Brockton Writers Series 6

Join us Tuesday March 2, 7-9pm at Zoots Cafe, 1438 Dundas Street West, to hear readings by:

Anthony De Sa
Jenny Sampirisi
Lesley McAllister

Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several North American literary magazines. Barnacle Love is Anthony's first book. It was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award. His novel, Carnival of Desire, slotted for a 2011 release, will be set in 1977, the year a twelve-year-old shoeshine boy named Emanuel Jaques was brutally raped and murdered in Toronto. Anthony graduated from University of Toronto and did his post-graduate work at Queen’s University. He attended The Humber School for Writers, Ryerson University and now heads the English department and directs the creative writing program at a high school for the arts. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three boys.

Jenny Sampirisi is all those things that her bio says she is: an editor, writer, teacher, organizer and so on. She Screams (.ca), she BookThugs (.com), she New Schools (on College), and she simultaneously is and was. She'll read from a new manuscript called Croak for all the legitimate frogs and girls who spend their time at Zoots!

Lesley McAllister is a Toronto poet, fiction writer and journalist. Her work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, newspapers and on radio. She has published two works of fiction. Her poetry book Between You And Me was published in 2008 by The Mercury Press.

There will also be a 15 minute open mic session at the end. Please sign up at 6:50pm for this. There will be three 5 minute spots.

Free! Books, drinks and other goodies available for sale. Lots of time for neighbourly chat.

If you a writer who lives, works, hangs out in the Brockton area (loosely defined as the West Toronto neighbourhood bordered by Lansdowne, College, Queen and Gladstone--but we're flex about geography), contact farzanadoctor@rogers.com to be included in a future event.

All genres, experience level, ages, styles etc welcome!