Glad Day Bookshop
We're excited to start the New Year with this stellar lineup! Meet our fantastic emerging writers:
YELIBERT CRUZ Yelibert Cruz Roo is a Venezuelan-Canadian storyteller who grew up in Guelph. Her work explores what it means to be a queer latinx woman navigating space in a diasporic community.
SANNA WANI Sanna Wani is a person and poet in Toronto. Her work is available in The Puritan, HOBART, and canthius. She loves daisies.
NICOLE HALDOUPIS Nicole Haldoupis is a writer from Toronto. She’s the editor of Grain, and co-creator of untethered and Applebeard Editions. Her work can be found in The Feathertale Review, Bad Nudes, and others.
BAYLEIGH FRASER Bayleigh Fraser is an emerging poet currently residing and writing in Chatham, Ontario. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominee, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 3Elements Review, Antiphon, Hermeneutic Chaos, One, Rattle and other publications.
EVE KRAKOW Eve Krakow is a writer and translator living in Montreal. Her stories have been published in lichen literary journal, Maisonneuve, Cahoots, Smithsonian Magazine, Quebec Heritage News and SHY: An Anthology.
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/
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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.