Join us for this event celebrating the launch of the latest issue of Headlight! There will be readings by several contributors: Kate Brooks, Louise Carson, Alana Dunlop, Dru Gary, Kat Mulligan, and Ariella Ruby, as well as copies of the new issue available for purchase!

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Kate Brooks

Kate Brooks is a writer based out of Toronto. Her work, which uses experimental narration to engage with the ubiquitous through the scope of the personal, has been longlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest, twice for the CBC Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season Award and Metatron Press’ Prize for Rising Authors. Her writing has been published with WHOIS journal, Probably Poetry Collective, and Headlight Anthology, among others, and her prose chapbook Ficus was digitally published through Metatron Press. She is currently writing her first novel through the support of the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils. 

Louise Carson

Louise Carson lives in a bungalow surrounded by gardens. She paid for it by teaching music. Now she just writes. Her poetry collections are The Truck Driver Treated for Shock, haiku, Yarrow Press, 2024; Dog Poems, Aeolus House, 2020; and A Clearing, Signature Editions, 2015. Her work has been selected for Best Canadian Poetry in 2014, 2021 and 2024. She also writes historical fiction and mysteries and her two latest in those genres are Third Circle, land/sea press, 2022 and The Cat Crosses a Line, Signature Editions, 2024. 

Alana Dunlop

Alana Dunlop's work has been published or is forthcoming in Room, THIS Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, and Yolk Literary, among others. in 2023 she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to write a short story collection exploring queer subcultures in Montreal. She is starting her MA in Creative Writing & English Literature at Concordia University this fall. Find her at https://www.alanadunlop.online/

Kat Mulligan

Kat Mulligan is a Virginia-born writer. She currently serves as the managing editor for Soliloquies Anthology. 

Dru Gary

Dru Gary is a poet currently based in Montreal. Her work is often autofictional and aims to meld the real with the imaginary.

Ariella Ruby

Ariella Ruby is a law student at McGill who just finished up her 2-year fiction MA at Concordia University. Her thesis, Juvenalia, a SSHRC-funded collection of short stories, explores the coming-of-age experience of young women in the postmodern era, in a darkly comedic, surrealist style.