This September we kick off a brand new Reading Series with authors AGA. Wilmot and Mark Sampson in New Approaches to Literary Horror Fiction! Join us for an evening of author readings and an in-depth panel followed by a Q&A session and open mic sign-up.

Please note that this event will be taking place in the Creative Campus Gallery (room B234) in the B-Wing at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus.

AGA Wilmot (BFA, MPub) is a writer and editor based out of Toronto, Ontario. They have won awards for fiction, short fiction, and screenwriting, including the Friends of Merril Short Story Contest and ECW Press’s Best New Speculative Novel Contest. For seven years they served as co-publisher and co-EIC of the Ignyte- and British Fantasy Award-nominated Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Their credits include myriad online and in-print publications and anthologies. They are also on the editorial advisory board for Poplar Press, the speculative fiction imprint of Wolsak & Wynn. Books of AGA’s include The Death Scene Artist (Buckrider Books, 2018) and Withered (ECW Press, 2024). They are represented by Kelvin Kong of K2 Literary (k2literary.com). Find them online at agawilmot.ca.

Mark Sampson is a fiction writer, poet, book reviewer, and literary critic, originally from Prince Edward Island and now living and writing in Toronto. He is the author of eight books, including the novels Lowfield (Now or Never Publishing, 2025), All the Animals on Earth (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020), The Slip (Dundurn, 2017), and Sad Peninsula (Dundurn, 2014).

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