Freedom to Read

Paola Ferrante

7:30pm

Thursday, September 28, 2023

15 mins

In support of a world free of censorship and book banning TIFA is showcasing the Sanctuary collection of the Toronto Public Library Sanctuary Collection of banned and challenged books.

Authors talk about a particular banned or challenged book that has been important to them and why we must always protect the freedom to read.

This reading will feature Paola Ferrante.

Free

Reading

How to attend

This FREE event is open to the public.

In support of a world free of censorship and book banning TIFA is showcasing the Sanctuary collection of the Toronto Public Library Sanctuary Collection of banned and challenged books.

Authors talk about a particular banned or challenged book that has been important to them and why we must always protect the freedom to read.

This reading will feature Paola Ferrante.

Free

Reading

Featured Authors

Paola Ferrante

Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She has won Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine’s Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize for the story “When Foxes Die Electric.” Her work appears in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century (2022), Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (2021), North American Review, PRISM International and elsewhere. She was born, and still resides in, Toronto.