Bywords Warms the Night - Annual fundraiser for the Cornerstone Women's Shelter

Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 5:00pm

The Manx Pub
370 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON
K2P 1M9

Come out to celebrate the launch of Volume 10-4 of the Bywords Quarterly Journal and help raise money for the Cornerstone Women's Shelter.

There will be poetry readings by Quebecois and Acadian poet Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Professional Writing Program graduate JC Bouchard, Concordia Creative Writing graduate Heather Davidson, prolific crime writer cb forrest, Carleton University undergraduate Cassandra Nykyforak and Merrickville Poetry Group member Catherine Ruth Taylor. The event will also feature the music of Jill Zmud, Ottawa singer-song writer and transplanted prairie lily.

A hat will be passed to collect donations for Cornerstone. Donors will receive a free copy of the Bywords Quarterly Journal.

For further information please contact: amanda@amandaearl.com; 613-868-1364

"Cornerstone provides emergency shelter and supportive housing for a diversity of women. Our services are offered in an environment which promotes dignity and a sense of hope. We are committed to public education and advocacy, and strive to increase safe, affordable housing and to end homelessness."