Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tender Buttons Launch


I am proud to announce that my first book, for which I received the TAC grant for Emerging Artists, is being launched this weekend!



The book is called Tender Buttons, and it is a fusion of flash fiction and collage. Please go here if you want to learn more about Tender Buttons.

If you are in Toronto this week/end, I would love it if you would come help me celebrate. 


On Thursday November 29I will be reading Tender Buttons, accompanied by projections of the collages at the Neck of the Woods Art Show at the Norman Felix Gallery (627 Queen St West, Toronto), from 7 to 11 pm.




On Saturday December 1st, 2012, I will be displaying and selling Tender Buttons and my 2010 ‘zine Kitty Doodles as part of the Parkdale Bazaar at St. John’s Church at 186 Cowan Avenue, from 11am – 5pm

If you ain't in Toronto, or otherwise can’t make it but would still like to buy a copy of Tender Buttons, it can be purchased:

1)      by writing to me (ellieanglin@gmail.com)
2)      in store at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto)
3)      or from my Etsy shop (I’ll mail it to you and seal it with a kiss!)

Each copy is $12, and is signed, numbered, and comes with it's own one-of-a-kind collaged dust sleeve. Postage is $3.

Thanks so much y'all!  I love you!
Xoxo,

Ellie.

About Tender Buttons


Tender Buttons is a fusion of collage and flash fiction and was lovingly created by Ellie Anglin. Each full-colour booklet is numbered, signed and hand-bound by the artist, and has a one-of-a-kind collaged book sleeve.
After surviving a mysterious and dark childhood, an emotionally stunted narrator struggles with mental illness, self-injury, and to reconcile her queerness with her strange spiritualism.  Our deeply repressed and simple heroine’s true sadness is only glimpsed at through frequent cracks in the delirious, slavish narrative about her prized Button Collection. The accompanying collages serve to open these cracks wider, giving a literal glimpse of her true desperation. If you like flash fiction, collage, and strange, sad women, Tender Buttons might be the one for you.”
Self-Published in Toronto, Ontario in 2012. 
76 pp. ISBN # 978-0-9879898-0-2, $12

Tender Buttons can be purchased from Ellie at ‘zine and art shows throughout the city, as well as at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto), or online at etsy.com/shop/ellieanglin