Reading Atlantic with Pride

FREE | ACCESSIBLE SPACE | SEATING | DRY

Atlantic Books and Fierté Fredericton Pride present
Reading Atlantic with Pride: A Celebration of Queer Authors

6:30 PM Monday August 15
at The Gallery on Queen

Join us for this free event celebrating New Brunswick-based authors from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Featuring book giveaways and readings by Triny Finlay, Robert Gray, Jenna Lyn Albert, and Rebecca Salazar.

Triny Finlay (https://trinyfinlay.com/)
Triny Finlay is a queer poet, writer, teacher, and mother. Her long poem Myself A Paperclip (Goose Lane 2021) won the 2022 New Brunswick Book Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the 2022 Atlantic Book Award for poetry. She is also the author of the critically-acclaimed books Histories Haunt Us (Nightwood 2010) and Splitting Off (Nightwood 2004), along with the chapbooks Anxious Attachment Style (Anstruther 2022), You don’t want what I’ve got (Junction 2018), and Phobic (Gaspereau 2006). Her writing has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Best Canadian Poetry 2022, Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The London Reader, The Malahat Review, Marsh Blue Violet: A Queer New Brunswick Anthology, and Plenitude. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered land of Wolastoqiyik, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick.

Robert Gray
R. W. Gray is an award-winning screenwriter and director, and author of two books of short stories. His most recent book, Entropic, won the prestigious Thomas Raddall prize for fiction. His poetry has been published in the Broadview Introduction to Literature, the anthology Seminal and magazines such as The Malahat Review, The Windsor Review and ARC Poetry magazine. His feature film Entropic is available on most streaming platforms. He is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

Jenna Lyn Albert (https://jennalynalbert.com/)
Jenna Lyn Albert (she/they | elle/iel) is a queer poet and community organizer living on the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Jenna is a member of The Fiddlehead’s editorial board and cohosts the elm & ampersand poetry podcast with partner-in-rhyme Rebecca Salazar. Their debut collection of poetry Bec & Call (Nightwood Editions 2018) won the New Brunswick Book Awards’ Fiddlehead Poetry Prize. Jenna served a two-year term as the City of Fredericton’s Poet Laureate from 2019–2020, and is currently working on their sophomore collection of poetry, mal à l’aise.

Rebecca Salazar (she/they)
Rebecca Salazar is a queer, brown, and disabled Latinx writer and editor living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Rebecca’s writing has appeared in journals across Turtle Island, in two chapbooks published by indie presses. Her first full-length collection sulphurtongue (M&S Poetry, 2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award. One of the co-founders of BIPOC Pride Fredericton, Rebecca is now working for artsnb, and propagating far too many plants in their apartment.

LOCATION: Gallery on Queen. Limited public street parking and parking at the York Street Car Park.

ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible space with a neutral washroom. Seated event.

COMMUNITY CARE/COVID-19: Masks are required at this indoor event. The door will remain open for airflow and there will be two H13 industrial HEPA air purifiers running. Masks will be available for free at the event.

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