Heather Birrell, Saad Omar Khan, Teri Vlassopoulos (Livestreaming)

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Join us in person at TYPE Books Junction for readings and conversation with <a href="https://heatherbirrell.com/" title="https://heatherbirrell.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Heather Birrell</a>, <a href="https://www.saadomarkhan.com/" title="https://www.saadomarkhan.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Saad Omar Khan,</a> <a href="https://www.terivlassopoulos.com/" title="https://www.terivlassopoulos.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Teri Vlassopoulos</a>.TYPE Books Junction, 2887 Dundas Street West. 6:30pm start. Doors open all day.You do not need to register if you're joining us in person. PWYC at the door. Registration here is for those who wish to access the live-stream.<a href="https://heatherbirrell.com/" title="https://heatherbirrell.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Heather Birrell </a>is the author of two short story collections: Mad Hope (Coach House Books, 2012) and I know you are but what am I? (Coach House Books, 2004). Her stories have been shortlisted for both the Western and National Magazine Awards and have appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals. A frequent book reviewer and winner of the Journey Prize, she also works as a high school teacher and a creative writing instructor.From <a href="https://chbooks.com/Books/B/Born" title="https://chbooks.com/Books/B/Born" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coach House Books:</a>"What happens when an English teacher goes into labor during a high school lockdown?High school English teacher Elise loves teaching Shakespeare. She is also very pregnant and trapped in a classroom with her Grade 12 students during a lockdown. This isn't your typical lockdown story. With clear-eyed empathy, Born explores the many pitfalls and utopian possibilities of the school system, motherhood, and caregiving, and the sometimes fraught, sometimes transcendent nature of the student-teacher relationship."<a href="https://www.saadomarkhan.com/" title="https://www.saadomarkhan.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Saad Omar Khan</a> was born in the United Arab Emirates to Pakistani parents and lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong and South Korea before immigrating to Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and has completed a certificate in Creative Writing from the School of Continuing Studies (University of Toronto) where he was a finalist for the Random House Creative Writing Award (2010 and 2011) and for the Marina Nemat Award (2012). In 2019, he was longlisted for the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Best Canadian Stories 2025 and other publications.From <a href="https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/drinking-the-ocean" title="https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/drinking-the-ocean" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wolsak &amp; Wynn:</a>"The day after his thirty-third birthday, Murad spots a familiar face at a crowded intersection in downtown Toronto. Shocked, he stands silently as Sofi, a woman he’d fallen in love with almost a decade ago, walks by holding the hand of a small child. Murad turns and descends the subway steps to return home to his wife as the past washes over him and he is taken back to the first time they met. Moving between Lahore, London and Toronto, Drinking the Ocean is a story of connections lost and found and of the many kinds of love that shape a life, whether familial, romantic or spiritual."<a href="https://www.terivlassopoulos.com/" title="https://www.terivlassopoulos.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Teri Vlassopoulos</a> has published two books, a collection of short stories, Bats or Swallows (Invisible Publishing), which was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and a novel, Escape Plans (Invisible Publishing). Her fiction and non-fiction has been published in Room Magazine, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, The Quarantine Review, Open Book, and more. She also publishes a regular Substack newsletter, Bibliographic.From <a href="https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/living-expenses/" title="https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/living-expenses/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Invisible Publishing:</a> As the children of a single mother who immigrated from the Philippines, Laura and Claire have always been exceptionally close. That is, until Claire moves to San Francisco for a startup job in Silicon Valley while Laura and her husband remain in Toronto and decide to start a family. Enter the slow, hopeful, devastating process of fertility treatments. While Laura prepares for IVF, Claire has her own encounter with the fertility industry. Living Expenses interrogates the strain that can accompany even the strongest of relationships, and captures the inevitable creep of technology into all facets of its characters’ lives, from communication to reproduction. This is a PWYC event.All proceeds support the authors.

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