Welcome to the new year and a new Draft Reading!
Welcome to the start of season 17 of Draft Reading, the first Draft of the year!
Sunday, February 27th, 3 p.m. ET on zoom.
Please register through eventbrite.
We’re hosting readings by Carlos Anthony, Samantha Garner, Tyler Pennock and Dharini Woollcombe.
Along with five authors who will be sharing brief readings: Rachel Barduhn, Darynell Beckford, Michaela Jones, Ceilidh Michelle and Sheila Murray.
Please see below for more information about the authors and performers.
Carlos Anthony writes stories and shares experiences that Black men are afraid to write about and are ashamed to talk about. Carlos opens the discussion of the vulnerability men face but hide behind because of the stereotypes associated with that vulnerability. His work has been featured in Cry Magazine and Love & Literature. When he’s not writing articles or short stories, Carlos works on his highly anticipated novel and scripts that detail his testimony.
Samantha Garner‘s short fiction and poetry have appeared in Broken Pencil, Sundog Lit, Kiss Machine, The Fiddlehead, Storychord, WhiskeyPaper and The Quarantine Review. Her debut novel, The Quiet is Loud, is published by Invisible Publishing. She lives and writes in Mississauga.
Tyler Pennock is a two-spirit adoptee from a Cree and Metis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta. Tyler is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They are a Sessional Lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Toronto. They graduated from Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2013, and currently live in Toronto. Their first Book, BONES was published in 2020 by Brick Books.
Dharini Woollcombe came on the arts scene as an actress. She got her first big break as a series lead, in the 90-episode television series METROPIA, which introduced the most multi-ethnic television cast ever seen in Canada. She continues to occasionally work on stage, in television, in film, and lends her voice to media projects. Her short story, “Dancing in the Light” is in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul, which is published by HarperCollins Canada. Her humorous article, “Script to Screen in Six Weeks: Do It At Your Own Risk” was published in ACTRA Toronto’s Performers Magazine. As a filmmaker, she co-wrote and co-produced the short film, SEE ME NOW, which won the ACTRA – CINEFAM Women Creators of Colour screenwriting competition and went on to win the African Channel Spotlight Award. It was selected to screen at 11 festivals in the US and Canada, including The Newport Beach International Film Festival, and the Richard Harris International Film Festival, in Ireland. Currently she is creating an experimental piece of theatre about racial identity, (with the support of the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts). Between writing, painting and voice-over work, Dharini enjoys a part-time practice as a Psychotherapist.
For this afternoon’s reading of Undertone: The Colour of Hate the performers will be:
*Dharini Woollcombe
*Raoul Bhaneja
*Brigitte Solem
*Gabriella Sundar Singh
*The participation of these Artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance•Opera•Theatre Policy.
Many thanks to the Toronto Arts Council, as well as our generous audiences, for funding this reading.