Book Launch: Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, Franky Cannon

Join us for the launch of Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant by Franky Cannon on Thursday 21 May at 4pm.

Alternative forms in queer literature
Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant by Franky Cannon

This is a conversation about experimentation in form, style, genre, and alternative publishing pathways through Franky Cannon's Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant. Moving across autofiction, illustration, and erotic geographies, Cannon's work resists linear storytelling and conventional publication strategies, instead assembling a shapeshifting, hybrid text that queers form and content.

About the author: 

Franky (Frances) Cannon is a writer, editor, and artist based in Scotland and Vermont. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press), Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga: A Radical Forage Through Art and Writing (Valiz Press), and Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, (Set Margins' Press). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Gutter, Saraband, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and other publications. Franky also edits a digital platform on queer ecologies, queerflora.org, and you can read and view her creative projects at frankyfrancescannon.com

PhotoIreland will also be hosting an event at the International Literature Festival Dublin on 21 May at 12:30pm in Merrion Square. This event will be Free but booking is required. 

Pre-orders are available here