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upcoming events
to be announced
latest articles & interviews
listen to nina jane drystek perform and talk about a:of:in with Ellen Chang-Richardson as part of the Gap Riot Season Seven Launch Party
listen to nina jane drystek interview Sarah Burgoyne about her poetry collection Because the Sun for the Ottawa International Writers Festival
read simulacrum press feature about the knewro suite recordings, june 2020
read about the launch of Riverbed Reading Series in Apt 613, may 2020
read “six questions with nina jane drystek” on the Chaudiere Books Blog, april 2020
listen to nina jane’s interview with Amanda Earl on the Small Machine Talks, august 2019
past performances
Lit Live Reading Series
January 5, 2023, King W Books, Hamilton alongside Adam Sol, Khashayar Mohammadi, Sheila Murray, Michael Fraser and Maureen Paxton
Cosmic Chemistry: Performances After The Baroness
June 25, 2022, Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa, ON
House Party Poetry Series #2
feature reader alongside Manahil Bandukwala, Frances Boyle & Natalie Hanna
online, august 2020
MCND: an evening of poetry and performance
feature reader alongside Manahil Bandukwala, Conyer Clayton & Deanna Radford
montreal, september 2019
Canthius Austerity Reading & BBQ
feature reader alongside feature Jennifer Baker, Conyer Clayton, Sanita Fejzić & natalie hanna
ottawa, july 2019
Quatuor Gualuor: original scores
Tree Reading Series – group performance with Conyer Clayton, jw curry & Alastair Larwill
ottawa, october 2018
Sawdust Reading Series
feature reader
ottawa, july 2018
Messaggio Galore takes XV: Quatuor Gualuor
a performance of scores by The Four Horseman and Owen Sound by Conyer Clayton, jw curry, nina jane drystek & Chris Johnson & Alastair Larwill
various locations, spring 2018
The Array Space – Toronto
Common Ground Art Gallery – Windsor
Ottawa International Writers Festival – Ottawa
Tree Reading Series – Hot Ottawa Voices
lineup featuring Hoa Nguyen read alongside Tree’s 2017 Hot Ottawa Voices: nina jane drystek, Sarah MacDonell & Robin McLachlan
ottawa, june 2017
miscellany – contributions, articles, interviews, reviews
check out nina jane’s reflections on poems shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year
on Alison Braid’s “Desire Lines” (2019)
on Sophie Anne Edwards’ “Interview with a spawning salmon on the kagawong river” (2018)
on Laura Matwichuk’s “Fuji Baby” (2017)
read rob mclennan’s thoughts on the knewro suite published by Simulacrum Press, fall 2019
read rob mclennan’s thoughts on “in a candelit room room” published in Coven Editions’ Grimoire, fall 2019
read nina jane’s review of Jake Kennedy’s Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play for Arc Poetry Magazine
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