Stephen Bulger Gallery

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber2" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" height="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td class="pagetitle"><a href="exhibit.asp">Exhibition Page</a></td> <tr> <td class="pagetitle">Exhibitions</td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top">Queer CanLit 2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top">June 14, 4:30 - 5:30pm</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top"><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The event will be comprised<BR> of readings by local authors and will be open to the public, free of charge, at<BR> the Stephen Bulger Gallery and CAMERA.<o:p></o:p></span><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The five authors who will be<BR> participating are Jim Bartley, Nila Gupta, Elizabeth Ruth, Richard Vaughan and<BR> Zoe Whittall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Jim Bartley</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> is a playwright, novelist and book critic. <BR> His play <i style="">Stephen and Mr. Wilde</i>, based<BR> on Oscar Wilde's visit to <st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>, has been<BR> produced across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region><BR> and on CBC Radio. His first novel, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i style="">Drina</i></st1:PlaceName><i style=""> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bridge</st1:PlaceType></i></st1:place>,<BR> was published in 2006.  Jim contributes a books column to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City>'s Xtra Magazine, and his<BR> "First Fiction" review column for <i style="">The<BR> Globe and Mail </i>has introduced over 300 new writers to Canadian readers. He<BR> is at work on his second novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Nila Gupta</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><BR> was born in <st1:City w:st="on">Montreal</st1:City> and spent several childhood<BR> years in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> before<BR> immigrating back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><BR> in 1967. In 2004 she won the Ontario Arts Council K.M. Hunter Award for<BR> Literature. She currently teaches and is enrolled in the M.F.A. in Creative<BR> Writing Program at the University of Guelph-Humber. Poet, playwright and<BR> scholar, Gupta has had work published in numerous journals and anthologies; <i>The<BR> Sherpa and Other Fictions</i> is her first short story collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Elizabeth Ruth</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><BR> lives and works in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>,<BR> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Her<BR> short fiction has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies,<BR> and she frequently writes book reviews and conducts author interviews for<BR> various newspapers. Ruth is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, <i>Ten<BR> Good Seconds of Silence</i>, and <i>Smoke</i>. She is also the editor of the<BR> anthology, <i>Bent On Writing: contemporary queer tales</i>. Ruth teaches<BR> creative writing through the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Humber</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> for Writers and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Toronto</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">RM Vaughan</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> is a Toronto-based writer and video artist originally<BR> from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Brunswick</st1:place></st1:State>.<BR> He is the author of eight books and a contributor to over 50 anthologies. His<BR> videos and short films play in galleries and festivals across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> and<BR> around the world. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vaughan</st1:place></st1:City><BR> comments on art and culture for a wide variety of publications and writes a<BR> weekly celebrity-interview column for The Globe and Mail. His latest book is <i style="">Troubled: A Memoir in Poems</i> (Coach<BR> House, 2008)<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Zoe Whittall</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> — originally from <st1:City w:st="on">Montreal</st1:City>,<BR> where she attended Concordia — now lives in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City>. Her previous books include <em>The<BR> Emily Valentine Poems</em> and <em>The Ten Best Minutes of Your Life</em>, both<BR> volumes of poetry. She edited the anthology <em>Geeks, Misfits & Outlaws</em>.<BR> Whittall has written for <em>The Globe and Mail</em>, the <em>National Post</em>,<BR> and <em>NOW Magazine</em>. Her first novel is <i style="">Bottle Rocket Hearts</i> (Cormorant Press).<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body>