Spring Forward online poetry reading, March 22, 7 p.m. Join Andrea Thompson, Brenda Clews, Allan Weiss, John Oughton and myself for an evening of poetry to welcome the spring. This event is funded by The League of Canadian Poets. Register ..read more

A Poetry Reading for International Women’s Day Listen to poets Clara Blackwood, Brenda Clews, Archna Sahni and myself read and discuss our work with host extraordinaire Michael Anthony Ingram. Listen ..read more

Painter Poets 2022 Painter Poets is an online reading on Wednesday, November 23 from 7 – 9 pm. Register via Eventbrite. Painter Poets features Jennifer Hosein reading poems with her paintings, Allan Briesmaster, who will read poetry while showing a slideshow of Holly Briesmaster’s paintings, Brenda Clews reading poems on her late brother’s, Raymond Clews’, paintings, Carole Giangrande, who will show her fabulous bird photographs and read poems, and Ellen Chang Richardson, who writes startling and insightful poetry about contemporary art. This event is supported ..read more

Brockton Writers Series 14.09.22: Jennifer Hosein’s blog post HEART      As a writer and visual artist, my work tends to overlap. In difficult times, I lean into one or the other, or both, for sustenance. Therefore, when my mother’s aortic valve needed replacing, I began to write frantically about our time together.      After her passing, I did not know how to survive, so I painted. Madly. I painted my mother from old black-and-white photos and found her in the hours that I spent looking into her face. I am still painting her, nine years later, still privile ..read more

100,000 Poets for Change Toronto event, September 17, 2022 100,000 Poets for Change is happening on Saturday, September 17th at Hirut Cafe. Dinner is at 7 and readings start at 8.  This is a benefit for Shannen’s Dream. Readers are Robert Priest, Jennifer Hosein, Charles C. Smith, Brenda Clews, Jeannine Pitas, Georgia Wilder.         ..read more

Brockton Writers Series – Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. As we adapt with current pandemic regulations, we’re happy to announce our event will be hosted in-person at the Glad Day Bookshop, located at 499 Church St., Toronto, starting in September! We will also live stream the event on the Brockton Writers Series YouTube channel! Guest Speaker: Kathy Friedman on “Writing & Survival: Some Tips for Mad, Sad, and Neurodiverse Folks” Readers: Oubah Osman Jennifer Hosein Kimia Eslah Farzana Doctor The reading is PWYC (suggested $3-$5) and features a Q&A with the writers afterwar ..read more

Poetry from the Paddock with Hollay Ghadery Hollay Ghadery reads “Widow” by Jennifer Hosein in the paddock with her wee friends ..read more

Genealogies reading, July 13, 2022 A magical evening! Allan Weiss and I were joined by guest readers Ivy Reiss, John Oughton, Janice Colman, Norman Allan and Paul Edward Costa, with cameos by Tonya Liburd and Olga Stein. The readers were fabulous! I didn’t want it to end. And of course there were paintings to go with my poems and stories. (Click to see the recording ..read more

Genealogies Please join Allan Weiss and Jennifer Hosein for a free online reading, Genealogies, on Wednesday, July 13th at 7 p.m. Registration is required. The event is funded by The Writers’ Union of Canada. Allan Weiss is a Toronto fiction writer and Professor of English and Humanities at York University. He the author of three story cycles: Living Room (2001), Making the Rounds (2016), and most recently Telescope (2019). Other short stories, both realist and fantastic, have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Wascana Review, On Spec, and the Tesseracts anthology seri ..read more

Painter Poets 2022 Painter Poets is an online reading on Wednesday, November 23 from 7 – 9 pm. Register via Eventbrite. Painter Poets features Jennifer Hosein reading poems with her paintings, Allan Briesmaster, who will read poetry while showing a slideshow of Holly Briesmaster’s paintings, Brenda Clews reading poems on her late brother’s, Raymond Clews’, paintings, Carole Giangrande, who will show her fabulous bird photographs and read poems, and Ellen Chang Richardson, who writes startling and insightful poetry about contemporary art. This event is supported ..read more