| Debra Anderson launches her first novel, Code White
"Code White is Girl, Interrupted gone fin-de-millennium femme-tastic. Who knew the psych ward could be so sexy? Alex will make you laugh a hundred times and break your heart a hundred more. Debra Anderson is a sharp, smart, and breathtakingly insightful writer in full possession of the world she's created in this stunning debut novel."
— Chandra Mayor, winner of the Lambda Literary Awards
"Code White is a book that meets your eye, has a good handshake, and looks killer in a pair of fishnets."— Herizons Magazine
"Debra Anderson's style and focus is fierce and unblinking in this love story for the strange survivors of even stranger places." — Mariko Tamaki
Alex wakes up in a psychiatric ward covered in mud, with no memory of how she got there. Detailing her life after a sudden manic episode, Alex reports the often hilariously bizarre details of her days while trapped on the inside. Stubbornly insisting on control, Alex scopes her ward-mates, skirmishes with the staff for information on her treatment, and stays true to her high-femme identity. Alex is a witty, neurotic narrator, negotiating dyke drama on both sides of the locked doors, and seducing characters and readers with the machinations of her lively, complex mind.
Code White is an innovative story of psychiatric confinement, rippling with sardonic humour, sexual tension, and rebellious honesty, in a setting that often lacks all three.
DEBRA ANDERSON IS THE WINNER OF THE THIRD ANNUAL DAYNE OGILVIE GRANT!
The Writers' Trust of Canada announced that Debra Anderson is the recipient of the third annual Dayne Ogilvie Grant! The $4,000 grant is given to an emerging gay Canadian writer. The grant is funded by an endowment established by Robin Pacific. The jury also awarded an Honour of Distinction to writer Greg Kearney.
The winner was selected by a jury comprised of writers Derek McCormack, Shani Mootoo, and Karen X. Tulchinsky.
"Debra Anderson is a courageous writer, unafraid to explore and expose the deeper chasms in life. Combined with enviable craft, a big heart, a sense of humour and mischief, and that larger vision that makes a great writer, she holds her reader with a firm, delightful grip."— Dayne Ogilvie Grant Jury
For more info, please visit the Writers' Trust of Canada
READ ALL ABOUT THE DAYNE OGILVIE GRANT!
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The National Post - The Afterword
RECENT TORONTO PRIDE LITERARY EVENT!
Get Your Lit Out - Potluck: A Night of Readings. Presented by Three Ring Paper Productions, hosted at A Space Gallery (401 Richmond St. W., Suite 110) on June 20, 2007 (7-10p.m.) FREE & all ages.
Hosted by comedian Dawn Whitwell and featuring Shani Mootoo, Trey Anthony, Anna Camilleri, Debra Anderson, Gein Wong & Dani Couture. No recipes required at this queer pride literary event! Get the dish on the latest Get Your Lit Out event by contacting organizer, Debra Anderson, Three Ring Paper Productions.
PAST TORONTO LITERARY EVENT!
Study Hall: A Night of Queer Readings is a free, all ages night of readings on March 7, 2007 (7-9p.m.) presented by Three Ring Paper Productions and TBLGAY at York University - Student Centre (Room 307, 3rd floor) at 4700 Keele St. Featuring Derek McCormack, Debra Anderson, R.M. Vaughan, & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
PAST TORONTO LITERARY EVENT!
Get Your Lit Out - Heartbreaker is a free, all ages night of readings presented by Three Ring Paper Productions hosted at the Edward Day Gallery (952 Queen St. W.) on February 22, 2007 (7-10 p.m.) Witness local darlings spin stories about love gone wrong that are guaranteed to leave marks. Featuring Marusya Bociurkiw, Rose Cullis, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, Julia Gonsalves, Chanelle Gallant, and Lisa Foad. Fat Femme Mafia will host!
"Hot brainy chicks and bad girls." — Xtra! (Issue 582) (on the Get Your Lit Out Reading Series)
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• TRIGGER Festival • I'll be reading from a work-in-progress with fellow femme authors Zoe Whittall & Anna Camilleri at a radical queer fest on June 11, 2010 at The Raging Spoon (761 Queen St. W.). $7-$10 sliding scale, Doors - 7:30p.m., Movies - 8p.m., Readings - 10p.m., Later - Bands & More Fun!
• Double Trouble! I'll be reading from a work-in-progress with Amber Dawn at her launch of Sub Rosa on Friday, April 30, 2010 at 8p.m. at This Ain't the Rosedale Library (86 Nassau St.).
• Reading at Word on the Street 2009 at 'Proud Voices Tent', Sunday, September 27, 2009, 4 - 4:30p.m., Queen's Park, FREE!
• Read author online interview in Capital Xtra! (August 19, 2009 - 'The 'Glory & the Glitter of the Mundane')
• Winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Grant! Grant presented at Proud Voices Reading Series on June 28, 2009 during Pride Toronto. FREE! (Proud Voices Stage, 5:30p.m., James Canning Gardens Park).
• Guest author at York University's Canadian Writers in Person Reading Series on March 17, 2009 (7-9p.m.) FREE & ALL WELCOME! (York University, 4700 Keele St., Accolade W. Bldg, Rm 109)
• Triple Threat at TWB! Come see Debra Anderson & Zoe Whittall read with Chandra Mayor at the launch of Chandra's All the Pretty Girls on Thursday, May 8, 2008 from 7-9p.m. at the Toronto Women's Bookstore (73 Harbord St.). Join us for literature & lip gloss! FREE!
• Queer Within These Walls on Friday, April 11, 2008 (7:00-9:00p.m.). All welcome to this FREE 2008 LGBTQ Health Matters Week event! Featuring 3 queer writers reading from novels on themes of working & living within mental health institutions. Come see Debra Anderson, Farzana Doctor, & Pat Capponi, at The Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street.
• Gladstone Reading Check out Java Knights FREE on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 (7-9p.m.) with 5 local queer authors. Panel discussion & painless Q & A. 1214 Queen St. W.
• Queer Within These Walls - A Literary Lunch Event on February 21, 2008 (noon - 1:00p.m.). FREE! Featuring Debra Anderson & others, at the George Brown College - St. James Campus, 200 King St. E., 4th Floor Foyer.
• Queer Within These Walls - A Literary Lunch Event on September 19, 2007 (noon-1:00p.m.). Featuring Debra Anderson & others, at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Russell St. Cafeteria.
• 'WORD ON THE STREET' APPEARANCE! Debra's teaching a FREE Creative Writing Workshop on September 30, 2007, called, "Pedal to the Medal:
A Queer Road Trip Creative Writing Workshop."
• Reading at IV lounge reading series - October 19, 2007 at 8pm. FREE. 326 Dundas St. W.
• Reading in Hamilton at the LiT LiVe series on February 4, 2007, 7:30pm, at King Paisley Pub, 1019 King St. W.
• Guest author at Pink Ink - a Toronto writing group for queer/trans youth at 519 Community Centre, Feb. 24, 2007.
• Reviews in Shameless Magazine (Summer 2006) and in Broken Pencil (Issue 31)!
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Debra appeared at Thin Air 2006 — Winnipeg International
Writers Festival on Sept. 18, '06.
• Debra celebrated Vancouver Pride with an appearance at The Robson Reading Series - LGBTQ Reading
on August 3, 2006.
• Debra has returned from her cross-Canada tour spring 2006! You may have seen her performing at an event in Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, or Winnipeg with some of your favourite local authors.
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