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ALT Black and white image of Sofia Mostaghimi in a circle on the right against a dark blue background. In light pink font: Balderdash Reading Series Sofia Mostaghimi Her debut novel Desperada is out with Random House Canada. Her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Ex-Puritan, Joyland, Hart House Review, Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, and After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century
ALT Colour image of Banoo Zan in a circle on the right against a darkblue background. In offwhite font: Balderdash Reading Series Banoo ZAN Author of Songs of Exile and Letters to My Father, she is the founder of Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night), Canada's most diverse poetry reading and open mic series (est. 2012).
ALT Colour image of Sumaiya Matin in a circle on the right against a light pink background. In dark blue font: Balderdash Reading Series Sumaiya Matin, Author of a literary memoir, The Shaytan Bride (Dundurn Press, 2021), that speaks to themes such as migration, identity, mental health, and gender-based violence.
ALT Black and white image of Kate Cayley in a circle on the right against an offwhite background. In dark blue font: Balderdash Reading Series Kate Cayley, Author of multiple books, she has won the Trillium Book Award, an O Henry Prize, and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and been a finalist for the Governer General's Award for Fiction.
ALT Lime green background, colour image of Shalaka Jadhav in a circle on the right, in dark blue font: Balderdash Reading Series Shalaka Jadhav They are an Emerging Curator as part of the inaugural University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery Visiting Curator Program, a member of the Relationships, Reciprocity, Exchange Collective at OCAD U, and co-leads hyperlocal curatorial prokects at Textile Magazine based in Waterloo Region. Follow @shalaks_j on Instagram.
