Proud to present readings by Kevin Hardcastle, William Kemp and Domenica Martinello. Hosted by Leigh Beadon.

Kevin Hardcastle is a fiction writer from Simcoe County, Ontario. He studied writing at the University of Toronto and at Cardiff University. His work has been published in journals including The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Little Fiction, The Puritan, PRISM international, EVENT, Joyland, and Shenandoah. Hardcastle was a finalist for the 2012 Journey Prize, and has twice been published in the Journey Prize Stories anthology. He also has short fiction forthcoming in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Best Canadian Stories 15, and The Walrus. Hardcastle's debut short story collection, Debris, will be published by Biblioasis in Fall 2015. His novel, In the Cage, will also be published by Biblioasis, likely in Fall 2016.

William Kemp is one of the founding editors of words(on)pages—a micropress "for emerging artists, by emerging artists." Inspired by the Beats, his grandmother, and an appreciation of pop culture that stops at 2004, William has produced a chapbook of poetry entitled "but you are poetryer than me" and an illustrated book entitled "The ABCs of 20-Something Anxieties." He is also a small dog, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and Oxford comma enthusiast.

Domenica Martinello is from Montréal, Quebec, and is the author of the forthcoming poetry chapbook Interzones (words(on)pages, 2015). She is Head of Publicity for The Puritan and a staff writer for The Town Crier. She formerly interned for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and was shortlisted for the Irving Layton Award for Poetry in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Her work has appeared in Lemon Hound, carte blanche, Metatron, The Void, and outlandish zine. Domenica has recently received several generous and helpful rejection notes and has furnished her apartment with three new plants. Find her on Twitter @domenicahope, or shopping at No Frills.

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