Events | Book*hug Press - Part 19

Lent by Kate Cayley Book Launch

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

Book*hug Press and Flying Books invite you to celebrate the launch of Kate Cayley's latest poetry collection, Lent! Kate will be reading from the book and sharing some words, followed by time to celebrate and hang with some light refreshments. Wednesday, March 29, 2023 6:30 - 8:00 pm ET Flying Books, 784 College St, Toronto, […]

Free

Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz Book Launch

Type Books 883 Queen St W , Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Type Books, in partnership with Book*hug Press, presents a book launch for Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel Big Shadow. Featuring a reading by Marta followed by a conversation with special guest Thea Lim. Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 7:00-8:00 pm ET Type Books, 883 Queen Street W, Toronto, ON Free. All are welcome.

Free

Kate Cayley @ Toronto WOTS Panel: Writing and Spirituality

Word on the Street Toronto Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Whether it’s the community, the planet, or a higher power, how does writing connect the writer to something bigger than themself? Can writing itself be a kind of spiritual practice? These authors and poets probe the edges of this question. Suite as Sugarby Camille Hernández-Ramdwar - Rare Machines (Dundurn Press) From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s […]

Free

Learned by Carellin Brooks Toronto Book Launch @ ACCUTE Conference 2023 (Congress)

York University

On Saturday May 27th Carellin Brooks will be in Toronto to celebrate the Ontario launch of her poetry collection Learned as part of ACCUTE's Conference at Congress 2023. The event will kick off at 5:30 with the launch portion of the evening, followed by a Rapid Fire Reading Caucus of all the other featured authors! […]

Alessandra Naccarato @ Toronto WOTS Panel: The Art of Reciprocity

Word on the Street Toronto Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation. Blood by […]

Free

Cary Fagan @ Toronto WOTS Panel: Mapping The Landscape of Ecofiction

Word on the Street Toronto Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

On Sunday May 28th Book*hug writer Cary Fagan (author of The Animals) will be moderating a panel at Word on the Street Toronto 2023 called "Mapping The Landscape of Ecofiction" featuring authors Lisa De Nikolits and Menaka Raman-Wilms. From 2:30-3:30 pm in Queen's Park Toronto. Free to attend!    

Free

Magonia X Book*hug Present: I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides Book Launch

Houndstooth 818 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  Magonia, in partnership with Book*hug Press, present a special edition of their film screening series to launch I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides. Featuring a screening of the French film Let The Sunshine In (Claire Denis, 2017) followed by a discussion between Marianne and the Magonia team. Books will […]

Free

Carellin Brooks @ Art Bar Poetry Series on May 29th

Free Times Café 320 College St, Toronto, Ontario

Book*hug Invites you to attend Art Bar Poetry Series on May 29th to catch Carellin Brooks, author of Learned, alongside Joshua Watkis and John Oughton.

$10

Lauren Carter on The First Thirty presented by Junction Reads

IGTV / Instagram Live

On May 31st Lauren Carter will be featured on The First Thirty hosted by Junction Reads to talk about writing her collection of short stories, PLACES LIKE THESE. . "A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming […]

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