Fiction at the Phoenix returns on Thursday, July 25th with Tomas Hachard and Zalika Reid-Benta!

Tomas Hachard is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, City in Flames. His short fiction has appeared in The Walrus and he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch in 2023. His essays and criticism have been published in The Atlantic, the Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Slate, NPR, Hazlitt and the Literary Review of Canada, among others. He lives in Toronto with his family.

Zalika Reid-Benta's debut novel River Mumma was shortlisted for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and has received starred reviews from publications such as Publishers Weekly and Booklist Magazine. River Mumma is an Amazon Books Editors' Pick for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and was the October 2023 pick for the CityLine book club.

Reid-Benta's debut short story collection Frying Plantain won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction in 2020. Frying Plantain was shortlisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Award, the 2020 Trillium  Book Award, the 2021 White Pine Award and the 2020 Evergreen Award.

Her picture book, Twelve Days of Jamaican Christmas, will be published in 2025.

Doors open at 7:30 PM, with readings starting at 7:45.

Entry is cash only, by donation at the door!

RSVP to reserve a spot at hello@westendphoenix.com