Events | Book*hug Press - Part 19

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, […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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, […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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. […]

Free

Troubling and Dreamy: A Night of Prose, Poetry and Comedy with Therese Estacion and Bahar Orang

Now & Later 1007 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Book*hug Press, in partnership with Another Story Bookshop, invites you to celebrate a night of prose, poetry, and comedy. Readings by Therese Estacion (author of Phantompains), Bahar Orang (author of Where Things Touch), Liz Howard, and Andrea Werhun. Hosted by comedian Courtney Gilmour. Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7 - 9 pm ET Now & Later 1007 […]

Free

Pride in the Word: Hosted by Billeh Nickerson

Victoria Conference Centre 720 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC

Pride In The Word is hosted by its renowned co-founder, Billeh Nickerson, author of Duct-Taped Roses. The largest Pride literary event in Canada features six writers bringing an intersectional lens to our 2SLGBTQIA+ communities with words and performance. Featuring: Tawahum Bige, who is Lutselk’e Dene and Plains Cree and Two-Spirit, reading from his new collection, Cut to […]

$20

Queer Literary Horror with Nic Brewer

Little Ghosts 930 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join Nic Brewer (Suture), Emily Kellogg, Anuja Varghese, and Andrew Wilmot for a reading and discussion on queer literary horror, at specialty Toronto bookstore and cafe Little Ghosts! (This event has been rescheduled from its original date on June 28). Sunday, July 3, 2022 5 pm EDT Little Ghosts 930 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON […]

Free

Ochre Fest presents Aimee Wall

Ochre Fest presents Come Home Characters. Featuring readings from three stellar authors home to Newfoundland: Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane, Gerard Collins and Olivia Robinson & live music by Zay Nova. Friday, July 8, 2022 8 pm Newfoundland time | 6:30 pm EDT Route 70, Ochre Pit Cove, NL A0E 3E0, Canada Tickets $25 […]

$25
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