This March we’re joined by authors Matthew J. Trafford and Rabindranath Maharaj at Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus! Come mingle with fellow book lovers and join us for an evening of storytelling. Our talented lineup of writers will be reading excerpts from their latest works followed by a Q&A session and open mic.

Please note that this event will be taking place in the Creative Campus Gallery in the B-Wing at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus.

Rabindranath Maharaj is an award-winning author of several novels, among them The Amazing Absorbing Boy, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award; A Perfect Pledge, a Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist; and Homer in Flight, a Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist.

Maharaj immigrated to Canada from Trinidad in the 1990s, and settled in Ajax, Ontario, where he taught high school and co-founded a literary magazine, LICHEN. He has been a writer-in-residence at the Toronto Reference Library, the University of the West Indies, and the University of New Brunswick. Apart from his novels and collections of short stories, he has published in various literary journals and anthologies; written reviews and articles for The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and others; written the radio series “Malcolm and Alvin” for CBC Radio; and co-written a screenplay for the film Malini.

Matthew J. Trafford earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He has twice been a finalist for the CBC Literary Prize, received an Honour of Distinction Dayne Ogilvie Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, and the Far Horizons Award from The Malahat Review. Douglas & McIntyre published his first collection of stories, The Divinity Gene, which Publishers Weekly described as “shot-through with moments of genuine pathos and even brilliance.” Trafford continues to publish stories as well as writing for the screen. He is an avid knitter and fibre artist in his alternate persona of Fairy Godfather Knits.

Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this event.