Write the Neighbourhood

Jake Byrne, Camille Hernández-Ramdwar and Kate Siklosi

8:30pm

Wednesday, September 27

60 mins

TIFA is proud to present a new collection of writing penned by local Toronto authors featured recently in Toronto Lit Up, a joint book launch initiative with the Toronto Arts Council. Authors were invited to write about the neighbourhood they each call home (literally or figuratively).

Each Write the Neighbourhood event will spotlight a selection of authors taking you on a tour around the city via the most reliable form of transportation Toronto has to offer — the written word! Whether it’s a short story or essay, poem or illustration, each author is sure to show you what they love about the city they call home.

At this event:

Jake Byrne
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
Kate Siklosi

Free

Reading

How to attend

FREE

This FREE event requires registration. Pass Holders should register for free events as well.

At this event:

Jake Byrne
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
Kate Siklosi

Toronto International Festival of Authors logo - Festival Dates: September 21 to October 1, 2023

Free

Reading

Featured Authors

Jake Byrne

Jake Byrne is a poet and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Their work has been published in journals and anthologies in North America. Their poem “Parallel Volumes” won CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize for 2019, and their first two books of poetry are forthcoming in 2023 with Wolsak & Wynn and in 2024 with Brick Books, respectively. Find them @jakebyrnewrites.

Read more about Jake Byrne

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is an author, scholar, and independent consultant. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugar was published by Rare Machines/Dundurn Press in 2023. Her earlier work appeared in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction; Mercury Retrograde; and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada. Camille is Associate Professor Emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University where for over twenty years she engaged in teaching, writing, research and activism concerning anti-racism and Caribbean Studies in Canada. She divides her time between Toronto and Trinidad.

Kate Siklosi

Kate Siklosi is a poet, scholar, publisher and teacher who lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory/Toronto, Canada. Her work includes leavings (Timglaset 2021), which sold into its second printing, and six chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has been featured across North America, Europe and the UK. She is also Sessional Faculty at McMaster University, curator of the Small Press Map of Canada and co-founding editor of the feminist experimental small press Gap Riot Press. Selvage is her latest work, published by Invisible Publishing (2023).