About this Event
Join us for the launch of As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories! With editor Terese Mason Pierre, Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, and DJ Myles.
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. A masseuse attends her mother's fourth funeral, only to encounter family she's never met. A postdoc instructor navigates an almost-life in an Elsewhere realm of safety and comfort. After societal collapse, an immigrant leaves her precarious station, and her memories, behind. A woman isolating from a new virus starts hallucinating. A young nanny accepts a job with a peculiar employer in search of immortality. A medium is tasked with summoning a spirit that hits too close to home. And two teenagers test a friendship over magic carpet flying practice.
These ten breathtaking stories explore natural and urban landscapes, living and dead relationships, economic catastrophe, love, and desire-all while celebrating the persistent and ever-changing self, and envisioning beautiful Black futures.
TERESE MASON PIERRE is a Toronto-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, Uncanny Magazine, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. One of ten winners of the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, she was named a Writers' Trust Rising Star. Terese Mason Pierre is an editor at Augur, a Canadian journal of speculative literature, and the author of Myth (House of Anansi Press), a collection of poetry.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Harlem Restaurant, 745 Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada
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