Events
Upcoming Events
NEW YORK
McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 7PM
FREE
Celebrating the US release of Emily Schultz's Trillium short-listed Heaven Is Small and Zoe Whittall's Holding Still For As Long As Possible, the two authors are teaming up with Joyland New York authors for a night of readings.
Readers
AMANDA STERN is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Long Haul published by Soft Skull Press. She’s the founder, curator and host of the well-respected and popular The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. She blogs about her series and culture at her blog, Lessons in Culture. Lessons in Curating. http://happyendingseries.blogspot.com
EMILY SCHULTZ is the author of the novel Heaven Is Small, which was called “a stunning, often surprising read with moments of such audacity that the reader is likely to gasp out loud” by the Vancouver Sun. Having lived in the Midwest and Virginia, Schultz now resides in Toronto where she co founded the literary website Joyland. http://www.joyland.ca
ZOE WHITTALL is the author of two novels - Holding Still For As Long As Possible, and Bottle Rocket Hearts. The Globe and Mail wrote that she "might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler.” http://zoewhittall.blogspot.com/
JIM HANAS lives in Brooklyn and is the author of the collection Why They Cried, which features stories originally appearing in McSweeney’s, Fence, Significant Objects and others. It’s the first publication from Joyland eBooks. http://hanasiana.com/
Host BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS is the other half of Joyland and the author of Ronald Reagan My Father, which was recently longlisted for the $50,000 Frank O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction.
READINGS FROM JOYLAND SAN FRANCISCO
Dog Eared Books
900 Valencia Street
FRIDAY SEPT 17, 8PM
FREE
FEATURING: PETER ORNER, EMILY SCHULTZ, BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS, TAMAR HALPERN, RUTH GALM, and HELENE WECKER
Celebrating the US release of books from Joyland founders Emily Schultz (the Trillium Award nominated novel Heaven Is Small) and Brian Joseph Davis (the Frank O’Connor Prize longlisted Ronald Reagan, My Father) the two Toronto authors are teaming up with San Franciscans for a night of readings.
READERS
PETER ORNER is the author of the novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a collection, Esther Stories, finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award and a New York Times Notable Book. He lives in San Francisco.
EMILY SCHULTZ is the author of the novel Heaven Is Small, which the Vancouver Sun called “a stunning, often surprising read with moments of such audacity that the reader is likely to gasp out loud.” Having lived in the Midwest and Virginia, Schultz now resides in Toronto where she co-founded the literary website Joyland. http://www.joyland.ca
BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS is the author of Portable Altamont, a collection that garnered praise from Spin magazine for its “elegant, wise-a** rush of truth, hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes.” Slate called his novel I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams” and his collection of short fiction, Ronald Reagan My Father, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize. He is the co-founder of Joyland.
TAMAR HALPERN is a screenwriter and director whose feature films include Shelf Life and Your Name Here. She is the recipient of fellowships from Hedgebrook and DreamAgo, and of the Paramount Screenwriting Fellowship and Jack Oakie Comedy Screenwriting Award. She is at work on a story collection about about being sixteen in the 1980s.
HELENE WECKER received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York. Her work has been heard at the KGB Bar in New York and the Barbershop Reading Series in San Francisco. After a dozen years of moving around between both coasts and the Midwest, she is finally settling down in the East Bay, and is hard at work on her first novel, The Golem and the Djinni.
RUTH GALM received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She lives in San Francisco, where she is working on a novel.
Host KARA LEVY is Joyland’s San Francisco editor. Her work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Mississippi Review Prize Issue 2009, Zen Monster, and Narrative, where it was a winner of the 30Below Prize for writers under 30. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she was a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at the Center for Steinbeck Studies in San Jose. She lives in San Francisco.
CHICAGO
Readings From Joyland 2
The Bookcellar
4736 North Lincoln Avenue
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 7PM
FREE
READINGS FROM: EMILY SCHULTZ, BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS, CHARLES MCLEOD, MEGAN STIELSTRA and others
Celebrating the US release of books from Joyland founders Emily Schultz (the Trillium Award-nominated novel Heaven Is Small) and Brian Joseph Davis (the Frank O’Connor Prize longlisted Ronald Reagan, My Father) the two Toronto authors are teaming up with Chicagoans for a night of readings.
READERS
EMILY SCHULTZ is the author of the novel Heaven Is Small, which the Vancouver Sun called “a stunning, often surprising read with moments of such audacity that the reader is likely to gasp out loud.” Having lived in the Midwest and Virginia, Schultz now resides in Toronto where she co-founded the literary website Joyland. http://www.joyland.ca
BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS is the author of Portable Altamont, a collection that garnered praise from Spin magazine for its “elegant, wise-ass rush of truth, hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes.” Slate called his novel I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams” and his collection of short fiction, Ronald Reagan My Father, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize. He is the co-founder of Joyland.
