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D 155: A Winter Reader, out now!
Launch: January 17th, 7:00pm at the Trane Studio (964 Bathurst St.)
Come and join the Descant team as we celebrate the launch of issue 155: A Winter Reader.
Descant is a quarterly literary magazine that showcases poetry, prose, essay, memoir and art. Our most recent issue, A Winter Reader, is an assortment of works that speak to the current season. Join us and readers Angel Beyde, Ricardo Sternberg and Rosemary Sullivan, as we escape the cold through our shared passions for good company and well-articulated ideas.
No cover. Cash bar. Complimentary hors d'euvres; full menu available for individual cravings.
*RAFFLE*
Sporting event tickets! Autographed cookbook! Gift Certificates! Books! Subscriptions!
All proceeds go to the Descant Arts & Letters Foundation.
Made possible through the generous support of:
Ben McNally Books
Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment
Oliver and Bonacini Restaurants
Random House Canada
The Walrus
We hope to see you there!
:::::::::::::To look at excerpts, images and the table of contents for the issue, click here.
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The CAPYBARA, a student writing anthology
Descant Arts & Letters Foundation's NOW HEAR THIS! literacy program sends professional
writers into schools to conduct writing workshops with students.
These workshops help develop literacy skills, cultivate
talent and creativity, encourage self-expression and foster
analytical skills and critical thought.
After a smashingly successful fifth year at NOW HEAR THIS!, we
are proud to present The CAPYBARA,
our latest anthology and third annual of student-written stories, poems, and personal
essays documenting the success
of Toronto's first-ever ongoing writers-in-schools program.
The CAPYBARA launched March 23rd, 2011 at the Gardiner
Museum: this free event is a chance to recognize
everyone's enthusiastic participation in the program, hear
from writers-in-residence and students about their experiences,
give kudos to those who helped make the program possible,
enjoy some nibbles and generally celebrate NOW HEAR THIS!'s success.
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Calls to Submit!
We are now accepting submissions for these upcoming special issues:
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The Hidden City
Many years ago, Descant discussed an issue centred on Toronto’s buried waterways. We began with Taddle Creek, and then Garrison Creek, a 12,000-year-old stream that was “buried” beneath the city’s downtown streets nearly a century ago, but which can still be glimpsed, whether trickling beneath a sewer grate or rushing through the city’s imagination. Toronto’s creeks are the progenitors of The Hidden City, an issue dedicated to that which escapes first notice in the world’s myriad urban landscapes. From buried rivers to underground habitats to the city’s silent/silenced citizens to the city transformed by darkness, we want your best creative work on the creatures, geographies, and societies that elude our surface experience. What do we cover over? What escapes us? What have we forgotten or missed? The Hidden City wants you to show us the unexamined corners of the world’s living cities.
Submission deadline for this issue: June 15th 2012 |
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Masala
In Indian cooking, masala is a delicate and savoury fusion of spices that changes from region to region. So the peoples of India, scattered throughout the world today, display a fusion of cultures and histories. Descant is looking for the stories of the Indian Diaspora, its triumphs and its tragedies. Essays, poems, fictions, memoirs, and art work which show the ways in which the Indian peoples connect with one another worldwide and also differentiate themselves from and yet are still linked to modern India.
Submission deadline for this issue: August 15th 2012
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Descant
Index v001-148 (1970-2010) /
An alphabetical indexing (listed by
author) of everyone who has appeared in the pages of our
magazine. This comprehensive index was printed on pages
153-256 of Descant 133; it was updated in June 2010. you can download
the PDF here
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