Friday, October 18, 2024 7:00pm EDT at Glad Day Book Shop, 499 Church Street, Toronto ON
Humber Literary Review is Turning 10!!!!
We hope you will all join us at Glad Day Bookshop on October 18th at 7pm for a night of readings, memories, great food and prizes!
Here’s the list of fabulous guests who will be appearing at our 10th Anniversary party. 10 years = 10 guests, one of whom appeared in our first issue all the way back in 2014. Join us for a night of schmoozing, laughing, remembering, and reading!
Guest Readers Include:
MICAH TOUB (Mike-ah Tobe – rhymes with robe)
Micah is an author and journalist who has contributed features, columns and short fiction for a variety of publications. He currently writes the Pet of the Month column for The West End Phoenix, and edits features at The Globe and Mail. His short story “Thank You All for Coming” appeared in the inaugural issue of The Humber Literary Review way back in 2014. Even earlier than that,his personal essay about growing up with psychologist parents won a National Magazine Award, and inspired his memoir, Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks (Doubleday Canada/W.W. Norton).
CATRIONA WRIGHT
Catriona Wright is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection, Continuity Errors, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the poetry collection Table Manners and the short story collection Difficult People. She is a big fan of the Humber Literary Review! Her poems appeared in Vol. 2 Issue 1 and she was lucky to be interviewed by David Miller in Vol. 11 Issue 1.
KEITH GAREBIAN
Keith Garebian has won international acclaim for his theatre books (especially his Broadway production histories and his biography William Hutt: Soldier Actor), and he has been widely praised for his poetry collections such as Frida: Paint Me as a Volcano, Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems, Children of Ararat, Poetry is Blood, Against Forgetting, In the Bowl of My Eye, and Finger to Finger. Some of his poetry has been translated into French, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Armenian. Garebian’s poetry has been recorded on CDs, and has also been adapted for dance and music and vocals. He has been a book reviewer for the Humber Literary Review since 2021.
SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI
Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being and a finalist for the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her fiction received an honourable mention for Humber Literary Review’s fiction award in 2018, when it was judged by Cherie Dimaline and Ayelet Tsabari. She continues to review books for HLR, most recently Wayde Compton’s Kreisel Lecture, Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics. She is at work on a novel.
SADI MUKTADIR
Sadi Muktadir is a writer from Toronto. His debut novel, Land of No Regrets, was published by HarperCollins Canada and Hanover Square Press on May 21st, 2024. His short stories have appeared in Joyland Magazine, the Humber Literary Review, Blank Spaces, The New Quarterly and other places. He is a two-time finalist for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence and twice shortlisted for the Malahat Open Season Awards for best short fiction. His first published short story ever actually appeared in the Humber Literary Review in 2017, titled ‘Family Dynamics’. He works as an Editor, and continues to read and write. Find him online at @sadi_muktadir on both X and Instagram.
JESS TAYLOR
Jess Taylor is a writer and poet who works on the traditional lands of the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat peoples and the Missaussagas of the Credit, in the city now called Toronto. Jess is the author of two collections of short stories, Pauls and Just Pervs, and a novel, Play. Jess is currently working on a second novel, Experiencer; a third story collection, The Problem; and a memoir, Pelvis. Jess also runs an Instagram series called Stop the Doom-Scroll, where she interviews one writer a month and invites them to read short passages from their recently published books. When Jess isn’t writing, reading, or collaborating with other writers, she parents and works in heathcare education. Her stories “Aquafit” and “I am a Sludge Monster in a Storm Drain” were published in the Humber Literary Review, with the latter accompanied by a custom song by Jenny Berkel.
PATRICIA ARHINSON
Patricia Arhinson (she/her) is a full-time student in the Bachelor of Professional and Creative Writing Program at Humber College. She recently worked as an editor for The Humber Literary Review Spotlight Edition. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology but decided that she was more suited to writing poetry about mental illness—rather than treating it in others. Driven by her personal experiences, she writes frankly about mental health and hopes readers can find solace, or at least understanding, in her work. Her poetry was published in Vol. 11, issue 2 of HLR.
TYLER PENNOCK
Tyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), and Blood (2022) is a two-spirit adoptee queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They were the Inaugural Indigenous FASS Artist-in-Residence at Carleton University (2023), as well as a guest editor (poetry submission) for HLR in 2022.
ZALIKA REID-BENTA
Zalika Reid-Benta is the author of River Mumma, Frying Plantain and the forthcoming picture book The Twelve Days of Jamaican Christmas. River Mumma was the finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and Frying Plantain won the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. She is currently attempting to work on three different projects because she is a masochist.
MEAGHAN STRIMAS
Meaghan Strimas is an award-winning writer, educator and editor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and her fourth collection, Make It Stop, is forthcoming. Yes or Nope, Strimas’s third book, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She is also the editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen andthe Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, which she co-edited with the late Priscila Uppal, a person she misses dearly.
Meaghan joined Humber Polytechnic in 2012, and she helped to launch the Humber Literary Review shortly thereafter. She has served as the magazine’s editor and interviews editor, and she’s presently the HLR’s poetry editor. Always busy with new creative projects, she recently helped her Bachelor of Creative & Professional Writing students launch their own online, student-led literary and arts magazine called Arrival.
Meaghan lives in Hamilton with her family.
Hope to see y’all there!
Tyler Pennock 
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