{"id":3122,"date":"2025-11-26T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:56:50","slug":"breakfast-meeting-march-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-march-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting March 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>HUGH A.D. SPENCER<\/div>\n
Writer of Fantastic Fiction<\/div>\n
416. 938.3803<\/div>\n
spencer.hugh@gmail.com<\/div>\n

Hugh Spencer\u2019s short fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Descant, <\/span>Interzone, On Spec and the Tesseracts series. Most of which have been reprinted in Why I Hunt Flying
\nSaucers and The Progressive Apparatus from Brain Lag Publishing. His novel Extreme Dentistry, also from Brain Lag, was released in 2014. Hugh has also adapted much of his work into<\/span> audio dramas
\nwhich have been performed by Shoestring Radio Theatre for NPR’s Satellite Network. He\u2019s been twice nominated for the Canadian Aurora Award, and his story \u201c(Coping with) Norm Deviation\u201d received an honorable mention in The Year\u2019s Best Science Fiction (2007). In <\/span>May 2019, Hugh\u2019s play \u201cThe Triage Conference\u201c was performed at the Scripted Toronto Theatre Festival; and his second novel The Hard Side of the Moon, was released in hardback in 2021. A collection of his radio dramas, The Fabulist <\/span>Play Cycle was launched in 2024.<\/p>\n

Hugh is founder and president of the Museum Planners Group and he has been consulting in the cultural field for over 30 years. In this capacity, Hugh was co-curator of the National Library of Canada\u2019s exhibition on Canadian science fiction and fantasy, he also served as Chair of the Friends of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation for the Toronto Public Library system, President of SF Canada (the association of professional fantasy and science fiction writers) and acted as programming advisor for Allarcom Pay-Television\u2019s CRTC application for a specialty science fiction channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HUGH A.D. SPENCER Writer of Fantastic Fiction 416. 938.3803 spencer.hugh@gmail.com Hugh Spencer\u2019s short fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Descant, Interzone, On Spec and the Tesseracts series. Most of which have been reprinted in Why I Hunt Flying Saucers and The Progressive Apparatus from Brain Lag Publishing. His novel Extreme Dentistry, … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting March 21, 2026<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2026"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-Om","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}