Montreal's own Maisonneuve Magazine is ten years old—still too young to drink (yes, even in Quebec), but not too young to host an evening of readings, music, and arguments over whether Girls is the greatest or the worst show of all time. Please join us on Thursday, May 3 at Eastern Bloc to celebrate our first decade. 

Featuring ten readings and performances by ten of Montreal's finest writers and musicians:  

Deni Y. Béchard
Melissa Bull
Anna Leventhal
David McGimpsey
Lizy Mostowski
Dimitri Nasrallah
Saleema Nawaz
Leif Vollebekk
Kathleen Winter
Jacob Wren

Thursday May, 3
Eastern Bloc (7240 Clark, Montreal)
8 p.m.
$7 (includes a copy of Maisonneuve's special Tenth Anniversary Issue or a tote bag)

See you then!

More about our all-star lineup of performers:

Deni Y Béchard's debut novel Vandal Love (Doubleday Canada) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His memoir Cures For Hunger (Goose Lane) is out this May.

Melissa Bull is Maisonneuve's Writing From Quebec editor and the editor-in-chief of humour website The Smoking Jacket.

Anna Leventhal’s writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, Geist, Matrix, and the anthologies The Journey Stories 20 (McClelland & Stewart) and The Future Hygienic (PistolPress).

David McGimpsey is one of Canada's most acclaimed poets and the author of many books of poetry, short stories, and non-fiction, most recently Li'l Bastard (Coach House).

Lizy Mostowski is editor-in-chief of Soliloquies Anthology. She was recently longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of Niko (Esplanade), which won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and Blackbodying (DC Books).

Saleema Nawaz is the author of Mother Superior (Freehand). She has also been published in Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and Grain.

Leif Vollebekk's critically acclaimed debut album Inland (Nevado Records) was released in 2010. His new album is forthcoming this year.

Kathleen Winter's debut novel Annabel won the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General's Awards, and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Jacob Wren is the author of Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, Families Are Formed Through Copulation, and Unrehearsed Beauty (Pedlar).

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