About this Event
Carrianne Leung is a fiction writer and educator. Her book of linked stories, That Time I Loved You, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first collection, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award, and has been optioned for television. Her novel, The Wondrous Woo, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. She holds a PhD in sociology and equity studies from OISE/University of Toronto and teaches at the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto.
Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: Dancing in the Dust, which was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; The Mending Season; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road; and This Book Betrays My Brother. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, which was staged for five years at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.
Pacinthe Mattar is a Toronto-based journalist, writer, producer and journalism educator whose work on objectivity has been called “essential learning for future journalists.” She is currently a 2025/2026 William Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College.
She was the 2023 Asper Fellow in Media at Western University and was the 2022 Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2025, Pacinthe was selected for the Winter Writers Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Her feature essay for The Walrus, "Objectivity Is A Privilege Afforded to White Journalists" won Gold at the 2021 National Magazine Awards.
Event venue & nearby stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.