Allister Thompson is a professional book editor of almost three decades and an eclectic musician. He is author of the cli-fi novel “Birch and Jay.” A former resident of Toronto, he now makes his home near the woods of North Bay, Ontario.  BRINGING THE ROADS OF ONTARIO INTO CLIMATE FICTION There is a lot of fiction…

Justin Ancheta (he/they) is a stuttering Filipino-Canadian passionate about tarot, science, and writing, living in Toronto (Treaty 13 territory). He is exploring his writing voice through lyric essays and creative non-fiction, drawing from his experience being bi+, ace, racialized and disabled. He is @rampancy on Instagram and @jancheta25 on Bluesky. Is Your Stuttering a Disability Originally…

Ottawa writer James K. Moran writes across genres, with poetry and speculative fiction in Burly Tales, Bywords, Glitterwolf and On Spec, and reviews in Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons. Lethe Press published Moran’s short-story collection Fear Itself and horror novel Town & Train. An Insomniac’s Dispatch About Voice Pssst! I’ll let you in on a…

Matthew J. Trafford earned his MFA at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed story collections The Divinity Gene (Douglas & McIntyre) and Runs in the Blood (Arsenal Pulp Press). He is an avid fibre artist in his alternate persona of Fairy Godfather Knits. In Praise of Queer Family: The…

Brockton Writers Series presents readings by: James K. Moran Justin Ancheta Allister Thompson Matthew J. Trafford Our event will be hosted in person at Glad Day Lit, located at 32 Lisgar St., Toronto. We will also live stream the event on the Brockton Writers Series YouTube channel! The event starts at 6:30 p.m. The reading is PWYC and…