Writers in Residence Authors Showcase
Tue, Feb 27
|TAP Centre for Creativity
Join Téa Mutonji and Gray Brogden for a showcase of excellent local writers! Presented in partnership with Antler River Poetry and Western University’s Department of English & Writing Studies. Experience the range of our region’s literary talent in a night of community, stories, and poetry!
Time & Location
Feb 27, 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
TAP Centre for Creativity, 203 Dundas St, London, ON N6A 1G4, Canada
About The Event
Join Téa Mutonji and Gray Brogden for a showcase of excellent local writers, including Katherine Barbour, Chantelle Cressman, Claudia Kindrachuk, Antoinette Okai Koi, Jillian Nash, Niloofar Rezaee, and Darija Silic! Presented in partnership with Antler River Poetry and Western University’s Department of English & Writing Studies. Experience the range of our region’s literary talent in a night of community, stories, and poetry.
Tuesday February 27th at 6:00pm
TAP Centre for Creativity
203 Dundas St, London, Ontario
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji’s work focuses primarily on friendship, womanhood, race and sexuality. Her essay, “The Price of Being Pretty,” was nominated for a digital publishing award in the category of best essays. Her short stories “Property of Neil” and “The photographer’s Wife” were awarded the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize (2023). She holds a degree in Media Studies and minors in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first title from Vivek Shraya imprint, VS. Books. It was featured on several end-of-the-year lists, including The Globe 100: Books that shaped (2019), The Walrus Best Books (2019) and the Quill & Quire Books of The Year (2019) to name a few. Shut up You’re Pretty was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020); it is also a shortlisted book for Canada Reads 2024. Téa is the nonfiction editor of Feel Ways: An anthology of Scarborough Writing, published by Mawenzi House in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2021 Jill Davis Fellowship in Fiction at NYU and is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Western University.
Fourth-year Honours Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language and Literature and SASAH student Gray Brogden is a passionate writer, poet, and performer. As president of Penned by Western, Gray is a pillar of the creative writing community at Western and in the greater London area. She has hosted many open mics, taught countless writing workshops, and competed in various poetry slams. Her work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including Symposium, Semicolon, Spotlight, Iconoclast, and SNAPS, and she was the 2023 recipient of both the Lillian Kroll Prize in Creative Writing and the Marguerite R. Dow Canadian Heritage Writing Award. When she’s not writing, Gray can be found obsessively reading, rewatching old action films, or working on jigsaw puzzles. You can find her work on Instagram @graybrogden_poems.