Glad Day Bookshop - 499 Church Street, Toronto

Ring in the (belated) new year with readings from Canada's best emerging writers! Doors open at 6:30p and readings begin at 7:00p. Here are the writers ready to delight you this JOLLY JANUARY:

ISABELLA WANG At 18, Isabella Wang is a two-time finalist and the youngest writer shortlisted for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her poetry and prose appears in Room Magazine, The /tEmz/ Review, Train Journal, Looseleaf Magazine, carte blanche, Invisible Blog, and The New Quarterly.

VIVIAN LI Vivian Li is a writer, musician, and inventor. Her creative works are published in journals such as The Window, The UC Review, and ellipsis… literature & art. She is currently editing her novel, and can be reached @eliktherain.

MARGEAUX FELDMAN Margeaux Feldman is a writer and educator in Tkaronto. She’s finishing her PhD in English and is working on a memoir entitled The Bed of Sickness: Essays on Care.

ASHLEIGH ALLEN Ashleigh Allen is a Canadian educator and writer, via New York City, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto.

AMANDA MERPAW Amanda is a poet and educator. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, and Room. She is an assistant editor at The Temz Review.