies 2016 at Book Warehouse Broadway
Authors for Indies 2016 at Book Warehouse Broadway

Boobs, The Anthology: Vancouver Book Launch

14 Thursday Apr 2016

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Boobs, Events & Appearances, Non-fiction/Memoir, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized

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Boobs, Boobs book launch, Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts, book launch, Caitlin Press, Emily Davidson, Emily Wight, Heartwood Café, Heartwood Community Cafe, Kate Braid, Laura Ritland, Maggie Wojtarowicz, Plenitude Magazine, ROOM Magazine, Ruth Daniell, Sara Graefe, Sierra Skye Gemma, Taryn Hubbard, Vancouver, Vancouver literary event

Please RSVP to the Vancouver launch of Boobs here.

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You’re invited to the launch of Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts at the Heartwood Community Cafe at 317 East Broadway, Vancouver. Join the editor—that’s me!—and many contributors for multiple readings of true stories and poetry. Books will be available for sale and signing. It’s going to be a really fun night. At the launch party, we’ll be joined by the good folks at Room, Canada’s oldest literary journal by and for women, and also Plenitude, Canada’s queer literary magazine. Such good company!

The event is being graciously hosted by Heartwood Community Cafe! Delicious snacks AND literature! What could be more fun on a Friday evening?

Given that space is limited, please RSVP for free admission. We are expecting a full house so RSVP soon!

Geeking out at Heartwood Café for the ROOM Magazine issue launch

24 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Events & Appearances, Poetry, Publications

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Canlit, event, fairy tale poetry, fairy tales, Garth Martens, Geek Girls, Heartwood Café, Julia Dillon-Davis, Kayla Czaga, Kelly S Thompson, Meghan Bell, Paula Lemke, poetry, reading, ROOM Magazine, Taryn Hubbard, The Brightest Thing, Vancovuer

Room launch Twitter 2I had a wonderful time at Room’s fall launch last night!

For the first set, Kayla Czaga read her heartwrenching/heart-warming nonfiction piece from issue 37.2, “Expanding the Voice.” Then Paula Lemke read a story that was recogonized with an honourable mention in the 2014 Room Contest – Fiction Category, and Kelly Thompson read a great nonfiction story that was also shortlisted for the competition this year.

The second set was for “the geeks,” when both Julia Dillon-Davis and I read poetry from issue 37.3, “Geek Girls.” Julia was an excellent reader of her own work, including her poem from the issue, “Rites,” which she introduced as a poem “about her decade-long obsession with Buffy.” This was met with complete approval, of course.

Room launch 5I read my poems from “Geek Girls” again (I previously performed them at WORD Vancouver). “Fairy Tales I” is about how hard it is to be a geeky grade six girl, and “Fairy Tales II” is about the power of having imaginary friends and a great brother. Then I read three other poems from my manuscript, The Brightest Thing. None of the extra poems had been tested in front of an audience before, and I was happy to have such a receptive audience! I read a poem inspired by “Hansel and Gretel,” another based on Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard,” and ended with a love poem with traces of Perrault’s telling of “Cinderella.”

I have so much gratitude to all my fellow writers and to the hard-working editors of Room. Taryn Hubbard and Meghan Bell made the night go smoothly and brightened up the evening with their enthusiasm! Even if, or especially because, they kept calling me a geek.

Alright, so, who’s excited for the Vancouver Writers Fest? I’m going to a bunch of events this weekend before I have to head back to work. Maybe we’ll run into each other? Say hi!

Me performing my fairy tale poems for the wonderful audience at Heartwood Café

Me performing my fairy tale poems for the wonderful audience at Heartwood Café

Room launch 3

Photo credits: James Daniell

I was also so pleased that Garth Martens (currently on the shortlist for the Governor General Award for Poetry for Prologue for the Age of Consequence, from which he read at Swoon this past spring) was in town, and he was able to come make it to Heartwood for the Room launch! He’s here from Victoria to catch some of the Writers Fest this weekend. He generously tweeted his excitement before the Room launch last night:

So excited to hear @JuliaDiDa and @ruthedaniell at tonight's @RoomMagazine launch. http://t.co/k6SRurGcSO #yvr pic.twitter.com/WNUBZBT7y0

— Garth Martens (@GarthMartens) October 23, 2014

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Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts

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