Brockton Writers Series presents readings by: Tamara Jong Jes Battis Leslie Shimotakahara  Maurice Vellekoop 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…

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…

We had a wonderful group of writers talk about their work and share their stories with us this past Wednesday. Click here for the recorded live stream of our November 12th event featuring Lisa Baird, Premee Mohamed, Guy Elston, and Terese Mason Pierre, with guest speaker Farzana Doctor who spoke to us on the topic “Psych Hacks for…

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. Yearning Belongs in Poetry: An Unserious Rant…