LIT LIT LIT LIT III is an evening of new readings, written and given by Alex Bovril, Donato Mancini, Kate Moss, and Maia Nichols Sunday, August 2, 2015 8:00 PM Publication Studio Vancouver 222 Georgia Street ALEX BOVRIL is a writer and visual artist. Recently, he has been pouring colours of concrete and writing fiction. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at New York University. DONATO MANCINI makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His books and chapbooks include: Snowline (2015), Buffet World (2011) Fact 'N' Value (2011), Hell Passport no.22 (2008), Æthel (2007), 58 Free Coffees (2006) and Ligatures (2005). Mancini's published critical writing includes work on the archive, time and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012). His most recent full length book, Loitersack (2014), is a labyrinthine commonplace book where critical, theoretical and para-literary tendencies intersect in the forms of poetry, poetics, theory, theory theatre, laugh particles and many many questions. KATE MOSS is an Australian artist who works with drawing, writing, painting, sculpture, sound and performance. Her works explore the possibilities of conversation through the vernacular of landscape, rhythm and material experimentation. MAIA NICHOLS (b. Berkeley, California) is an artist and writer. She holds a BA in Psychology and a BFA from the University of British Columbia. She is a Masters Candidate in the Department of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. Her work is currently on view at Fundación Botín's Villa Iris in Spain. N.B. this event will be hosted at Publication Studio located at 222 E Georgia St featuring The Somewhat Urgent Series—a series of chapbooks which document select texts from previous readings. We will be launching "Fragments of Bismuth" a book of stories by Alex Bovril, edited and designed by Steffanie Ling, and published by Publication Studio Vancouver. Please note a brief intermission will follow the first two readings and concession will be available.