Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:

Morgan Christie

Martha Bátiz

Jessica Popeski

Chyana Marie Sage

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

Jade Wallace

The Good & Bad of Book Blurbs

Jade Wallace (they/them) is a poet, novelist, and critic. They are the author of two poetry collections, a genderless novel, and, under the name MA|DE, two collaborative poetry collections. Most recently, MA|DE’s ZZOO came out in 2025 with Palimpsest Press. More: jadewallace.ca + ma-de.ca

READERS

Morgan Christie‘s work has appeared in Callaloo, Writer’s Digest, Room, Prism International, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize, 2023 Prairie Fire Fiction Prize, 2023 the Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Book Prize, and 2024 the Puerto del Sol Fiction Prize.

Martha Bátiz was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. She’s the author of four short-story collections, two in Spanish and two in English, and an award-winning novella that has been published in Spanish, English and French. “A Daughter’s Place” (House of Anansi Press) is her first novel. She teaches Creative Writing in Spanish at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies, and Spanish language, literature, translation and Creative Writing at York U.

Jessica Popeski is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and intersectional ecofeminist poet. Named one of Tkaronto’s “exceptional up and coming writers” by Open Book, she authored “Oratorio” and “The Wrong Place” with Anstruther Press. “the problem with having a body” was published with Gordon Hill Press, and “grenoside” is forthcoming in Fall 2026.

Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish memoirist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Her essay “Soar” won first place in the Edna Staebler Essay Contest, and then won the Silver Medal in the National Magazine Awards. She was the first Indigenous graduate from Columbia University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, where she worked on her debut memoir, Soft As Bones, which is now available everywhere books are sold. Her writing is a celebration of culture, showing the ways that Indigenous methods, cultural stories and practices have great capacity for healing. She is often somewhere near trees.