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Featuring Richard Nash, Emily Schultz, Brian Joseph Davis, and readers from Joyland and CellStories TBA

CellStories delivers daily short stories to mobile phones. Joyland is a short fiction website edited in seven different cities. Cursor is a new architecture for editing, production, reading and community building.

All three projects are taking a fresh approach to the distribution of literary fiction. Please join us for readings, discussions, and bold proclamations in what may turn out to be the Port Huron Statement of Fiction 2.0!

Joyland
Called “the go to place for those seeking the best in short fiction” by the CBC, Joyland is an international hub which has featured fiction by Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Millet, and Pasha Malla, as well as many emerging talents. Edited in six different North American cities and London, the website was created by authors Emily Schultz and Brian Joseph Davis. Schultz’s recent novel Heaven Is Small released this spring from House of Anansi Press; the Vancouver Sun called it “bold and winning, the sort of novel that satisfies on every level.” Davis was recently featured on NME’s “Future 50” list and his last novel, I, Tania, was called “the book of your fever dreams” by Slate. http://www.joyland.ca

CellStories
Whether on a lunch break, riding the train, or simply kicking back on the couch with a post-work beer, why not read something awesome? CellStories isn’t another eBook store — this is something different, something simple: a new story, every day. Free and surprising, CellStories strives to bring you writing that’s unexpected. Like all good stories, some are true, some are not, and many fall in that wonderful gray area between. CellStories was created by Daniel Sinker who, for thirteen years, published the alternative culture magazine Punk Planet. http://cellstories.net

Cursor
Is Cursor a proposition? A web software? A publisher? According to Richard Nash, Cursor is all three. It’s “a new, ‘social’ approach to publishing. To call it ‘niche’ or another ‘independent’ publishing enterprise would be a poor approximation, because those terms fail to capture the organic gurgle of culture at the heart of the venture, the exchange of insight and opinion, the flow of memes and the creation of culture in real time that is now enabled by the Internet.” http://rnash.com/