Join us for our April 2024 reading event!
Our organization supports writers of all ages and professional levels. Join us on Saturday, April 27th for presentations of original writing by Thando Bhebhe, Susan Fish, David Neil Lee, Mckenzie Martin, and Sarah Tolmie.
FOOD & DRINKS will be available for purchase from the venue.
BOOKS will be available for purchase.
FREE PUBLIC PARKING is available throughout Downtown Paris.
This event is made possible with funding support from both the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and the Government of Ontario.
Thando Bhebhe is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with an honors degree in English. Born in Zimbabwe and raised in Namibia, he emigrated to Canada in 2019 with a wealth of diverse experiences to draw from within his writing. His short stories and poems have been published in The Sputnik, a university newspaper. He dreams of one day writing in a professional capacity.
Susan Fish is a writer and editor living in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with her husband and dogs. She has two Masters degrees, one in Religion and Culture, one in Theological Studies. Renaissance is her third novel. Her writing has appeared in various literary and trade publications, and she has written widely for the nonprofit sector. On her first visit to Italy, Susan learned to make pasta and almost wandered into a prison while looking for the opera house. On her second trip—a whirlwind 24-hour solo research trip—she accidentally drank from the wrong water fountain, and lived to tell the tale. At home, she gets around by bicycle, hosts play-reading parties, and stays up too late reading and writing.
The “Midnight Games” saga has made David Neil Lee Canada’s leading Lovecraftian author. Last year, The Great Outer Dark (2023) concluded a trilogy that started with young Nate Silva battling a neighbourhood cult that was summoning the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos to a struggling steel town (The Midnight Games 2016), spirited him to a west coast inlet aboard the antique airship Sorcerer (The Medusa Deep 2021) to confront the dread Nyarlathotep, and then shot him across the galaxy to the planet of the Great Old Ones, before landing back in Hamilton to pit Nate against shoggoths, the deadly night-gaunts, and Yog-Sothoth himself. David Lee has also written acclaimed books on jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Paul Bley, completed his PhD dissertation on free jazz in Toronto, and authored the international bestseller Chainsaws: A History. David was born in British Columbia but now makes his home in Hamilton, Ontario.
Mckenzie Martin (she/her) is a writer and poet from Hamilton, Ontario. She is currently an English Literature major at Wilfrid Laurier University, but she has been writing for as long as she can remember. She has a passion for writing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Her dream is to write and publish stories that entertain and intrigue readers.
Sarah Tolmie is an award-winning poet and speculative fiction writer, author of twelve books, and professor of British literature and creative writing at University of Waterloo. For more information, visit www.sarahtolmie.ca.