Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:

 J. Marshall Freeman

Greg Frankson

Antanas Sileika

Sky Gilbert

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.

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GUEST SPEAKER

Dafna Izenberg

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Dafna Izenberg is a magazine editor with more than 20 years experience, currently working at the The Walrus as a features editor.

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READERS

J. Marshall Freeman is a writer of fiction and poetry. His queer-hero YA novels include THE DUBIOUS GIFT OF DRAGON BLOOD and BARNABAS BOPWRIGHT SAVES THE CITY. Freeman has released two chapbooks of his poetry and co-hosts the monthly Poetry Open Mic at Buddies in Bad times Theatre.

Greg Frankson is a former national poetry slam champion and on-air poetic commentator on CBC Radio One. He is currently the artistic director of BlackLit Durham / Canadian Black Literary Festival. Greg’s first book of creative nonfiction, Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters, was published by Dundurn Press in January 2025.

Antanas Sileika is the author of seven books of fiction and two memoirs; he’s been long-listed for Canada Reads and short-listed for the Leacock and Toronto book awards. He has been translated into three languages and had his work made into a fifteen-part radio drama and a European feature film. 

Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire.  He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre — one of the world’s largest gay and lesbian theatres — from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 10 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections.