Welcome to The Ampersand Review February Reading Series! Join us in the B-Wing Gallery at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus for an immersive evening readings and discussion. The readings will be followed by an open mic; the sign-up sheet will be available at the event. Slots are limited, so be sure to arrive on time to reserve your time at the mic!
Kate Cayley is our host, and she is also this year's Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College. Kate Cayley has published two short story collections and three collections of poetry, and her plays have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She has won the Trillium Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, the ReLit Award for both fiction and poetry, and the K. M. Hunter Award for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Brick, Electric Literature, Joyland, Best Canadian Poetry and Best Canadian Stories, and she has been a writer in residence at McMaster University and the Toronto Public Library.
Sydney Hegele is our headlining reader. Sydney is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021), winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their novel Bird Suit is forthcoming with Invisible Publishing on May 07, 2024, and their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible in Fall 2025. Their essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, and others. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 Land (Toronto, Canada).
Moez Surani's writing has been published internationally, including in Harper's, the Globe & Mail, and Best Canadian Poetry. His visual art has been exhibited at WhiteBox Arts Space in New York, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and Nuit Blanche Toronto. He is the author of 4 poetry books and, most recently, the novel The Legend of Baraffo, which Omar El-Akkad called, "a lucid dream of a novel, a fable fierce in its moral clarity and gorgeous at the line level."