Metcalf-Rooke Award Ceremony & Amy Jones
The Force For Cultural Events Production (FORCE) presents This is Not A Reading Series, with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council For The Arts.
“And the statute goes to…”. This is Not A Reading Series (TINARS) is delighted to once again join forces with Biblioasis to stage the annual celebration of the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Amy Jones won this year’s award for her short-fiction collection,What Boys Like And Other Stories(Biblioasis). She will discuss fame, fortune, fashion and other staples of a life in Canadian letters with Stuart Woods, Editor of Quill & Quire magazine. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of TINARS, will host the evening.
A This is Not A Reading Series event presented by The Force For Cultural Events Production, Biblioasis, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, and Take Five On CIUT.
In her Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning short fiction collectionWhat Boys Like, writer Amy Jonesbrings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationship with their city and one another. Whether a parent and a child struggling with poverty, sisters trying to find their place in a family, two friends separated by distance and time, or between lovers who find themselves growing apart, Jones stories grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them. What Boys Like introduces another thrillingly original literary voice.
Amy Jones is a graduate of the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several Canadian publications, including The New Quarterly, Grain,Prairie Fire, Event,Room of One. Originally from Halifax, Jones is based in Toronto.
Stuart Woods is Editor of the Canadian publishing magazine, Quill & Quire. He had previously contributed to the magazine as a staff writer. Before working as a print journalist, Woods' career began as an editor at the Montreal publishing house, Price-Patterson. He lives in Toronto.
CONTACTS
Amy Jones: Daniel Wells, biblioasis@gmail.com
This Is Not A Reading Series: Chris Reed, coordinator@tinars.ca
