About this Event
This October we're continuing the fall Reading Series with Canadian authors Yiming Ma and Whitney French in a reading panel all about new approaches to writing literary science fiction!
The October Reading Series is happening on Thursday, October 15th, from 6:00-8:00pm in the Creative Campus Gallery (room B234) at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion campus. Come meet the writers, enjoy some treats, and learn about all things literary science! Guests will also have the chance to purchase copies of Ma and French's recent works, as well as sign up for our open mic at the end of the evening.
Born in Shanghai, Yiming Ma spent a decade in tech and education before writing the dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, which was named a Spotify Editors' Pick, longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award, and featured on Best Book of 2025 lists by Electric Literature, Debutiful, PEN America and elsewhere. It was a finalist for the 2026 Rakuten Kobo Prize in Speculative Fiction. Yiming attended Stanford for his MBA, and Warren Wilson for his MFA. His stories and essays appear in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Florida Review, and elsewhere. His story “Swimmer of Yangtze” won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize. He lives in Toronto with his daughter, wife and beloved two cats.
Whitney French (she/her) is a writer, educator and publisher. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology Black Writers Matter(University of Regina, 2019) andGriot: Six Writers Sojourn into the Dark(Penguin Random House Canada, 2022). Her novel-in-verse,Syncopation was recently published by Wolsak and Wynn. Whitney French is also the co-founder and publisher ofHarbour Press, the only Black, queer, feminist press in Canada.Currently she is an Assistant Professor teaching creative writing at the University of British Colombia. She lives in Vancouver with her toddler and two cats.
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Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus, 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga, Canada
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