Celebrating the 2025 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Finalists
Event Details
Join us for a special reading and conversation with some of the shortlisted finalists for the 2025 Trillium Book Awards for Poetry, Ontario’s most prestigious
Event Details
Join us for a special reading and conversation with some of the shortlisted finalists for the 2025 Trillium Book Awards for Poetry, Ontario’s most prestigious literary prize for English and French-language poets. Featuring Jake Byrne and Matthew Walsh with H.G. Watson of Maclean’s Magazine.
Speakers for this event
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H.G. Watson
H.G. Watson
Moderator
H.G. Watson is the new platforms editor at Maclean’s. Her non-fiction work has appeared in Maclean’s, Toronto Life, The Local and many others. Her fiction work has appeared in Dark Matter and God’s Cruel Joke. Watson recently graduated from the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. She’s currently working on a non-fiction book about the teen girl mags of the 1990s and 2000s.
Moderator
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Jake Byrne
Jake Byrne
Jake Byrne is the author of Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) and DADDY (Brick Books, 2024). In 2019, they won CV2‘s Foster Prize for poetry. They live in Toronto/tka:ronto.
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Matthew Walsh
Matthew Walsh
Matthew Walsh (MW) is a poet and doodler from Nova Scotia, whose two poetry books were finalists for the Trillium Award for Poetry in 2019 and 2025. Their work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Plenitude Magazine, and their short stories have appeared in Sad Mag and Joyland. Their titles include These are not the potatoes of my youth and Terrarium.
Books
Daddy
AuthorJake Byrne
PublisherBrick Books
Terrarium
AuthorMatthew Walsh
PublisherGoose Lane Editions
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