Join Caitlin Press for a virtual book reading of Queer Country Crossroads with editor Mabe Kyle and contributors TJ Best, Bethany Edelgard, Matt Philip, Samson Busch, Keiran Lee, Connor Lafortune, Emily Paquette Leahy, and Larry Tayler.

Queer Country Crossroads is an anthology of nonfiction stories and poems written by and for rural 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. Fifty writers, poets, and artists from across Canada share personal stories that explore themes from coming of age and isolation to community and home. 

“As a young lesbian writer and author, I discovered that the origin of a word (etymology) often refreshed and reclaimed an important word to me. ‘Rural’ goes back to ‘rewe-’ which meant ‘To open; space.’ This is exactly what this eclectic, and moving anthology does. It will invigorate, delight and move you.”

—Betsy Warland, author of Breathing The Page

Reading and presentation.  Audience Q&A to follow.

Audience will not have video or mic active.

Event will be livestreamed to YouTube, where it can be rewatched.

If you need subtitles, the event will be simultaneously livestreamed to YouTube which has a closed captioning function.

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Caitlin Press Inc. acknowledges financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, Creative BC, and the Book Publisher’s Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

Queer Country Crossroads: Virtual Book Launch in North/East Ontario