Here are seven different LGBTQ+ authors participating in the Word On The Street festival in Toronto this weekend (plus, their must-read new releases to add to your fall reading list)…
Toronto’s annual Word On The Street literary festival is back with a brand-new lineup of talks, readings, workshops and more from critically acclaimed and emerging authors. Canada’s largest free book and magazine festival, returns for its 35th year on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29, 2024 at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
This beloved annual celebration of storytelling and community will once again transform the city into a literary wonderland, showcasing the best of Indigenous and Canadian authors. Plus, this year the festival’s programme boasts an impressive list featuring a number of must-read queer authors! (Click here for the full programme.)
If you’re in Toronto and you’re looking for something to do this weekend, be sure to check out the Word On The Street literary festival—and if you’re not in the city, or you can’t make it to the festival, don’t worry; you can still support these seven queer authors by reading their newest books from the comfort of your couch.
A.G.A. Wilmot
A.G.A. Wilmot’s book Withered is a queer paranormal horror novel in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness.
* A.G.A. Wilmot will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Saturday, September 28 at 12:45pm; Stage B.
Matteo L. Ceriili
Matteo L. Ceriili’s book Lockjaw is a small-town ghost story, where monsters living and dead haunt the streets, thehomes and the minds of the inhabitants.
* Matteo L. Ceriili will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Saturday, September 28 at 11:30am; Stage B.
Anuja Vargese
The stories in Chrysalis, Anuja Varghese’s debut collection, are by turns poignant and chilling, blurring the lines between the real world and worlds beyond.
* Anuja Varghese will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Sunday, September 29 at 2:15pm; Stage B.
A. D. Sui
A. D. Sui’s book The Dragonfly Gambit is a gut-wrenching tale of revenge with a cast of delightfully messed up characters and heartfelt portrayals of disability.
* A. D. Sui will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Sunday, September 29 at 1:00pm; Stage B.
Paige Layle
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically in her book But Everyone Feels This Way: How an autism diagnosis saved my life.
* Paige Layle will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Sunday, September 29 at 2:45pm; Stage A.
Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch
Edited by Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch, El Ghourabaa: A queer and trans collection of oddities is an anthology brimming with gems by emerging and established writers and an homage to the lineages and complexities of queer Arab life.
* Both Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch will appear at the 2024 Word On The Street literary festival on Sunday, September 29 at 1:30pm; Stage A.
You can click on this link and scroll down to find each and every author participating in Word On The Street this weekend and find more information on what they will be specifically doing. (All the authors will be doing either a reading or a part of a panel discussion as well as book signings. Sometimes all three!) For more information on the Word On The Street literary festival visit, thewordonthestreet.ca.
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