The Writers Room cohort of 2026 launches their book, The Shards of the Mirror Tree. Features Anais Constantine, Adebola Salami, Layla Ahmed and Lennex Maley.
From the program that created the Ocean’s Barwaaqo, the Shattered Garden, Echoes of Humanity and In the Shadow of the Mountain...
An evening of readings, reflections and signings, as the 2026 Writers Room cohort launches their book The Shards of the Mirror Tree. Features Anais Constantine, Adebola Salami, Layla Ahmed and Lennex Maley.
About the Book:
Once, there was one world. One tree. One truth. Then came the Shattering. A wound in reality so deep that even time forgot how to heal. What had been whole splintered into Shards, each clinging to its own version of history, faith and memory. In these fragments, a soldier wakes in their tomb, priests play gods, mages cross deserts of glass and fire-born kingdoms crumble into ash. As fissures widen and realities begin to overlap, the boundaries between the living and the dead, memory and magic, crumble. What remains are echoes: of fire, of faith, of grief and of the small defiant hope that what is broken can still remember how to be whole. The Shards of the Mirror Tree is a story of civilizations trapped in parallel ruins, searching for the truth they all forgot and the courage to rebuild it together before the last Shard falls.
The first Hamilton Public Library building opened on September 16, 1890 by the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen on the north side of Main Street West. In 1913, a new main library opened. This building was replaced in 1980 by Central Library, at the current location on York Boulevard.
In 2010, Central Library re-opened after approximately 18 months of renovations. Central Library opened with a newly revitalized first floor, which includes a Community Living Room that takes advantage of natural light. The Ontario Library Association honoured Central in 2012 with an Architectural and Design Transformation award.
