Reading Night is a ~monthly reading event hosted by Spy Press.
Reading Night invites artists and writers to read something they wrote, sometimes in response to a shared prompt.
Past events
(October 2024, LungA School)
Texts read and written by:
Sakshi Chokhani
Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson
Margot Fabre
Eve Jefferies
Irene Mansoldo
Mariana Murcia
agnes olander
Nico Ramirez
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mari skousen
Lip Wieckowski
Reading night: 005
(August 2024, Toronto)
Texts read and written by:
Jess Beketa
Derek Coulombe
Margot Fabre
Mark Grundy
Sara Legg
Stevie Manning
Francis May
Raf Wilcot
Eric Wang
Reading night: 004
(July 2024, Toronto)
Texts read and written by:
Jess Beketa
Margot Fabre
Erica H Isomura
Seden Lai
Sara Legg
Stevie Manning
Francis May
Cason Sharpe
Claire Titelman
Chris Walker
Reading night: 003
(June 2024, Toronto)
Texts read and written by:
Akash Bansal
Jess Beketa
Margot Fabre
Meghan Gagliardi
Seden Lai
Sara Legg
Francis May
Matthew Sabloff
Ansel Schmidt
Reading night: 002
(May 2024, Toronto)
Texts read and written by:
Ben de Boer
Jess Beketa
Margot Fabre
Miki Frances- Sankhāra
Seden Lai
Sara Legg
Max Ma
Ansel Schmidt
Ami Xherro
Reading night: 001
(April 2024, Toronto)
Texts read and written by:
Jess Beketa
Margot Fabre
Seden Lai
Sara Legg
“ ‘Poetry’—the word and the product—is NOT sacred, IS mutable, and SHOULD be replaced with “politics”, “art”, “baking”, “film” and “cabinet-making” as one possible means to record life.”
F.R. David Magazine, Issue 9: This is Not New, of Course.