Events | Book*hug Press - Part 19

The FOLD presents Writers on Place and Belonging, with Sheung-King

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The FOLD presents a Preview Event: Writers on Place and Belonging In this Mood Series event, a free preview event in partnership with Kitchener Public Library, three exciting new authors discuss novels that tackle notions of place, home and relationships with powerful and moving prose. What does it mean to belong to a place, and […]

Blue Metropolis presents Gail Scott

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Blue Metropolis Festival presents Heart-Anger: Writing and Difficulty, a bilingual event with Gail Scott, author of Permanent Revolution. Also with Céleste Godin. Hosted by Oana Avasilichioaei. What are the difficulties of so-called difficult writing? And what of its ease? Novelist and essayist Gail Scott and poet and dramaturge Céleste Godin in an intergenerational dialogue on […]

The Festival of Literary Diversity presents Writers on Loss and Grief, with Therese Estacion

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The Festival of Literary Diversity presents Writers on Loss and Grief What happens when we lose something or someone? How do we grieve and how do we "move on"? In this Mood Series event, authors Therese Estacion (Phantompains), Amanda Leduc (The Centaur's Wife), and Kimiko Tobimatsu (Kimiko Does Cancer) discuss the ways unexpected events shape […]

The FOLD presents Writers on Truth and Curiosity, with Bahar Orang

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The FOLD presents Writers on Truth and Curiosity Personal storytelling and real-life truths require a particular kind of vulnerability, a willingness to bear all. But is the choice that writers make about how they share their stories a truth-telling of its own? In this Mood Series event, three nonfiction writers whose latest works experiment with […]

The FOLD presents Writers on the Beauty of Transformation, with Shani Mootoo

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The FOLD presents Writers on the Beauty of Transformation Sometimes change involves subtle, careful moments that blend and blur over time. But sometimes change happens quickly, churning and transforming us with breathtaking abruptness. In this Mood Series event, Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (Book of Wings), and H. Nigel Thomas (Easily Fooled), explore […]

Toronto Bird Celebrations presents Flyways, Highways and Byways, with Aaron Tucker

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Toronto Bird Celebrations presents Flyways, Highways and Byways, with Aaron Tucker, author of Catalogue d'oiseaux. During a massive spring migration, while most humans are asleep, the airspace above Toronto is abuzz with over 50 million birds - 16 times that of Toronto’s human inhabitants. Home to 3 million people and 180 languages, the City is […]

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