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Please join us as three disabled writers—Cait Gordon, Jason M. Harley, and Madona Skaff-Koren—converse about their process, their protagonists, their world-building, and how they make spaces both for their characters and themselves as creatives. Moderated by Su J Sokol, the discussion will be followed by a Q&A period and an opportunity to obtain signed copies of the authors’ works.This event will take place in store at Argo Bookshop. Masks are required. The event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on TicketSource.
ABOUT OUR GUESTS
Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. She is the author of the award-nominated, disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Her short stories featuring disabled and/or neurodivergent heroes appear in Spring into SciFi (2024), We Shall Be Monsters, Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes, There’s No Place, and Stargazers: Microtales from the Cosmos. She has had poems published in Polar Borealis and Mollyhouse. Cait also twice joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the (award-nominated) Nothing Without Us and (award-winning) Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies.
Jason M. Harley is a queer, non-binary McGill University professor in the Faculty of Medicine and a Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Their comic book, Fake News and Dinosaurs, co-created with their husband and visual artist, Daniel Beaudin, has been featured on Global News TV and the Toronto Star. Their fiction is forthcoming from Baffling Magazine and has appeared in Tesseracts, Polar Borealis and elsewhere. They have served on panels for Chicon (WorldCon), World Fantasy, and Can-Con science fiction and fantasy conventions and are a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFFWA; Associate Member) and the Quebec Writers' Federation.
Madona Skaff-Koren is the author of the Naya Investigates series, about a young woman disabled by multiple sclerosis, who turns sleuth to solve crimes. The character was inspired by her own MS diagnosis. The series so far includes Journey of a Thousand Steps (2015), and Death by Association (2020). Her stand alone novel, Shifting Trust (2021) is a science fiction thriller set twenty-five years into the future. She has several SF and mystery short stories appearing in various anthologies. Her essay on “Number One from Star Trek” is in the anthology, Women on Women in Trek (2024).
Su J Sokol (moderator) is a social rights activist and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City, xe now makes Montréal xyr home. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014), which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Run J Run (2019), and Zee (2020), a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol's short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies When xe is not writing, battling slumlords, bringing evil bureaucracies to their knees, and smashing borders, Sokol curates and participates in readings and literary events in Canada and abroad.
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1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2
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