Dolman, Earl and Moran
I am thrilled to be doing the second in my throuple series of readings, this time with AJ Dolman and James Moran. Thanks to the Writers Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts for sponsoring James and AJ's participation in the reading. It will take place in the Gallery of the Lieutenant's Pump at 361 Elgin on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 2pm. Doors open at 1:30pm. Please RSVP to amanda at angelhousepress.com so we can get an idea of the number of people for the LP, so they know how many staff they require that afternoon. The event is free and will feature poetry and prose. It will be about an hour long. Thanks to Dave O'Heare for providing us with sound tech!AJ Dolman’s (they/she) debut poetry collection is Crazy / Mad (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). They previously authored Lost Enough: A collection of short stories (MRP, 2017), and three poetry chapbooks, and co-edited Motherhood in Precarious Times (Demeter Press, 2018). Dolman’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A bi/pan+ rights advocate and founder of Bi+ Canada, they live on unceded, unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.
Amanda Earl (she/her) writes, reviews, edits, publishes, facilitates workshops, organizes literary events on the unceded lands of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Peoples. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and your editor if you’ll have her. Her poetry books include Beast Body Epic, Genesis, Trouble, and Kiki. Her creative missions are whimsy, exploration and connection with kindred misfits. She writes so that fellow misfits don’t feel alone. More info: AmandaEarl.com.
James K. Moran’s fiction collection Fear Itself and horror novel Town & Train were published by Lethe Press. Moran’s poetry and speculative fiction have appeared in Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, Burly Tales: Fairy Tales for the Hirsute and Hefty Gay Man, Bywords, Glitterwolf, On Spec, and elsewhere. He writes across the genres about grief, love, nomadic superheroes and drag-queen warlocks. Moran’s reviews appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons.
Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Doors Open 1:30 pm
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Member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada
2024 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; Beast Body Epic longlisted for the LCP Raymond Souster Award.
2023 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers
2022 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers.
2021 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers. City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers.
2020 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; Winner of the October Arc Poetry Award of Awesomeness.
2019 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers
2018 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers
2017 Winner of the 2017 Tree Chapbook Contest as judged by Stephen Brockwell
2016 - Member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
2016 - 2017 Member of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA)
2016 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers; Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grants
2014 to present Member of the League of Canadian Poets
2014 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers
2014 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour Inductee along with spoken word artist, Danielle Gregoire
2013 Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grant.
2012 City of Ottawa Creation & Production Fund for Emerging Writers; OAC WR Grants.
2011 OAC WR Grants; Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award for collaboarative manuscript with Sandra Ridley; Shortlisted for Geist's Magazines Erasure Poetry Contest
2010 OAC WR Grant.