Book Launch: A Song for Wildcats by Caitlin Galway

About the Event

Join us at Flying Books on May 20th, 2025 from 6:15 to 8:00 PM. This literary extravaganza features readings from Caitlin Galway, K.J. Aiello (The Monster and the Mirror, ECW Press 2024), Paola Ferrante (Her Body Among Animals, Book*Hug Press 2023), and Eden Boudreau (Crying Wolf, Book*Hug Press 2023). K.J. Aiello will be moderating a discussion between the authors, followed by a signing. Titles will be available for purchase.

About A Song for Wildcats

An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind.

Infatuation and violence grow between two girls in the enchanting wilderness of postwar Australia as they spin disturbing fantasies to escape their families. Two young men in the midst of the 1968 French student revolts navigate - and at times resist - the philosophical and emotional nature of love. An orphaned boy and his estranged aunt are thrown together on a quiet peninsula at the height of the Troubles in Ireland, where their deeply rooted fear attracts the attention of shape-shifting phantoms of war.

The five long-form stories in A Song for Wildcats are uncanny portraits of grief and resilience and are imbued with unique beauty, insight, and resonance from one of the country's most exciting authors.

About the Authors

Caitlin Galway (she/they) is a queer, Toronto-based author. Her forthcoming short story collection A Song for Wildcats has been featured in both The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, and her debut novel Bonavere Howl was a spring pick by The Globe and Mail. Her work has won or been nominated for numerous prizes and has appeared in Best Canadian Stories 2025, EVENT, The Ex- Puritan, House of Anansi’s The Broken Social Scene Story Project (selected by Feist), Gloria Vanderbilt’s Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology, Riddle Fence, and on CBC Books.

K.J. Aiello is a mentally ill, award-winning writer based in Toronto, ON. Their work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, The Walrus, and This Magazine. They are still waiting for their very own dragon. Sadly, this has not happened, so their cats will have to suffice.

Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has won Grain Magazine's Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize. Her work appears in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century, Best Canadian Poetry 2021, North American Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She was born, and still resides in, Toronto.

Eden Boudreau was born and raised in a small rural area just outside Halifax. In 2016, she relocated to Ontario with her family. As a bisexual, polyamorous woman who has survived her fair share of adversity, Eden's work draws on her life experiences to inspire vulnerable and relatable stories. Her essays have been featured in Flare, Today's Parent, and Runner's World, amongst others. She is the host and creator of the podcast, Dear Lonely Writer, aimed at destigmatizing mental health struggles during the writing process. Boudreau lives in Georgina, Ontario.