Next Event

 

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 — 6:30 p.m.

Brockton Writers Series presents readings by:

AJ Dolman

Spencer Gordon

Kevin Crowley

Sofia Mostaghimi

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Special note: As we adapt with current social distancing regulations, we’re happy to announce 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 (suggested $3-$5) and features a Q&A with the writers afterward. Books are available for sale.

 If you’d like to donate, please do so here.

Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support.

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GUEST SPEAKER

Kate Edwards

“Copyright, Artificial Intelligence & You: Real Talk on AI for Writers”

An experienced non-profit leader, Kate Edwards has spent her career in service of the arts and creative industries. She spent more than 15 years with the Association of Canadian Publishers, has served on several industry boards, and in January 2024, was appointed CEO of Access Copyright, representing more than 13,000 Canadian publishers, writers, and visual artists.

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READERS

AJ Dolman (they/she) has authored Crazy / Mad (Gordon Hill Press, 2014), Lost Enough: A Collection of Short Stories, and three poetry chapbooks, and co-edited Motherhood in Precarious Times. Dolman’s writing has also appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A bi/pan+ rights advocate, they live on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.

Spencer Gordon is the author of three books: a collection of dramatic monologues, A Horse at the Window (House of Anansi Press, June 2024), the poetry collection Cruise Missile Liberals (Nightwood Editions, 2017), and the short story collection Cosmo (Coach House Books, 2012). Read more at his website, www.spencer-gordon.com.

Kevin Crowley is a Canadian journalist, author, and editor. He has written for newspapers, magazines, and radio. His work has won a number of awards, including a Michener Award for Public Service Journalism and Journalist of the Year honours at the Ontario Newspaper Awards. Sir Middling U (2023) is his first novel.

Sofia Mostaghimi is an Iranian and French-Canadian writer based out of Tkaronto/Toronto. She likes to write about places, spaces, and the identities that mark them and are marked by them. Desperada is her debut novel.

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