Events | Book*hug Press - Part 16

Eden Mills Writers Festival In Your Own Backyard presents Shani Mootoo

Eden Mills Writers Festival In Your Own Backyard presents Looking Backward, Looking Forward, a panel with Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex. Also with Souvankham Thammavongsa and John Elizabeth Stinzi. Moderated by Farzana Doctor. Navigating the present with one foot in the past, these three new works of fiction explore the dizzying and transformative effect […]

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McNally Jackson presents Joni Murphy

via Zoom

Join Joni Murphy in conversation with Eugene Lim for a virtual discussion of her latest novel, Talking Animals, an all-animal allegory of art and friendship in the shadow of capitalism.

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Winterset in Summer Literary Festival presents Shannon Webb-Campbell

online

Winterset in Summer Literary Festival presents a virtual reading and Q&A with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of I am a Body of Land, and the forthcoming collection, Lunar Tides. With Noreen Golfman, Provost of Memorial University and Chair of Winterset. More details, including exact time, TBA.

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Women and Children Bookstore present Kristen Renee Miller

via Crowdcast

Please join Women and Children Bookstore for the VIRTUAL book launch of Kristen Renee Miller's debut translation, Spawn, by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill. Joining Miller for this reading focused on poetry in translation are Anne O. Fisher, Derek Mong, and Hai-Dang Phan. Please note: this event will take place via Crowdcast. Attendees will be […]

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Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival presents Ecology of Being, with Duo Concerte and poetry by Shannon Webb-Campbell

online

Ecology of Being with Duo Concertante Over three nights, Nancy Dahn and Timothy Steeves present their ambitious new program, Ecology of Being: five new works for piano and violin, with poetry by Shannon Webb-Campbell (author of I am a Body of Land and Lunar  Tides, forthcoming), that reflect on our connection and interconnections to this […]

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival presents Bahar Orang

via Zoom

EMWF In Your Own Backyard: Online Series presents Memoirs and Meditations, a panel with Bahar Orang, author of Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty. Also with Madhur Anand and Billy-Ray Belcourt. Hosted by Laurie D. Graham. Truth. Intimacy. Beauty. Queerness. Memory. Trauma. Body. Science. Poetry. Join Madhur Anand, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Bahar Orang as […]

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Draft Reading Series presents Therese Estacion

via Zoom

Draft 15.7 Writers read from their literary works-in-progress. Readings by: Therese Estacion, author of Phantompains (forthcoming from Book*hug in Spring 2021) Maheen Hyder Bänoo Zan Aaron Schneider Eufemia Fantetti Anuja Varghese Sonja Boon Rita Shelton Deverell Ellen. S. Jaffe Wanda Taylor Host: Gloria Blizzard RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/draft-157-tickets-115510435823 PWYC (no one turned away for lack of […]

Authenticity Was A Feeling: A conversation between Jacob Wren and Claudia La Rocco

Online at Tanz im August

Authenticity Was A Feeling: An online conversation between Jacob Wren and Claudia La Rocco 8:30 Berlin Time Canadian artist Jacob Wren wrote a book in 2018 entitled Authenticity is a Feeling, which tells the story of the eclectic, interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Following their twenty-year track of radical experimentation, it focuses on the vulnerability and paradox […]

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival presents Julie Joosten

Zoom 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA, United States

Eden Mills Writers' Festival presents EMWF Showcase: Hot nights. Cool Poets.  In partnership with the League of Canadian Poets With Julie Joosten, author of Nought. Full List of Presenters: Cicely Belle Blain, Burning Sugar, Sadiqa de Meijer, The Outer Wards, Mathew Henderson, Roguelike, Julie Joosten, Nought, Canisia Lubrin, The Dyzgraphxst, Randy Lundy, Field Notes for […]

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