Derek Mascarenhas is a graduate and Instructor at the University of Toronto SCS Creative Writing Program. His adult short story collection, Coconut Dreams, and the children’s picture books 100 Chapatis and The Mango Monster have been praised widely by The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, and CBC Kids Reads. Writing (and Reading) for Children vs.…

We had a wonderful group of writers talk about their work and share their stories with us this past Wednesday. Click here for the recorded live stream of our March 11th event featuring Pratap Red’dy, Tiffany Morris, and Ryad Assani-Razaki, with guest speaker Derek Mascarenhas who spoke to us on the topic “Writing (and Reading) for Children vs. Adults.” Unfortunately,…

Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the award-winning novellas Green Fuse Burning and poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars. Her work has appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night, as well as in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others.  To the…

Ryad Assani-Razaki (born November 4, 1981) is a Beninese-Canadian writer. His debut short story collection “Deux cercles” won the Trillium Book Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and his novel La main d’Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction in 2012. Born in Cotonou, Benin,…

Pratap Reddy immigrated to Canada from India in 2002. Writing mostly about the angst and the agonies (sometimes the ecstasies) of immigration, he is the author of Weather Permitting & Other Stories (2016), Ramya’s Treasure (2018), Shards of Verse (2024) and Remaindered People & Other Stories (2025). He is currently working on a novel tentatively titled…