Agatha Press Spring 2025 Launch
Celebrate Agatha Press's first chapbooks of 2025 with readings from their authors: Su Croll, Peter Midgley, and Omar Ramadan! (Plus some potential special guests!)
Arrive early to grab a drink from the cafe, pet & pose with Co-Publisher Agatha, and mingle and browse from Paper Birch's thoughtfully curated selection of books.
This is a free event with chapbooks available for sale. Hosted by Co-Publisher Matthew Stepanic.
Doors & cafe open at 6:30 p.m.
Readings start at 7:00 p.m.
ACCESSIBILITY INFO
Street parking available. Bookstore is on the ground level. One gender-neutral washroom on site. Paper Birch Books is working toward being a scent-reduced space; if you can, please refrain from strongly or artificially scented products. Masks are no longer mandatory, but we encourage attendees to respect others' comfort levels and take necessary precautions. If you are feeling sick, please stay home. Please email paperbirchbooksyeg@gmail.com with any access questions or requests.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SU CROLL’s Worlda Mirth was the winner of the Kalamalka New Writers Competition and was shortlisted for a Gerald Lampert Award. Blood Mother was shortlisted for Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award and the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award. Croll’s most recent poetry collection, Cold Metal Stairs, was shortlisted for a High Plains Book Award. Her debut novel, Seeing Martin, was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and has also been published as a French translation (Voir Martin). Su Croll lives in Edmonton.
PETER MIDGLEY was born near a military base in Namibia, raised in the shadow of regional Commando HQ during the South African invasion of Angola, trained to be a soldier in high school. He can still recognize a range of IEDs and has faced the barrel-end of a parabellum. Peter was fated to become a conscientious objector and oppose violence in any form. He is the author of several books, including let us not think of them as barbarians and Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story.
OMAR RAMADAN (he/him) is a Lebanese Canadian author and PhD candidate in creative writing. He is the author of the poetry book, This Sweet Rupture, and chapbooks Sesame Love and Sun Dogs. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, CV2, and The Polyglot. He lives in Amiskwaciy.