Winter Dreams of Spring: Mon. April 4, 7:30-9:00 pm. Join for the last Mount Saint Vincent University (formerly) MacDonald Room Reading in the 12-year series brings together settler and Indigenous, […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Transcendent Poetry, featuring Shani Mootoo, author of Cane | Fire, Tolu Oloruntoba, and Jason Purcell - three poets whose collections are just in time for National […]

Join us for a double book launch to celebrate new releases from Shani Mootoo (Cane | Fire) and Shannon Webb-Campbell (Lunar Tides). Featuring readings and an interview moderated by special […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Incite: Creativity and Motherhood. Join author and co-editor Jen Sookfong Lee, along with co-editor Stacey May Fowles and contributors Jónína Kirton and Kellee Ngan from Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity in an […]

Berkeley University's Department of French presents Anglo-Quebec writer, Gail Scott. Scott will give a reading from her new book of essays, Permanent Revolution. Gail Scott was very active in the Quebec […]

Frye Festival presents Asserting Purpose with Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane, and Zoe Whittall in conversation with host Christine McLean. Breathing life into the complexities of womanhood. April 24, 2022 […]

Frye Festival presents Feminism and Fiction with Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane, and Clémentine Beauvais in conversation with host, Sonya Malaborza. What space can there be for sexual and reproductive […]

Literature at its most virtuosic: readings by our guest authors, enhanced by musical improvisations and mesmerizing projections. With Therese Estacion, author of Phantompains, along with Mo Bolduc, Rébecca Déraspe,  Kaie Kellough, Djennie Laguerre & Rebecca Salazar […]

Frye Festival presents Language as a Compass with Therese Estacion, author of Phantompains, and Kaie Kellough. Host: Andrea Beverley. in conversation about navigating boundaries, charting time, and building space. May 1, […]

HAPPENING Multicultural Poetry Nights celebrate poets who, among other things, identify as newcomers, refugees, or immigrants. Tonight featuring: Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord, along with Lillian Allen,  Irene Marques, […]