Toronto Craft Alert

She’s Shameless / She’s Writing: June 23rd
She’s Shameless launches June 23rd in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel!

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tues June 23; 8pm (doors 7:30pm) $5 (or free with book purchase)
With readings from Dianah Smith, Shannon Gerard, Zoe Whittall and Shannon Webb-Campbell.
Prom and anti-prom attire encouraged!

SHE’S SHAMELESS / SHE’S WRITING
Shameless magazine, This Is Not A Reading Series and Tightrope Books celebrate the launch of She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back

What media event five years ago transformed the lives of teenage girls across North America? Here’s a clue: it had nothing to do with a boy wizard or the misadventures of trust fund brats. In June of 2004, Shameless, a magazine “for girls who get it,” first appeared on newsstands. Now, the editor and publisher of the magazine have assembled She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back (Tightrope Books).

Join us for the launch party, featuring readings from the book, performances from teen writers and a Sadie Hawkins prom with tunes from the incredible DJ Winnie.

The five teen writers will spend the afternoon in a writing workshop with Trillium Book Award-nominated writer and teacher Ibi Kaslik (The Angel Riots, Skinny), creating monologues that they will read on stage at the launch party alongside anthology authors such as Dianah Smith and Zoe Whittall.

The launch is a This is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Tightrope Books, Shameless, NOW Magazine, the Gladstone Hotel and Take Five On CIUT.

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SHE’S SHAMELESS: Co-editors Megan Griffith-Greene and Stacey May Fowles have compiled She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back, an anthology of fearless and funny non-fiction about strong, smart and shameless young women. With wit and honesty, the writers share stories of their teen experiences (both positive and negative) on everything from pop culture to high school principals. The book is founded on Shameless magazine’s tradition of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing, and reaches out to young female readers who are often ignored by mainstream: freethinkers, queer youth, young women of colour, punk rockers, feminists, intellectuals, artists, and activists.

SHE’S WRITING: Acclaimed writer and educator Ibi Kaslik will conduct a late afternoon workshop at The Gladstone Hotel with five teenaged girls from across Toronto. Kaslik will guide the emerging writers through the process of creating a short piece. The girls will present their five monologues later that evening at the launch for She’s Shameless.