They Have To Take You In: Peterborough Launch: September 11, 2014
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Order Link for They Have To Take You In.
Book Launch, September 11, 2014
A fundraiser anthology on the theme of family, edited by Ursula Pflug and published by Hidden Brook Press.
The Theatre on King
159 King Street, Suite 120 (in the parking lot behind CRUZ/Wolf)
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2R8
Phone (705) 930-6194
Email contact@ttok.ca
$15.00 cover charge. Contributors plus one guest each are exempt.
Audience members will receive a copy of the book, listed at $19.95.
About beneficiary the Dana Fund:
Our beneficiary, the CMHA administered Dana Fund, is a no-overhead fund benefiting women and families in transition. It was created in 2010 in honour of Dana Tkachenko, whose remarkable contribution closes the prose section of the anthology. The fund’s purpose is to help women and families in transition.
"The Dana Fund was created in July of 2010 at the Canadian Mental Health Agency (CMHA HKPR) in Peterborough Ontario, at the suggestion of friends and family who wished to make donations in her memory. Dana Tkachenko inspired many people through her own experiences of struggling against tremendous obstacles and succeeding in creating a stable and fulfilling life for herself and her family. Dana’s memory is honoured through the Dana Fund, by dedicating donations to the cause of supporting young women and families in transition, experiencing similar challenges, who could benefit from some help along the way." - Gord Langill
This is a cross-genre anthology, including mainstream, slipstream and magic realist work. Writers who have contributed fiction and poetry include both internationally published award winners and those who appear here in print for the first time. They include Michelle Berry, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Linda Rogers, Leanne Simpson, P.J. Thomas, Jan Thornhill and more. Look forward to short readings from some of our amazing contributors!
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
"We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan. The Welsh word "hiraeth" translates roughly as "longing for home," and yet there are those for whom home is not so positive and the fine line between being homesick and being sick of home is just as often not so fine. "I remember being put out on the street/ at the age of nine or ten/ by my father for reasons that still remain a mystery/ even to me," writes Darryl Salach in his poem, "On the Road". None of the mushy sentimentality, false memory and treacly greeting-card nostalgia for these writers-no, these writers are interested in the healing truths we tell when writers are writing their way out of sadness for the sake of love. Herein they tell the entire grumble of the story, sometimes in memoir, sometimes in fiction, sometimes in a poem, but never in the candy-coated dithyrambs that populate the pages of those 'chicken soup for the soul' books. This anthology is filled with serious truth, the kind that goes deep and heals from well within the wound. John B. Lee Poet Laureate of Brantford, Poet Laureate of Norfolk County
The book’s aim is to benefit women and families in transition. We are grateful to Richard Grove at Hidden Brook Press, who is donating a percentage of royalties from sales to our beneficiary. Thanks to Gordon Langill, who suggested and wrote about CMHA’s The Dana Fund, a no overhead fund applicants may use to meet any pressing needs; Tapanga Koe, for helping put together the Indiegogo website, and the amazing authors who have contributed signed books to the campaign, and/or poetry and fiction to the book! Our heroes include Leanne Simpson, Linda Rogers, Tim Becket, Jan Thornhill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more!
Order Link for They Have To Take You In.
Book Launch, September 11, 2014
A fundraiser anthology on the theme of family, edited by Ursula Pflug and published by Hidden Brook Press.
The Theatre on King
159 King Street, Suite 120 (in the parking lot behind CRUZ/Wolf)
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2R8
Phone (705) 930-6194
Email contact@ttok.ca
$15.00 cover charge. Contributors plus one guest each are exempt.
Audience members will receive a copy of the book, listed at $19.95.
About beneficiary the Dana Fund:
Our beneficiary, the CMHA administered Dana Fund, is a no-overhead fund benefiting women and families in transition. It was created in 2010 in honour of Dana Tkachenko, whose remarkable contribution closes the prose section of the anthology. The fund’s purpose is to help women and families in transition.
"The Dana Fund was created in July of 2010 at the Canadian Mental Health Agency (CMHA HKPR) in Peterborough Ontario, at the suggestion of friends and family who wished to make donations in her memory. Dana Tkachenko inspired many people through her own experiences of struggling against tremendous obstacles and succeeding in creating a stable and fulfilling life for herself and her family. Dana’s memory is honoured through the Dana Fund, by dedicating donations to the cause of supporting young women and families in transition, experiencing similar challenges, who could benefit from some help along the way." - Gord Langill
This is a cross-genre anthology, including mainstream, slipstream and magic realist work. Writers who have contributed fiction and poetry include both internationally published award winners and those who appear here in print for the first time. They include Michelle Berry, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Linda Rogers, Leanne Simpson, P.J. Thomas, Jan Thornhill and more. Look forward to short readings from some of our amazing contributors!
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
"We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan. The Welsh word "hiraeth" translates roughly as "longing for home," and yet there are those for whom home is not so positive and the fine line between being homesick and being sick of home is just as often not so fine. "I remember being put out on the street/ at the age of nine or ten/ by my father for reasons that still remain a mystery/ even to me," writes Darryl Salach in his poem, "On the Road". None of the mushy sentimentality, false memory and treacly greeting-card nostalgia for these writers-no, these writers are interested in the healing truths we tell when writers are writing their way out of sadness for the sake of love. Herein they tell the entire grumble of the story, sometimes in memoir, sometimes in fiction, sometimes in a poem, but never in the candy-coated dithyrambs that populate the pages of those 'chicken soup for the soul' books. This anthology is filled with serious truth, the kind that goes deep and heals from well within the wound. John B. Lee Poet Laureate of Brantford, Poet Laureate of Norfolk County
The book’s aim is to benefit women and families in transition. We are grateful to Richard Grove at Hidden Brook Press, who is donating a percentage of royalties from sales to our beneficiary. Thanks to Gordon Langill, who suggested and wrote about CMHA’s The Dana Fund, a no overhead fund applicants may use to meet any pressing needs; Tapanga Koe, for helping put together the Indiegogo website, and the amazing authors who have contributed signed books to the campaign, and/or poetry and fiction to the book! Our heroes include Leanne Simpson, Linda Rogers, Tim Becket, Jan Thornhill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more!
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