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Indie Debut Author Panel with Aimee Wall

Flying Books 784 College St. (near Shaw), Toronto, ON, Canada

Join Martha Sharpe, owner of Flying Books, for an evening of conversation and insight into the minds of three independently published debut novelists, all of whom are shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon First Novel Award: Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane, Brian Thomas Isaac, and Conor Kerr. Thursday, June 2, 2022 6 pm ET Flying Books […]

Free

Nigredo presents Beatriz Hausner

KGB Bar 85 E. 4th St., New York City

Please join us to celebrate the new journal Nigredo. With readings by Beatriz Hausner, author of Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, Andrei Codrescu, Valery Oisteanu, Allan Graubard and Paul McRandle. Friday, June 3, 2022 7 PM The Red Room, KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. New York City, NY Copies of the first issue will be available […]

The Giller Foundation Book Club presents Aimee Wall

Zoom Webinar

The Giller Foundation presents Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane in conversation with author and 2021 jury member Megan Gail Coles as part of the The Giller Book Club. Guests will be given the opportunity to ask Aimee questions via the Q&A feature. June 6, 2022. 7 - 8 pm EST Zoom webinar. Free to […]

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Toronto Word on the Street presents Nic Brewer

Queen's Park Circle: Across the Universe

Toronto Word on the Street presents Worthy Sacrifices, featuring Nic Brewer, author of Suture, alongside Assiyah Jamilla Touré and Sydney Hegele. Moderated by Terese Mason Pierre. Read more here. Sunday, June 12, 2022 10 am - 11 am ET Across the Universe Queens Park Circle Toronto, ON  

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Toronto Word on the Street presents Shani Mootoo

Queen's Park Circle

Toronto Word on the Street presents Life's Poetic Turns with Shani Mootoo, author of Cane | Fire, Natalie Wee, and Andrew Faulkner. The intersections, reinventions, and growing pains we so often experience in life won’t keep these poets down. Sunday, June 12, 2022 4 pm - 5 pm ET Vibrant Voices of Ontario Queens Park Circle Toronto, […]

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Toronto Word on the Street presents Shannon Webb-Campbell

Queen's Park Circle

Toronto Word on the Street presents Storming the Street: Lee Maracle's Legacy with  Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar Tides and I Am a Body of Land, Cody Caetano, and Drew Hayden Taylor. Lee Maracle’s stories are bold, honest, and gentle where it counts. Lee has given generations of writers inspiration, and readers a truly incredible oeuvre. We […]

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Event Horizon presents Marianne Apostolides

Mandy's Bistro 123 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the Event Horizon: Celebrating Books Published in Spring 2020! Launch from the black hole with Marianne Apostolides, author of I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind, Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Mike Chaulk, Faye Guenther, Mathew Henderson. With host Faisal Butt. Tuesday, June 14, 2022 7 pm Et Mandy's Bistro 123 Danforth Avenue Toronto, […]

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Precipice of Words: A Book Launch at the Houndstooth with Beatriz Hausner

The Houndstooth 818 College Street, Toronto, ON

Join Beatriz Hausner and Luciano Iacobelli for an in-person launch of their new and recent books: Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner (Book*hug Press, 2020). Learn more: https://bookhugpress.ca/.../beloved-revolutionary.../ Noctograms by Luciano Iacobelli (Quattro Books, 2022) When: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 Time: 7 - 9 pm EST Where: The Houndstooth, Toronto, ON Free. All are welcome. Books […]

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Motherfigure presents Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee

Online

Motherfigure presents The Intersection of Motherhood and Creativity Virtual Panel Discussion with co-editors Stacey May Fowles (@missstaceymay) and Jen Sookfong Lee (@jenleefur) from the new essay collection, Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood (@bookhug_press), in a free, virtual panel discussion event. In celebration of this fundamental conversation and the Motherfigure community, all […]

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Launch for Remnants by Celine Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen

De Stiil Books 351 Avenue Duluth E, Montréal

Book*hug Press, in partnership with De Stiil Books, invites you to celebrate the launch of Celine Huyghebaert's Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel, Remnants, translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen. Join us in person or virtually via a live stream. All are welcome. People attending in person are asked to please consider wearing a mask. […]

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