Common Readings, the Februrary Edition, presents Jess Taylor (Just Pervs) and Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real). Also reading: Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Tree Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher, co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography. Also reading: Mark Treddinick.

Pivot Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher, author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography. DETAILS: Pivot Episode Ten Featuring  Erin Brubacher, Andre Babyn, Barnier & Cok @ Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue, fully accessible) 7:30 doors, 8:00 readings PWYC for artist expenses

Someday Books presents Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real) and Book*hug's Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You, Anvil Press.) Hosted by Gregory Betts.

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. "A Poetry Reading in Translation” celebrates the important role translation plays in creating global networks for political and social solidarity and change, with an array of acclaimed translator-poets reading works in English translation

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Details to come.

McNally Robinson Saskatoon presents An Evening with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species.

Growing Room Festival presents Louder Now: Voice in Writing, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Emma Healey, Maneo Mohale, Eve Joseph, and Nisa Malli. Moderated by Hannah McGregor. Speech. Silence. Articulation. Movement. Delivery. Voice in writing comes through in so many different ways. Historically, cis men have been heralded for their use of voice in […]

Growing Room Festival presents The Struggle is Real: Writing about Mental Health, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Emma Hansen, Addie Tsai, and Rebecca Salazar. Moderator: Lucia Misch. Discussions around mental health and illnesses might have become marginally less stigmatized than before, but haven’t become any less challenging to navigate. In this […]

Growing Room Festival presents Fear in Fiction, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, Mallory Tater, Zalika Reid-Benta, Rebecca Fisseha, and Rhea Tregebov. Moderated by Doretta Lau. Five celebrated novelists and short story writers discuss how to channel fear in fiction, sharing their secrets to transforming a protagonist’s rock-bottom moments into compelling stories. By […]

Growing Room Festival presents Not Your Sidekick: Queer Characters, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of We All Need to Eat, Tanya Boteju, Tash McAdam, and Addie Tsai. Moderated by Jen Currin. Queer identities aren’t plot devices for straight folks’ character development. Queer folks are  protagonists of their own individual stories, and they circumnavigate queer narrative […]

Growing Room presents Transmuting Trauma, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Maneo Mohale, Addie Tsai, Corinne Manning. Moderator: Mercedes Eng. There is no linear nature to healing. Our journeys carry us back to our homelands, into the depths of personal legend, and even beyond, into the farthest imagined expanses of our own […]

Growing Room presents The Limit Does Not Exist: Boundless Forms, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of Vancouver for Beginners, Aisha Sasha John, Aimee Louw, and Carleigh Baker. Moderator: Phay Moores. Memoir in verse, autofiction, kinetic sculpture, lyric essays, performance poetry, music installations. Hybrid forms twist and shape traditional forms of storytelling in startling and revelatory […]

The Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.

An evening with Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real), and Book*hug Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press).

The Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.

Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Helen Humphries: A Reading and Discussion in Conversation with Sina Queyras.

Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor, author of Just Pervs. Also reading: Nur Abdi, JR McConvey and Hannah Brown. PWYC, with a $5 suggestion.