events &

Upcoming:

Participant, Banff Centre Summer Writers 2025 with Catriona Strang, Douglas Kearney, and Eric Sneathen / (August 17-30, 2025) 

Participant, Brooklyn Poets Teacher Training with facilitator & mentor Jay Deshpande / 5 weeks August–September 2025

Past:

Reader at CV2 Spring Launch Virtual Reading 2024 // Online / May 1st, 2024

Instructor/facilitator for Introduction to Creative Writing course at Sheridan College’s Continuing and Professional Studies (online) / September–December 2023 

Mentee in poetry mentorship with poet Kyle Carrero Lopez / July 2023–January 2024 

Participant in Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat 2023 / July 11th-21st, 2023 

Reader at Humber Literary Review Summer 2023 Issue Launch Party // The Piston, 7pm, Toronto / June 21st, 2023

Reader at Ephemera Reading Series // Virtual / See full reading HERE / April 19th, 2023

Participant, In Surreal Life, created and facilitated by Shira Erlichman, visiting poets Kaveh Akbar, Sarah Kay, & Adam Falkner / October 1st-31st 2020

Facilitator of poetry workshops for and by writers with lived experience of mental illness @ InkWell Workshops. Find more info, free online workshop materials, & future workshop dates at inkwellworkshops.com. / June 17th, June 10th, May 13th, April 13th, March 4th, 2020 

Reader at Emerging Writers Reading Series @ Glad Day Bookshop with Tamara Jong, Michael Russell, Carly Vandergriendt, and Maša Torbica / October 14th, 2019

Alumni reader at Speakeasy Reading Series with Jacqueline Valencia and Kai Taddei // Wise Bar, 7pm, Toronto / March 25th, 2019

Poet Mentor, "In My Mother Tongue | poetry & portraits" at Koffler Arts Centre, Toronto / March to May, 2018

Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator at Parkdale Project Read, Toronto / November 2017 to March 2018

Reader at Moez Surani’s collective reading to protest the 2017 Presidential Inauguration in the US // KnifeForkBook, 8pm, Toronto / January 20th 2017

Speakeasy Reading Series 2nd-year reader with Jowita Bydlowska and Shane Neilson // The Steady Cafe & Bar, Toronto / March 2017

Feature reader at Slackline Reading Series with Inspiritus Press and AJ Stainsby // Burdock on Bloor, Toronto / March 2017

Speakeasy Reading Series 1st-year reader with Jean-Marc Ah-Sen, Hillary Rexe, and Andy McGuire // The Steady Cafe & Bar, Toronto / November 2015