Inaugural Reading: Tea Mutonji (WiR) & Gray Brogden (SWiR)
Room: Conron Hall 3110
About Téa Mutonji
Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer based in Toronto. Her debut short story collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first title from Vivek Shraya’s imprint, VS. Books. It was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Téa is the recipient of the Jill Davis fellowship in Fiction at New York University, where she’s an MFA candidate.
About Gray Brogden
Fourth-year Honours Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language and Literature and SASAH student Gray Brogden is a passionate writer, poet, and performer. As president of Penned by Western, Gray is a pillar of the creative writing community at Western and in the greater London area. She has hosted many open mics, taught countless writing workshops, and competed in various poetry slams. Her work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including Symposium, Semicolon, Spotlight, Iconoclast, and SNAPS, and she was the 2023 recipient of both the Lillian Kroll Prize in Creative Writing and the Marguerite R. Dow Canadian Heritage Writing Award. When she’s not writing, Gray can be found obsessively reading, rewatching old action films, or working on jigsaw puzzles. You can find her work on Instagram @graybrogden_poems.
Refreshments and a reception to follow.
About Write Now!
This talk is part of Writing 2520A (Write Now! - Writers on Writing) offered by the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University. Writing 2520A is organized around a series of lectures by writers. Every week, a new writer visits the class to read from their work, talk about their writing and their career, and answer questions. Guest lectures are open to Western students, staff and faculty.
For more information please visit: www.uwo.ca/writing.
Everyone is welcome!
