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 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 […]

Word Vancouver presents Finding Home with Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Also with Nilofar Shidmehr and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Hosted By: Kaie Kellough. Enjoy these three authors who read and speak to their short story collections examining how identity shifts between old world traditions and new world identities. Free registration via Eventbrite.

Speakeasy Reading Series presents Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Also reading: Canisia Lubrin and Eufemia Fantetti, Jonathan Bessette, and Evren Sezgin. ***Zoom info will be posted in this Facebook event on Sunday, September 20.***

Word Vancouver presents Writing Through the Generations with Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, co-authors of Hope Matters.   Keeping it in the family—What do we pass on to our kids? What do our kids pass on to us? In today's world, we need to pass on hope for tomorrow for everyone. This family […]

Toronto Word on the Street, in partnership with the Toronto Book Awards, presents Writing Healthcare: Impressions from a Pandemic, with Bahar Orang, author of Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty. Also with Cathy Crowe, Dr. James Maskalyk, and Dr. Kwame McKenzie. Hosted by Mark Bulgutch. This free event will be live-streamed on the WOTS […]