Featuring:

Tanis MacDonald (she/her) is a free range-literary animal and the author of seven books, including her latest, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022). Her 2019 book Mobile: poems was longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Tanis hosts the podcast Watershed Writers and teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at Wilfrid Laurier University. She lives as a grateful guest on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples on the Haldimand Tract in SW Ontario.

Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator with a particular interest in spaces-between. Her first book, Everything, now (Brick Books 2012), is a love letter to the dead and a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation award. Jessica’s most recent book—The Whole Singing Ocean (Nightwood 2020)—is a true story blending long poem, investigation, sailor slang and ecological grief, and was longlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Raymond Souster Award. She is currently at work on a memoir in fragments about the intersection of motherhood (to twins) and art.

Adi Dasgupta is a new generation creative writer and educator who resides in Scarborough. Adi creates written work that focuses on themes of existential angst and the pursuit of identity. He is inspired by the transience and temporality of minority bodies in ghettoized spaces within urban communities. Primarily expressing his message through creative writing and photography, Adi uses his experience working with youth in Toronto's most vulnerable neighbourhoods, and personal lived experiences, to shine light on shadowed narratives of life in the city.

Host: Paul Edward Costa

Open Mic: Yes