Join us for an evening of short readings by 2SLGBTQ writers from Canada. This special online edition will feature writers Christopher DiRaddo (The Family Way), Suzette Mayr (The Sleeping Car Porter), Matthew James Weigel (Whitemud Walking) and Jane Walsh (The Inconvenient Heiress).

To participate in the event on Zoom please register on the Eventbrite page.

AFTER you’ve registered, please return to the Eventbrite page at the time of the event and click on “Access link” under “When and Where/location.”

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Suggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work.

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Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Family Way and The Geography of Pluto. In 2014, he created the Violet Hour reading series and book club, which has to date provided a platform for more than 200 LGBTQ writers. He is past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. https://christopherdiraddo.com/

Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels, including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, published in 2022. Her novels have won the ReLit Award and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, and have twice been longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her fiction has also been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. https://www.suzettemayr.com/

Matthew James Weigel is a Dene and Métis poet and artist born and raised in Edmonton. Currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Alberta, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. He is the designer for Moon Jelly House press and his words and art have been published by people like Arc Poetry Magazine, Book*Hug, The Polyglot, and The Mamawi Project. Matthew is a Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalist, National Magazine Award finalist, Nelson Ball Prize finalist, Cécile E. Mactaggart award winner, and winner of both the 2020 Vallum Chapbook Award and 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award for his chapbook “It Was Treaty / It Was Me.” His debut full-length collection “Whitemud Walking” recently won the Alcuin Society Award for book design and is available now from Coach House Books. https://www.matthewjamesweigel.com/

Jane Walsh is a queer historical romance novelist who loves everything Regency. She is delighted to have the opportunity to put her studies in history and costume design to good use by writing love stories. She owes a great debt of gratitude to the local coffee shop for fueling her novel writing endeavors. Jane’s happily ever after is centered on her wife and their cat and their cozy home together in Canada. https://www.janewalshwrites.com/