The Ampersand Review is proud to debut its Writing Series with author Stuart Ross! 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!

AMPERSAND WRITING SERIES with STUART ROSS 

SELF-PORTRAIT: POEMS & PROSE OF OBSERVATION

THE WORKSHOP: Through a series of speedy, positive, pleasurable writing projects, we will explore the idea of writing a portrait of ourselves through that which we observe and prioritize. Poets and prose-ists both welcome!

THE WRITER: Stuart Ross is the author of over 20 books of fiction, poetry, and personal essays, as well as scores of chapbooks. His most recent books are the memoir The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, for which he won the 2023 Trillium Book Award, and the short story collection I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub. Stuart received the 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize, the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, and the 2010 Relit Award for Short Fiction. He has been writer in residence at Queen’s University and the University of Ottawa, and has taught at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the University of Toronto School for Continuing Studies. Since 1979, Stuart has run a micropress called Proper Tales. In the 1980s, he sold over 7,000 of his chapbooks on the streets of Toronto, wearing signs such as “Writer Going To Hell: Buy My Books.” His poetry has been translated into Nynorsk, French, Spanish, Russian, Slovene, and Estonian. Stuart lives in the tiny town of Cobourg, on the north shore of Lake Ontario.