We're back on Thanksgiving Day with five more fantastic emerging writers. Doors open at 6:30p and readings begin at 7:00p. We are celebrating OUTRAGEOUS OCTOBER with this outstanding lineup:

TAMARA JONG
Tamara Jong is a Montreal-born mixed-race writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has appeared in Ricepaper, Room, carte blanche, The New Quarterly, Invisible Publishing, and Body & Soul.

MICHAEL RUSSELL
Michael Russell is a queer poet with BPD, Bipolar Disorder and massive jolts of anxiety. He’s working on a chapbook called Grindr Opera. Keep an eye out for it!

CARLY VANDERGRIENDT
Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt's writing has appeared in Journey Prize Stories 30, Maisonneuve, THIS, Humber Literary Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal, where she is at work on her first novel.

MAŠA TORBICA
Maša Torbica is a Serbian-Canadian writer and scholar. Her recent work has appeared in The New Quarterly, The Puritan, FreeFall, Versal (Netherlands), and Qu Literary Magazine (USA).

ANA RODRIGUEZ MACHADO
Ana Rodriguez Machado lives and writes in Toronto. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Puritan Town Crier, and elsewhere.

ABOUT GLAD DAY BOOKSHOP
Glad Day Bookshop is the world's oldest surviving LGBTQ bookstore and also Toronto's oldest surviving bookstore. It is a wheelchair accessible bookstore, coffee shop, cocktail bar, event space and dance club. It is a flexible, inclusive space that is being used by the diverse LGBTQ communities of Toronto to amplify creativity, story, sexuality, liberation and love. Learn more: https://www.gladdaybookshop.com/

The EW Reading Series is dedicated to the professionally serious writer who has not yet published a book. Our readers have gone on to win awards, place their work, publish books, and gain further recognition as the up-and-coming writers of Canada. EW is committed to establishing a space that is safe and welcome to writers and audience members from underrepresented communities and we encourage you to write to us if you wish to join as a reader. We are happy to answer any questions about how we are creating this space and welcome feedback on how to be more inclusive.