Join us at Charlotte Street Arts Centre on Wednesday, June 29th to celebrate the launch of the half-drowned, Trynne Delaney's debut novella, available now from Metatron Press!

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the half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire, Delaney builds a glittering, speculative world where community holds through grief, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard.

"Told with searing insight and compassion, Trynne Delaney offers up a feast in the half-drowned. With swiftness, precision, and extraordinary prose Delaney gifts us an astonishing spec-fic tale of ancestors, lineage, aliens, blood, and memory."
- FRANCESCA EKWUYASI, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press)

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This event will feature readings from:

TRYNNE DELANEY
Trynne Delaney(b 1996) is a writer currently based in Tiohtiàh:ke (Montreal). They hold a Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Their work appears in The Puritan, CV2, Carte Blanche, GUTS, WATCH YOUR HEAD, and the League of Canadian Poets’ chapbook ‘These Lands: a collection of voices by Black Poets in Canada’ edited by Chelene Knight. In their spare time they like to garden. They grew up in the Maritimes. the half-drowned is their first book.

JENNA LYN ALBERT
Jenna Lyn Albert (she/they | elle/iel) is a queer poet and community organizer living on the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Jenna is a member of The Fiddlehead’s editorial board and co-hosts the elm & ampersand poetry podcast with partner-in-rhyme Rebecca Salazar. Their debut collection of poetry Bec & Call (Nightwood Editions 2018) won the New Brunswick Book Awards’ Fiddlehead Poetry Prize. Jenna served a two-year term as the City of Fredericton’s Poet Laureate from 2019–2020, and is currently working on their sophomore collection of poetry, mal à l’aise.

JAMIE EVAN KITTS
Jamie Evan Kitts (she/her/hers) is an anti-trauma writer, a children's tutor, and a former managing editor of the Atlantic Canadian Poets' Archive. Her current projects include a zine-sized prose-poem "EP", tentatively titled Table Manner, and she recently won a Canada Graduate Scholarship to pursue research of fascism and anti-fascist action in video game spaces for her Master's in English Creative Writing at UNB. You can find her poetry in Qwerty, The Malahat Review, and Augur Magazine.

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This event takes place on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples.