Glad Day Bookshop

The Speakeasy Reading Series is back! Don’t know what Speakeasy is? It’s a monthly event hosted by the Guelph Creative Writing MFA Program, featuring readings from students and alumni, as well as local (or visiting) writers!

ALL are welcome at this community event! **

September's featured readers are:

LIZ HOWARD's Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, the first time the prize has been awarded to a debut collection. She is of mixed European and Anishinaabe descent. Liz was born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario.

TYLER PENNOCK is a 2-spirit Cree and Métis adoptee from northern Alberta (around lesser slave lake). They are a graduate of the creative writing MFA at Guelph, and before that - University of Toronto. They prefer to write poetry and theatre. Their book of poems - bones - will be released in spring of 2020.

A. LIGHT ZACHARY is the author of THE END, BY ANNA, as well as an editor with The Puritan and Metatron Press. Zachary lives between downtown Toronto and Cap-de-Cocagne, New Brunswick, and they are currently at work on their first collection of poems: I'M SCARED, TOO. (@yyzachary)

SAHAR GOLSHAN is a Teochew Chinese-Persian writer and language learner. She is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of Guelph and a Diaspora Dialogues Long Form Mentorship participant. Sahar’s short documentary KAR will premiere at the Reel Asian Film Festival in November 2019.

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• Glad Day Bookshop has an accessibility ramp at its entrance, and a gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washroom. The venue sells tea and coffee as well as alcoholic beverages, and BOOKS! It is also the world's oldest surviving LGBTQ bookstore and Tkaronto's oldest surviving bookstore! We are SO EXCITED and honoured to be hosting Speakeasy here this year!