Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:
Sonal Champsee
K.R. Wilson
Alison Gadsby
Darren Greer
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
Rowan Jetté Knox
The Power of Personal Storytelling: How Memoir Fosters Societal Change
Rowan Jetté Knox is an award-winning Canadian writer, human rights advocate, international speaker, and author of the national bestselling memoirs Love Lives Here and One Sunny Afternoon. His work in trans and mental health advocacy has been featured in media worldwide. Rowan is the co-owner of Understory Cafe in downtown Toronto, a queer-run and community-focused coffee shop and wine bar.
READERS
Sonal Champsee’s work appears in anthologies, magazines and newspapers, such as The New Quarterly, Today’s Parent, and The Toronto Star. Her debut novel, Everyone Can’t Be Wrong, was a finalist for the 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. Sonal lives in Toronto, Canada.
K.R. Wilson is the author of the novels An Idea About My Dead Uncle, Call Me Stan (which was longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour) and its sequel Stan On Guard. You can find him at www.krwilson.ca and on socials at @krwbooks. He lives in Toronto.
Darren Greer is an award-winning Canadian author and essayist. His works include the novels Still Life with June, which won the ReLit Award in 2004, and Just Beneath My Skin, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2014.
Alison Gadsby is the author of Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive. Her debut novel, Dreams of the Weary, is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press (2027). She is co-host on HOWL (CIUT, 89.5 FM) and host of Junction Reads, a reading series in Toronto, where she lives in a multigenerational home on Treaty 13 land.
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