Reading TO: Nancy Lam, Sam Shelstad & Dan K. Woo

Nancy Lam, Dan K. Woo and Sam Shelstad

Reading TO: Nancy Lam, Sam Shelstad & Dan K. Woo

Nancy Lam, Dan K. Woo and Sam Shelstad

4:30pm

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Stage in the Park, October 2 at 4:30pm ET.

Meet some of this year’s most exciting Toronto-based authors during this free outdoor event, which will include short readings of works that reflect the many facets of Toronto.

This reading will feature Nancy Lam, Sam Shelstad and Dan K. Woo.

This is a free outdoor event.

Outdoor Event

Stage in the Park, October 2 at 4:30pm ET.

Meet some of this year’s most exciting Toronto-based authors during this free outdoor event, which will include short readings of works that reflect the many facets of Toronto.

This reading will feature Nancy Lam, Sam Shelstad and Dan K. Woo.

This is a free outdoor event.

Outdoor Event

Featured Authors

Nancy Lam is a Toronto author. As a child and teenager, she lost herself in stories by Canadian writers, in university she majored in Canadian History to earn a Bachelor of Arts before acquiring her law degree. As an immigration lawyer she now helps prospective Canadians write and present their life stories to government officials. Her first novel, The Loyal Daughter (At Bay Press, Fall 2022) is based on her mother’s immigration story to Canada.

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Dan K. Woo's family came to Canada in the 1970s. His grandfather was a fire captain and the first firefighter to die on duty in British Hong Kong, partly a result of the British colonial system. In 2018, Woo won the Ken Klonsky Award for Learning How to Love China (Quattro Books). His writing has appeared in such publications as the South China Morning Post, Quill & Quire and China Daily USA. A Toronto native, he lives with his partner in the city and writes in his free time. He is currently studying at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and SANS Institute.

Read more about Dan K. Woo

Sam Shelstad is the author of the story collection Cop House, the novel Citizens of Light and the forthcoming novel The Cobra and the Key. Citizens of Light won the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime First Novel. Shelstad lives in Toronto.

Read more about Sam Shelstad

4:30pm

Sunday, October 2

What to read

The Loyal Daughter by , Citizens of Light by ,
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