About this Event
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 Understory Cafe on Church St in Toronto, ON, Canada, or virtual over livestream. This is a must-attend gathering for all literature enthusiasts!
Guest Speaker: Rowan Jetté Knox on "The Power of Personal Storytelling: How Memoir Fosters Societal Change"
Readers: Sonal Champsee, K.R. Wilson, Alison Gadsby, and Darren Greer
Rowan Jetté Knox is an award-winning Canadian writer, human rights advocate, international speaker, and author of the national bestselling memoirs Love Lives Here and One Sunny Afternoon. His work in trans and mental health advocacy has been featured in media worldwide. Rowan is the co-owner of Understory Cafe in downtown Toronto, a queer-run and community-focused coffee shop and wine bar.
Sonal Champsee’s work appears in anthologies, magazines and newspapers, such as The New Quarterly, Today’s Parent, and The Toronto Star. Her debut novel, Everyone Can’t Be Wrong, was a finalist for the 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. Sonal lives in Toronto, Canada.
K.R. Wilson is the author of the novels An Idea About My Dead Uncle, Call Me Stan (which was longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour) and its sequel Stan On Guard. You can find him at www.krwilson.ca and on socials at @krwbooks. He lives in Toronto.
Darren Greer is an award-winning Canadian author and essayist. His works include the novels Still Life with June, which won the ReLit Award in 2004, and Just Beneath My Skin, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2014.
Alison Gadsby is the author of Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive. Her debut novel, Dreams of the Weary, is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press (2027). She is co-host on HOWL (CIUT, 89.5 FM) and host of Junction Reads, a reading series in Toronto, where she lives in a multigenerational home on Treaty 13 land.
Event venue & nearby stays
505 Church St, 505 Church Street, Toronto, Canada
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.