Join speculative fiction author, poet, and editor Avi Silver & novelist, games writer, and speaker Brandon Crilly in conversation on found family in fiction. This event will be happening at Bakka-Phoenix Books, North America's oldest fantasy and science fiction bookstore, near Spadina subway station.

About **Avi Silver**:
Avi Silver is a speculative author, poet, editor, and co-founder of The Shale Project. *One Morning Sun*, the finale of their Sãoni Cycle trilogy (*Two Dark Moons*, 2019 ; *Three Seeking Stars*, 2021) released in September 2025. They are also author of the 2023 Aurora Award-nominated novella, *Pluralities*. Their poetry has been published in *Strange Horizons* and *Uncanny Magazine*, and received an honorable mention in the 2022 Rhysling Awards. Find their short fiction in *Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology* and *Nothing Without Us Too*.

About **Brandon Crilly**:
Brandon Crilly is a Canadian novelist, games writer, and speaker specializing in weird worlds with doses of cli-fi, characters on the sidelines and outside-the-box adventures. His debut novel *Catalyst* won an IPPY Award for Fantasy in 2023; *Castoff* is his second novel, completing the Aspects of Aelda duology in 2025. He has more than 50 published short works to date and has contributed games writing to award-winning IP lines like *The Expanse RPG*, *Shadowrun*, Tales of the Valiant and TinyD6.

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