Morrin Centre presents

Imagination 2026 — Short Stories Panel

In-person Event

April 25th 2026

11:00 am – 12:30 pm / Doors: 10:30 am

Morrin Centre
44, chaussée des Écossais, Vieux-Québec, Québec, QC, Canada

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Learn more about the short stories format with authors Kirti Bhadresa (An Astonishment of Stars) and Leila Marshy (My Thievery of the People) in this moderated panel!

Moderator: Gabriela Flor

This event is presented thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers’ Union of Canada.

This event is included in the Festival Pass.

Refunds: No refunds
Exchanges: No exchanges

Learn more about the short stories format with authors Kirti Bhadresa (An Astonishment of Stars) and Leila Marshy (My Thievery of the People) in this moderated panel!

Moderator: Gabriela Flor

This event is presented thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers’ Union of Canada.

This event is included in the Festival Pass.

Refunds: No refunds
Exchanges: No exchanges

The Morrin Centre has no parking space. You will find metered parking in the surrounding streets and three underground parkings within a few minutes walk. Visit our website to learn more about parking options.

info@morrin.org

www.morrin.org/imagination

Kirti Bhadresa

Kirti Bhadresa lives in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. Kirti has fiction and non-fiction writing in many publications including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Room Magazine. Her first book, a short story collection entitled An Astonishment of Stars, was published in October 2024 by ECW Press. The book was on the CBC Most Anticipated list and went on to become an indie bestseller. It was a 2025 Writers’ Guild of Alberta Fiction Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Kirti's writing engages with themes of visibility, belonging, and love, with protagonists who are quietly determined but rarely nostalgic.

Leila Marshy

Leila Marshy is the author of The Philistine (LLP, 2018) and My Thievery of the People (Baraka Books, 2025), and is editor of the anthology Raqzing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada (Baraka Books, 2025). Daughter of a Palestinian refugee, Leila lived in Cairo during the First Intifada and worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Mental Health Association. She has been a community and political organizer, and notably founded a dialogue group with the Hasidic community in her local neighbourhood, helping elect the first Hasidic woman to public office in the world. Leila is editor at Baraka Books and lives in Montreal.