Junction Reads April 18 at TYPE

In person season launch with Lavanya Lakshmi, Robin Blackburn McBride and Nancy Jo Cullen.

Event starts at 6:30pm ET. Register for access to the livestream. No need to register if you're coming in person. Please ensure your name matches when you knock to enter. Unknown entities will not be let in the event.

PWYC. All proceeds support the authors this season.

Nancy Jo Cullen’s poetry and fiction have appeared in several Canadian literary journals and anthologies, including Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize. She is the 2010 recipient for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge, was short-listed for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Dish is her second novel (Wolsak & Wynn). Nancy Jo Cullen has published a collection of short stories, Canary, with Biblioasis and four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Nothing Will Save Your Life, was published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2022.

Robin Blackburn McBride is a novelist, poet, teacher, and coach. River of Dreams is her fourth book. Robin’s first full-length work of fiction, The Shining Fragments, and a volume of her poetry, In Green, were both published by Guernica Editions. Robin is the author of a self-help book, Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity. Her short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of North American literary magazines. Robin lives with her husband, Hugh, and their black cat, Poe, in Gatineau, Québec.

Lavanya Lakshmi was born in New Delhi, India and grew up in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong before coming to the US for her undergrad and master’s degrees. She lived in New York for nine years before moving to Toronto, which she currently calls home. Lavanya has worked in the publishing industry for thirteen years and is on the board of directors for the Festival of Literary Diversity. Her novel, LEAVE AND COME BACK, was named an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Romance, An Indigo’s Best 100 Books of the Year So Far, and was the June 2026 pick for Lilly Singh’s Lilly’s Library Book Club. Leave and Come Back is her first novel. Prior to this, she has written for such prestigious spaces as the fifteen half-used notebooks in her desk drawer, over a hundred separate notes on her iPhone, and briefly during when she was four, on the walls of her house.