The Ampersand Review October Reading Series

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus | Mississauga

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The Ampersand Review October Reading Series
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This October we’re joined by Mawenzi House authors Rabindranath Maharaj and Linzey Corridon at Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus!
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This October we’re joined by Mawenzi House authors Rabindranath Maharaj and Linzey Corridon at Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus! Our lineup of talented writers will share their work in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Come sip on some coffee, meet fellow book lovers, and immerse yourself in a world of words. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to support local artists and indulge in the magic of storytelling.


Rabindranath Maharaj is an award-winning author of several novels, among them The Amazing Absorbing Boy, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award; A Perfect Pledge, a Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist; and Homer in Flight, a Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist.

Maharaj immigrated to Canada from Trinidad in the 1990s, and settled in Ajax, Ontario, where he taught high school and co-founded a literary magazine, LICHEN. He has been a writer-in-residence at the Toronto Reference Library, the University of the West Indies, and the University of New Brunswick. Apart from his novels and collections of short stories, he has published in various literary journals and anthologies; written reviews and articles for The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and others; written the radio series “Malcolm and Alvin” for CBC Radio; and co-written a screenplay for the film Malini.


Linzey Corridon is a mixed-race (Afro-Euro-Indo Caribbean) educator, and a Vincentian-Canadian poet and critic. He is the 2021 recipient of Canada’s Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and is currently completing doctoral work on the nuances of the Queeribbean quotidian at McMaster University. His writing has been published in The Puritan, Kola, SX Salon, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Montreal Writes and more. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus, 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga, Canada

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