{"id":878,"date":"2013-09-17T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-09-17T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:50:21","slug":"public-readings-three-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Public Readings &#8211; Three Down, One To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of one month, I have had the opportunity to read my work in public three times, with one more chance coming up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-879\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-879\" alt=\"A photo of author A.M. Matte at a Toronto Public Library podium, reading a short story excerpt .\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Reading-206x300.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Reading-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Reading-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Reading.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.M. Matte, reading an excerpt of <em>A Treat<\/em>, at the TOWC\u00a0<em>Voices 2013<\/em> book launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve read an excerpt of my short story\u00a0<em>Where Pigeons Roost<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.387240374736298.1073741828.247223415404662&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">with fave author Terry Fallis in attendance<\/a>. I&rsquo;ve read an excerpt of my\u00a0<em>MIL Dread<\/em> monologue at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/292652350863680\/\" target=\"_blank\">CityVoices Monologue Salon<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NZVAryH8s6k\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a YouTube excerpt of the monologue performed by actress Audrey Ferron.<\/a>) And I&rsquo;ve read an excerpt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=517\" target=\"_blank\">my short story <em>A Treat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at the launch of the Toronto Writers Cooperative&rsquo;s\u00a0<em>Voices<\/em> anthology (only $10 each).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-880\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-880\" alt=\"An image of the Voices 2013 anthology book cover, itself a blurred image of light coming through a window on a brownish background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Book-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Book-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AMM-Voices2013Book-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Voices 2013 anthology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I immensely enjoyed reading my pieces at those events and I&rsquo;m thrilled to have one more opportunity to share at the <em>Who You Calling Crazy?\u00a0<\/em>reading by emerging authors at Toronto&rsquo;s Free Times Caf\u00e9 on Thursday, October 3rd, starting at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=858\" target=\"_blank\">practicing reading my excerpts<\/a> until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of one month, I have had the opportunity to read my work in public three times, with one more chance coming up. I&rsquo;ve read an excerpt of my short story\u00a0Where Pigeons Roost, with fave author Terry Fallis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[440,100,441,442,443,426,425,85,99,427,439,78],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anthology","tag-author","tag-cooperative","tag-crazy","tag-free-times-cafe","tag-library","tag-public","tag-reading","tag-toronto","tag-towc","tag-voices","tag-writers","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}