Attention writers! Have you finished a fantastic manuscript and are now looking to sell it? Join us for a workshop on the Art of the Pitch with Bryan Ibeas, fiction editor at Invisible Publishing. Come prepared to talk about your project, ask questions and have your pitch flash assessed!
Bryan Ibeas is a fiction editor at Invisible Publishing.
To register for the workship, visit:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of-the-pitch-tickets-162592844575
Money issues? Who doesn’t have them! Join us on June 11th at 12:30 pm for a Money Matters presentation with TD Business Management Analyst Jennifer Tomic, a TD employee who is very kindly volunteering her time and expertise.
We have been very fortunate to partner with TD on our DD-TD Black Playwrights Program this past year. When we reached out to them about a LnL focussed on financial planning, they were happy to tailor one to our needs. Jennifer will discuss practical strategies for saving and making your dollars count as you invest for your future.
To register for the workshop, visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/money-matters-tickets-158031088239
Calling all fiction writers! UK-based agent, Madeleine Millburn, will be the panelist for June’s Lunch N’ Learn on How To Get An Agent.
During this workshop, Madeleine will address the following questions:
how do I write a query letter?
how do I get an agent?
what is the process of a UK agent acquiring a Canadian writer
And more! It is encouraged participants come with questions prepared. Note: Her presentation will be tailored specifically to fiction.
Madeleine founded Madeleine Milburn Ltd in 2012, and it is now a major international literary agency based in the UK. Working with a network of publishers and producers based all over the world, Madeleine represents debut writers, journalists, and established authors. With her tight-knit team, she handles all rights to every book including UK, US, international and Film & TV.
In 2018, Madeleine was named Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was shortlisted again in 2020. She has appeared on The Bookseller’s list of the 150 most influential people in the book trade every year since 2017.
The workshop will take place from 12pm-1pm.
To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-get-an-agent-uk-edition-tickets-157531385615
Join us for a live conversation on June 29 at 1pm with DD alum, Silmy Abdullah, as she discusses her new book, Home of the Floating Lily.
Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, Home of the Floating Lily follows the lives of the characters as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict. A young woman moves to Toronto after getting married but soon discovers her husband is not who she believes him to be. A mother reconciles her heartbreak when her sons defy her expectations and choose their own paths in life. A lonely international student returns to Bangladesh and forms an unexpected bond with her domestic helper. A working-class woman, caught between her love for Bangladesh and her determination to raise her daughter in Canada, makes a decision after a dark secret from the past is revealed.
In each of the stories, characters embark on difficult journeys in the search of love, dignity, and a sense of belonging.
Silmy Abdullah is an author and lawyer. She was born in Bangladesh, spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, and immigrated to Canada when she started high school. Home of the Floating Lily is her debut collection. She lives in Toronto.
The talk is free to attend but registration is required. Visit the link below to get your ticket!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-silmy-abdullah-tickets-153052027735
DD was thrilled to host a private reading of Blood and Memory, a new played by Dainty Smith, produced in partnership with TD and Obsidian Theatre as part of our DD-TD Black Playwrights Program.
Blood and Memory is a re-visioning of Lilith and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It is a conversation between Lilith and Eve, two Black women, who talk about life, sex, shadism and choices in the Garden of Eden, moments before Eve bites the fruit.
Dainty Smith is a Toronto based Actor, Burlesque Performer, Playwright, Producer and curator. She believes that through the art of storytelling and a willingness to be exposed that genuine human connections can be made. Her performances often tell deeply vulnerable stories regarding race, religion, sexuality and challenging social boundaries.
She wrote and self-produced a multidisciplinary play titled Daughters of Lilith, which is currently part of B Current Theatre’s Playwright Incubation 2021 season. The second play by Dainty Smith is titled Blood and Memory, which is currently being workshopped and supported by Obsidian Theatre in collaboration with Diaspora Dialogues.
Her diverse array of stage performances includes, Mayworks Festival, Rock. Paper. Sistahz for B Current Theatre, Caminos Festival for Aluna Theatre, The Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and the Luminato Arts Festival. She is the founder of Les Femme Fatales: Women of Colour burlesque troupe, the first burlesque troupe for women and femmes of colour in Canada.
In partnership with TD and Canadian Stage, DD is excited to present a reading of a new play by Kalale Dalton-Lutale, produced as part of our DD-TD Black Playwrights Program.
Yellow follows two artists/lovers trying to make work together while also sorting through their romantic relationship.
Kalale Dalton-Lutale is a Black queer playwright and performer originally from Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work embraces experimentation, mothers, loss and pop culture. Her current plays includes Pinky Swear (Geordie Productions, nominated for a Tom henry Award, directed by Mike Payette 2017), Crybaby (presented by Black Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Workshop Montreal, directed by Jesse Stong 2019), When We Were Young (Geordie Productions Festival Reading, directed by Dean Flemming 2019), and i am entitled to rest (New Words Festival Directer by Murdoch Schon, 2019), and Habibi’s Angels et la commission impossible (Talisman, directed by Sohpie Gee). Kalale is a graduate from the National Theatre school of Canada.
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