We’re thrilled to launch 𝗨𝗽:𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 — A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions
Join us on 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬 to meet the contributing writers and editors, hear live readings, and take home your own 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆! Light refreshments will be served.
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Sunday, November 30 at 7PM
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Glad Day Lit @gladdaybookshop at 32 Lisgar St. Toronto, ON, M6K 0C7
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸
Featuring both new and established writers, this diverse collection of short stories and poems shatters stereotypes of mental health and addiction in a miasma of razor shards as glitteringly beautiful as they are piercing.
In these pages, the self is dissolved and re-made; reality is pulled from its moorings and turned inside out; and the human spirit, even in its most brutalized states, stops at nothing to find beauty in the fractures of a hostile world.
𝗨𝗽:𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 is an unapologetic chorus of Mad voices that refuse to conform or cower in the shadows. It was born from a collaboration between two organizations rooted in community care: Workman Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization supporting artists with lived experience of mental health and/or addictions; and 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 @tangled_wilderness , a collectively-run publisher of radical culture grounded in anarchist ideals.
We invited writers with lived experience of mental health and/or addiction issues from across Canada to send us their stories, poems, daydreams, imaginings, and manifestos around all the things it can mean to rebel.
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