Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:

Sydney Hegele

Moez Surani

Sadiya Ansari

Christina Wong & Daniel Innes

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Special note: As we adapt with current social distancing regulations, we’re happy to announce our event will be hosted in-person at the Glad Day Bookshop, located at 499 Church 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 features a Q&A with the writers afterward. Books are available for sale.

 If you’d like to donate, please do so here.

Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support.

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GUEST SPEAKER

Tao Wong

Why Isn’t My Book Selling?

Tao Wong is an international Amazon bestseller, writing in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. He is best known for the System Apocalypse and A Thousand Li universes. He has over 40 novels and numerous short stories published, and was a finalist for the Kindle Storyteller UK Award in 2021.

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READERS

Sydney Hegele is the author of Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing, 2024) and The Pump (Invisible Publishing, 2021), winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction, and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible in fall 2025. They live with their husband and French Bulldog in Toronto.

Writer and artist Moez Surani is the author of five books, including The Legend of Baraffo and Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real.

Sadiya Ansari is a Pakistani Canadian journalist based in London, and the author of the instant bestseller In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life.

Christina Wong is a playwright, prose writer, and an interdisciplinary artist. Her plays have been performed at Factory Studio and Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace and her work has been featured in Spacing and TOK Magazine. She holds a PhD in Music from the University of Leeds.

Daniel Innes’s extensive portfolio includes painting, installation, graphic and textile design, illustration, sign painting, and tattooing. He uses traditional commercial art techniques, with a focus on the process. He has a special interest in creating works that have the possibility of an immersive physical experience.

Daniel and Christina’s debut book, Denison Avenue (ECW Press, May 2023), was shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award, the 2024 CBC Canada Reads, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and longlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards. Christina is also the narrator of the accessible audiobook of Denison Avenue.