Instead of being sad that summer is winding down — a summer in which BWS held two reading events, check out the photo galleries below! — why not join us Wednesday, September 11 at full of beans Coffee House & Roastery (1348 Dundas St. W., Toronto) for readings by: Valentino Assenza, Katie Boland, Catherine Hernandez and Sheila Toller!…

IT’S TONIGHT! Brockton Writers Series kicks off its July event at 6:30 with Bänoo Zan’s talk, “Poetry, Politics and Performance,” followed at 7:00 by four amazing writers selected for our annual Queer Night: Lydia Perović, Brian Francis and Shani Mootoo join Rose Cullis, author of the guest post below. The Terrible and Constant Self I…

Shani Mootoo will publish her sixth full-length work of fiction, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday), in 2014, and this year marks the twentieth anniversary of her first book, the short story collection Out on Main Street, with the subversive, independent and now-defunct Press Gang Publishers. BWS caught up with Shani recently, and lured her…

Though Brian Francis has published two novels, (2009 Canada Reads finalist Fruit, and 2011’s Natural Order), he’s still not quit his day job! Today, he drops by the blog to tell us why.   Let’s face it – writing isn’t the most lucrative of professions. You can spend years working on a book to have it sell…

Lydia Perović drops by the blog in advance of her appearance July 10 – BWS’s annual Queer Night! – with a few words about gender-bending and the opera. En travesti: Cross-dressing for a living  I wanted to tell you about trouser roles in opera. They’re also called “breeches” and “pants roles” and hosenrolle, and they involve…