I’ll be appearing at Headwaters Arts’ 2024 Authors Afternoon on Sunday, October 6 on a panel with Deepa Rajagopalan and Greg Rhyno. I’m thrilled!

Join me for an in-person reading and discussion of All the Shining People at By The Lake Book Club event series on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, from 7 p.m. at Assembly Hall in Etobicoke!

I will be appearing on a panel called Short Stories Are the Cutting Edge of Fiction on Saturday, November 4 at the first-ever &nd Festival in Mississauga, ON.

I’m thrilled to be participating in two events at TIFA, the Toronto International Festival of Authors on Friday, September 22.

An interactive, free creative nonfiction writing workshop coming up on September 20, 2023.

Thank you so much to Ontario Creates and The Word on the Street for the opportunity to read with two of my fellow Trillium nominees at this year’s festival!

Ontario Creates has announced the finalists for the 2023 Trillium Book Awards/Prix Trillium, and I’m surprised, and thrilled, to find that All the Shining People is on it!

I’m thrilled to find All the Shining People on the short list of nominees for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, presented by The Writers’ Union of Canada. The Award recognizes the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2022 in the English language…

Please join us for an intimate conversation on home, displacement and belonging with authors Kathy Friedman and Leonarda Carranza.

Books will be available for purchase, and of course, the authors will be signing!

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Holy Blossom Temple: 1950 Bathurst St. & online

Registration Required: $15 for HBT members; $25 for non-members

A round-up of upcoming readings and events, January-April 2023

Don’t miss this free, virtual panel at the world-renowned Jaipur Literary Festival on Sunday, November 20 at 10 a.m. It’s about some of the topics closest to my heart: migration, displacement, alienation, and belonging.

I’m excited to appear at Wordstock Sudbury’s Literary Festival on November 4 and 5 for an exciting panel discussion about short stories, and to lead a masterclass on writing creative nonfiction about mental health.

I will be appearing at the wonderful Wild Writers Literary Festival in Waterloo on Saturday, October 29 to discuss the making of short-story collections.

On Monday, October 17, I will be appearing at Word Feast: Fredericton’s Literary Festival on the panel Writing as Healing. The event begins at 10 a.m. EST and will take place on Zoom. Registration is free!

Great news: The audiobook of All the Shining People, narrated by Rosey Tyler, is now available for purchase from Kobo and Google Play!

I will be appearing at the venerable Brockton Writers Series on Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30 p.m. to talk about a subject dear to me: writing and mental health.

This year’s Word on the Street Festival is back, in person, at Queen’s Park! Join me for The Story from Here with short-fiction writers Martha Bátiz and Dan K. Woo on Saturday, June 11 from 6–7 p.m. on the Vibrant Voices stage.

For your viewing enjoyment, here’s a clip of me reading from All the Shining People at the book’s online launch on April 23, 2022…

Some of the songs that inspired and, in many cases, appear in, All the Shining People.