MEGAN STIELSTRA is the Literary Director for 2nd Story (http://www.2ndstory.com), a personal narrative performance series dedicated to bringing people together through story. She’s told stories for The Goodman, The Steppenwolf, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and Chicago Public Radio, among others, and is a Literary Death Match Champ. Her fiction has appeared in Other Voices, Fresh Yarn, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Perigee, Annalemma, Venus, and Punk Planet, and has been performed by Chicago’s Theatre Seven and Bohemian Archeology in NYC. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Columbia College and The University of Chicago. Visit her at http://www.meganstielstra.com.
Joyland’s Midwest editor CHARLES MCLEOD’s fiction has appeared in publications including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. His debut collection, National Treasures, and debut novel, American Weather, will be published simultaneously by Random House UK/Harvill Secker in 2011. He lives in Macomb, Illinois, and teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University.
Previous Events
NEW YORK: The Fiction Feed 2
Monday, April 5, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm
McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
FREE
The Fiction Feed 2 is a follow up to last fall’s reading and raucous debate about fiction and technology organized by literary website Joyland. This installment features author and Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis, Cursor’s Richard Nash, and blogger and author Jim Hanas.
Brian Joseph Davis is the author of I, Tania, a novel that Slate.com called “The book of your fever dreams.” His music and radio productions have been acclaimed by Wired, Pitchfork, Salon, and LA Weekly. Davis is co-founder of Joyland, which the CBC called “the go-to spot for readers seeking the best in short fiction.” His new book of short fiction, Ronald Reagan My Father is out April 1.
Richard Nash ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007 and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. He’s developing a start-up called Cursor, a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called Red Lemonade.
Jim Hanas is the author of Cassingle: Five Stories (2009) and Single: Two Stories (2006), two e-book collections of short stories that previously appeared in McSweeney's, Fence, One Story, the Land-Grant College Review, Bridge, Twelve Stories, and elsewhere. His non-fiction and humor pieces have appeared in Slate, Radar, Print, and the New York Post.
CHICAGO: Joyland vs. Cellstories
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Quimby's , 1854 West North Avenue
FREE
Brian Joseph Davis will read and perform along with Chicago's Paul M. Davis, whose work has appeared on CellStories.
Together with Dan Sinker they will jabber about the state of fiction and technology.
Dan Sinker is the founder of Punk Planet magazine and is the creator of CellStories, which provides a new short story or essay everyday and has been recently praised in Publisher’s Weekly for its bold approach to networked reading.
Paul M. Davis writes articles, essays and fiction, plays music, and lives in Chicago, IL. He also edits Is Greater Than, an online magazine of culture and literature.
LOS ANGELES: Readings from Joyland LA
Friday, April 9, 2010
7:30pm - 9:00pm
OUTPOST FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1268 N. Ave 50 (Highland Park)
FREE
BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS reading with Jennifer Krasinski, Janice Lee, Gerard Olsen, and others TBA.
JENNIFER KRASINSKI is an LA-based film and art writer for publications such as Modern Painters, Frieze, and Art In America. Her fiction and experimental criticism has been published in Punk Planet, Pazmaker, and most recently in Mythym, edited by Trinie Dalton.
JANICE LEE is the author of KEROTAKIS. Her work can be found in antennae, sidebrow, Action, Yes, and Black Warrior Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a co-curator for the feminist reading series Mommy, Mommy!, co-editor of the online journal [out of nothing], and co-founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe.
GERARD OLSEN is a member of Tusks, Hooves, Horns, a co-founder of the Oceanic Society for Sudden Euphoric Adventure, and a co-founder of Explorsion. He has been published in Opium, Mammut, LA record, and Out of Nothing.
VANCOUVER: The Joyland Summit
Sunday, April 11, 2010
7:00pm - 10:00pm
W2, 112 West Hastings
FREE
JOYLAND CO-FOUNDERS BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS AND EMILY SCHULTZ ARE READING WITH VANCOUVER AUTHORS CLAIRE GIBSON, DAN SCHWARTZ, SHAY WILSON, AND ROB PETERS.
Hosted by Kevin Chong.
Emily Schultz’s latest novel is Heaven Is Small, released from House of Anansi Press in May 2009. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, the Walrus, the Black Warrior Review, Prism, Geist, Event, Descant, and several anthologies. The Vancouver Sun wrote: “Heaven Is Small [is] a stunning, often surprising read with moments of such audacity that the reader is likely to gasp out loud. . . the sort of novel that satisfies on every level.”
Claire Gibson lives in Vancouver. She is a creative writing major at the University of British Columbia.
Dan Schwartz is originally from Washington, DC, and now spends his time in the MFA program at UBC. He was recently one of the editors for PRISM international. He writes a story once a week for The Land Of Bad Decisions (http://lobd.blogspot.com). He has a few interests.
Shay Wilson is one of those kids your mother warned you about, though you probably won't think so at first. She works in the film industry and completed her MFA in Creative Writing in 2009. Her work has recently appeared in The Beaver, The Ink Filled Page and Geist.
Rob Peters flew thirty feet through a car window when he was two. He lives in Vancouver and writes fiction, probably as a result.
Kevin Chong is the author of two books: a novel entitled Baroque-a-Nova and a work of narrative non-fiction, Neil Young Nation. He is the Vancouver editor for Joyland.
