PIVOT OCTOBER 24TH EDITION: EPISODE IV
@ Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue, right on Bloor and Brunswick, fully accessible venue)
DOORS: 7:15, READINGS: 8:00
READERS: Terrence Abrahams, Carolyn Bennett, Nikki Reimer
FREE/PWYC/DONATIONS FOR ARTIST EXPENSES

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TERRENCE ABRAHAMS (he/him) lives and writes quietly in Toronto. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Acta Victoriana, Hobart Pulp, Peach Mag, the Puritan, Train: a poetry journal, Xtra!, and many gendered mothers, among others. He is also the author of three poetry chapbooks, the most recent of which is out now with baseline press.

Writer, playwright and comedian CAROLYN BENNETT cut her teeth
performing at Yuk Yuk's and hasn't stopped bleeding since. Selected
TV credits include This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC COMICS, and Chilly Beach. Produced plays include Mixed Media (CBC Radio), Pure Convenience (CBC Radio), Runtkiller, The Short List, Hitler's Ass, Canis Familiaris, and Sick Kids Wanna Talk To You. She wrote and performed in the solo show Double Down Helix at the 2018 Kingston Storefront Theatre Festival. She won the 2013 TIFF Studio
Screenwriting Intensive Jury Prize for her feature comedy The Mac
and Watson Springtime Reeferendum Show. Bennett was part of the
2017 Thousand Islands Playhouse Playwrights Unit where she
developed the play "The Monarchists." Bennett has worked as a senior writer for government, and enjoys sharing the same name of a prominent federal cabinet minister. She co-produces a monthly comedy show at Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, now it its seventh year. This year, she took on the task of producing Bright Lit, Big City, a new bi-monthly literary reading series at Hirut. "Please Stand By" is her first novel.

NIKKI REIMER (she/her) is a carbon-based life form of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent who lives on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. She writes poetry, essays and criticism, yells on the internet, and makes digital art. Published books are My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, DOWNVERSE and [sic]; several more are in-progress. Creative and non-fiction work has appeared on stages, billboards, public art exhibits, pop-up bistro menus, and in various magazines, journals and anthologies. She may or may not be undead.