The Ampersand Review is proud to debut its Writing Series with author Gary Barwin! Join us in room B222 at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus for the chance to share your work with other writers and an established Canadian author. Slots are limited, so be to reserve your tickets early!

In this engaging and surprising workshop, Gary Barwin will lead participants on a series of writing exploits, exploring writing as both a destination and a means of getting there. He’ll introduce strategies and approaches for taking risks and breaking boundaries, ways of trampolining and trapdooring into new places with poetry and prose & points in between. Partipicants will explore new possibilities for creation as well as new ways of thinking about writing. They’ll road test a bunch of different approaches, write collaboratively, and try out an array of fun and generative writing activities.

Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist and the author of 31 books including Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 and, with Lillian Allen and Gregory Betts, Muttertongue. His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates which won the Leacock Medal and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize and was longlisted for Canada Reads. His most recent novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was the Hamilton Reads choice for 2023-2024.  His art and media works have been exhibited internationally. He lives in Hamilton. garybarwin.com