Mark your calendar: TFEW 10th anniversary on Oct. 6

A friendly reminder that the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list is marking 10 years of existence with a major celebration of Monday, October 6 from 6 p.m. on. The list grew from 6 people who gathered in freelancer and teacher David Hayes's living room to 270 members signed up today. It's being held at Big Mamma's Boy, 554 Parliament St*. (2 blocks north of Carleton on the west side, in Cabbagetown.

The evening will include

● An encomium by me (whatever an ecomium is!)

● A reading by Margaret Webb from her recently published book, Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover’s Tour of Canadian Farms

● A reading by Tim Falconer from his recently published book, Drive: A Road Trip Through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile

● An awesome 10th anniversary TFEW cake

● Door prizes, including magazine subscriptions & special surprises. (National Post graphic columnist Steve Murray will be sketching a large, ink wash New Yorker-style cartoon depicting the freelancers swirling around him during the event which will be a door prize for one lucky reveller.

To know how much cake to have on hand, the normally laid-back TFEWers need people to be more than usually punctilious about saying whether or not they're coming. Send your RSVP (or your regrets) to RSVP@jessross.com so the organizers know how much space to reserve, appetizers to order, etc.

There will be some appetizers provided. Everything else is a la carte. www.bigmammasboy.ca

*Take the Carlton streetcar east to Parliament & walk north. Or grab a Wellesley bus east from the Wellesley subway station, get off at Parliament, & walk 2 blocks south.