Brockton Writers Series presents readings by: Pratap Red’dy Tiffany Morris Danila Botha Ryad Assani-Razaki 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…

Kirk DeMatas is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, dancer, actor, poet, and the author of the collections Wordspeak and Conversations with Skeletons. In 2022, he incorporated poetry with original music for his first EP. His poetry also features in his music videos and the 2024 award-winning short film “Coffee, Black.” Shapeshifter: Manifesting your poetry across mediums Poetry is an ancient…

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 January 14th event featuring Tamara Jong, Jes Battis, Leslie Shimotakahara, and Maurice Vellekoop, with guest speaker Kirk DeMatas who spoke to us on the topic “Shapeshifter: Manifesting your poetry across mediums.”…

Leslie Shimotakahara is an award-winning author of three novels and a memoir, as well as numerous short fiction and essays. She won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize and has been shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her fourth novel, THE BREAKWATER, will be published in April 2026 by Cormorant Books. Video: Interview with “Shawn Breathes Books”…

Tamara Jong is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in literary magazines, and long and shortlisted for various creative non-fiction prizes. She is a Writer’s Studio graduate and lives on Treaty 3 territory, (Guelph, ON). Worldly Girls is her first book. How to be a writer I…