Brockton Writers Series: March 12, 2025

The Brockton Writers Series (#BWS) is a bi-monthly literary reading series, hosted on the second Wednesday of every second month, funded by the Ontario Arts Council. The reading is PWYC (suggested $3-$5) and features a Q&A with the writers afterward. Books are available for sale. Join us for an exciting hybrid event: in person at Glad Day Bookshop on Church Street in Toronto, ON, Canada, or virtual over livestream. This is a must-attend gathering for all literature enthusiasts!

Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their continued support.

Guest Speaker: Asifa Sheikh on "A Conversation About Playing with Form in Memoir"

Readers: Stephanie Cesca, Ben Berman Ghan, Anthony Oliveira, and Marion Agnew

Asifa Sheikh is a coach with Firefly Creative Writing and enjoys supporting writers in developing their voices. Whether through coaching one-on-one, facilitating workshops or working in collaboration with community partners, Asifa feels honoured to work with others in growing their writing.

Stephanie Cesca was born and raised in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and three children. A former newspaper editor in both Canada and Europe, she is a graduate of Western University, Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Dotted Lines is her first novel.

Ben Berman Ghan is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. He is the author of What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019) and the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024). His prose, poetry, and essays have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Filling Station Magazine, The Blasted Tree Publishing Co., Pinhole Poetry, and The Ancilliary Review of Books. Find him at inkstainedwreck.ca.

Anthony Oliveira is an international bestselling and three-time National Magazine / two-time GLAAD award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. His first novel, Dayspring, was released on Easter 2024, and has since garnered the 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS and was named one of CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024. He hosts Dumpster Raccoon Cinema here in Toronto at the Revue, and writes AVENGERS ACADEMY for Marvel Comics, recently nominated for the 2025 GLAAD award for Best Comic.

Marion Agnew is the author of a novel, Making Up the Gods (Latitude 46, 2023) and a personal essay collection, Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s (Signature Editions, 2019). She lives in Shuniah, Ontario, on Lake Superior, in Anishinaabe/Robinson-Superior Treaty territory.

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