About this Event
This September we're kicking off the fall Reading Series with Canadian authors A.G.A. Wilmot and Mark Sampson in a reading panel all about new approaches to writing literary horror fiction!
The September Reading Series is happening on Thursday, September 17th 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 horror! Guests will also have the chance to purchase copies of Wilmot and Sampson's recent works, as well as sign up for our open mic at the end of the evening.
AGA Wilmot (BFA, MPub) is a writer and editor based out of Toronto, Ontario. They have won awards for fiction, short fiction, and screenwriting, including the Friends of Merril Short Story Contest and ECW Press’s Best New Speculative Novel Contest. For seven years they served as co-publisher and co-EIC of the Ignyte- and British Fantasy Award-nominated Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Their credits include myriad online and in-print publications and anthologies. They are also on the editorial advisory board for Poplar Press, the speculative fiction imprint of Wolsak & Wynn. Books of AGA’s include The Death Scene Artist (Buckrider Books, 2018) and Withered (ECW Press, 2024). They are represented by Kelvin Kong of K2 Literary (). Find them online at .
Mark Sampson is a fiction writer, poet, book reviewer, and literary critic, originally from Prince Edward Island and now living and writing in Toronto. He is the author of eight books, including the novels Lowfield (Now or Never Publishing, 2025), All the Animals on Earth (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020), The Slip (Dundurn, 2017), and Sad Peninsula (Dundurn, 2014).
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Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus, 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga, Canada
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