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Brockton Writers Series 09.07.25: Jessica Popeski
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. Link: “Jessica Popeski,…
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Brockton Writers Series 09.07.25: Martha Bátiz
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…
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Brockton Writers Series 09.07.25: Chyana Marie Sage
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…
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Brockton Writers Series 09.07.25: Morgan Christie
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. Video: Triad author Morgan Christie talks…
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 — 6:30 p.m.
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…
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