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. Review: CaitTacklesTBRPile: Alphabet Soup…

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…

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. The Seaside Café Metropolis The Birth…

Allister Thompson is a professional book editor of almost three decades and an eclectic musician. He is author of the cli-fi novel “Birch and Jay.” A former resident of Toronto, he now makes his home near the woods of North Bay, Ontario.  BRINGING THE ROADS OF ONTARIO INTO CLIMATE FICTION There is a lot of fiction…

Justin Ancheta (he/they) is a stuttering Filipino-Canadian passionate about tarot, science, and writing, living in Toronto (Treaty 13 territory). He is exploring his writing voice through lyric essays and creative non-fiction, drawing from his experience being bi+, ace, racialized and disabled. He is @rampancy on Instagram and @jancheta25 on Bluesky. Is Your Stuttering a Disability Originally…