Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:
Lisa Baird
Premee Mohamed
Guy Elston
Terese Mason Pierre
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 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.
GUEST SPEAKER
Farzana Doctor
Psych Hacks for Writer’s Block
Farzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author, activist and psychotherapist. She’s written five critically acclaimed lit-fic novels, Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement, All Inclusive, Seven and The Beauty of Us, as well as a poetry collection, You Still Look The Same and a self- and community care workbook for helpers and activists, 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life. She co-founded Brockton Writers Series and was its curator until 2017.
READERS
Lisa Baird is a queer poet, essayist and community acupuncturist. Her chapbook Persephone’s Crickets was published by Baseline Press in fall 2024. Her second poetry collection, When Whales Went Back to the Water, came out with UAlberta Press in early 2025. www.lisabaird.ca
Premee Mohamed is a multiple award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence, and her short fiction has appeared in several best-of anthologies. She can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com
Guy Elston is a UK-born, Toronto-based poet. His debut collection is the The Character Actor Convention (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2025). His poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Literary Review of Canada, The Ex-Puritan, Grain, CV2 and elsewhere. He is a member of the Meet the Presses Collective.
Terese Mason Pierre is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has been published in The Walrus, Room, Brick, Fantasy, and elsewhere. She is the author of “Myth,” a poetry collection, and the editor of “As the Earth Dreams,” an anthology of Black Canadian SFF fiction. Terese lives in Toronto.
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