Guelph authors Adam Lindsay Honsinger and Kasia Jaronczyk are launching their new novels on Saturday March 1, 7:00 PM, at the ANAF (32 Gordon St, Guelph). They'll be joined by guest authors Tea Gerbeza, Hollay Ghadery, and MA|DE. RSVP here.

Adam Lindsay Honsinger is a writer, musician, and illustrator. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. His debut novel Gracelessland (Enfield & Wizenty) was published in 2015. His collection of short fiction, Somewhere North of Normal (Enfield & Wizenty) was published in 2018. His stories has been been published in literary journals such as Descant, Prism International, and Exile Quarterly, two of which were nominated for The Journey Prize Anthology, and one was awarded a Silver at the National Magazine Awards. His new novel, Giving Up the Ghost (The Porcupine's Quill), maps the internal and external trajectories of a family navigating the grief of losing a son / grandson / brother, a loss that has sent them spiralling into their own separate orbits.

Kasia Jaronczyk is a Polish-Canadian writer, artist and microbiologist. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 14. Her debut short story collection Lemons was published in 2017 by Mansfield Press. She is a co-editor of the only anthology of Polish-Canadian short stories Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction (Guernica Editions, 2017). Her stories were short-listed for the Bristol Prize 2016 and long-listed for CBC Short Story Prize 2010. She has published in Canadian literary magazines such as TNQ, Room, Prairie Journal, Carousel, The Nashwaak Review, Postscripts to Darkness, and in anthologies Wherever I Find Myself. Essays by Canadian Immigrant Women (Miriam Matejova, Ed. Caitlin Press, April 2017) and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology (2016. Vol 9.). Her new novel, Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press), is the story of two women and their families who hijack a Polish passenger plane flying from Wrocław to Warsaw in a bold attempt to escape Martial Law in Communist Poland and find safety in West Berlin.

Tea Gerbeza is a queer disabled neurodivergent writer and multimedia artist. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Regina. She is the winner of the Ex-Puritan’s 2022 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for poetry, and has published widely in magazines including ARC magazine, Action Spectacle, The Poetry Foundation, Wordgathering, and Contemporary Verse 2. Her first book, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press), re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza’s grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation.

Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024, is a collection of very short fiction that deftly explores the subjugation of women through the often subversive act of fantasizing.

MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, a unity of two voices fused into a single, poetic third. It is the name given to the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace — artists whose active solo practices, while differing radically, serve to complement one another. MA|DE's writing has appeared in literary journals including The Ex-Puritan, Augur, and PRISM International, and 4 chapbooks, including the bpNichol Award-shortlisted A Trip to the ZZOO from Collusion Books. MA|DE's debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO (Palimpsest Press), is a wild-blooded collection that turns conventional exhibitionism on its head, treating humans and animals as equal subjects of art, science and selfhood. ZZOO is a bestiary for the modern world.