In partnership with the Embassy Cultural House, the Words Festival is pleased to welcome acclaimed author Shani Mootoo. Having just received an honorary doctorate from Western University to recognize her creativity as a celebrated alumna, Shani Mootoo will join Richard Fung in conversation about her Giller Prize-nominated novel Polar Vortex. Zoom registration is free. Register […]

Wordfest's trademark storytelling series continues with The Way We Speak, featuring four of the contributors to the new essay collection Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language: Kamal Al-Solaylee, Amanda Leduc, Carrianne Leung, and Ayelet Tsabari. Each writer will perform an open-mic style monologue on the theme of how we communicate. The Imagine On Air show, hosted by Pam […]

Naked Heart Festival presents READING : Poetry as Revelation with Hasan Namir (author of Umbilical Cord), Charlie Petch, and Elizabeth Mudenyo. Poetry that reveals and conceals. Pieces that expose our vulnerability and build our resilience. December 19, 2021 9 - 10 pm EST Online. Free to attend. Register here.

Junction Reads presents Nic Brewer in conversation about her debut novel Suture.  Sun, January 9, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST Online. Pay what you can. Register here.

Lunch Poems at SFU is an opportunity to celebrate poetry held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific Time. January's Lunch Poems reading features poets Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord, and Molly Cross-Blanchard. Wednesday, January 19, 2022 3:00 – 4:00 PM EST Online. Free. Register here.

Small Press Traffic presents a reading with Gail Scott, author of Permanent Revolution, and Janice Lee, author of Imagine a Death. Introductions by Ivy Johnson + Camille Roy 6:00 pm PST /9:00 pm EST Free online event. Register here: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/january-rsvp  

Aimee Wall, author of the Giller-nominated We, Jane, will be joined by author and translator Geneviève Robichaud, who is translating the novel into French. Wall, herself a professional translator, will read from We, Jane and discuss this novel and the craft of translation with Robichaud. Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:30 pm EST Free. Online event. Register here.

Junction Reads presents a reading and conversation with Lindsay Zier-Vogel author of epistolary novel Letters to Amelia. Sunday, February 6, 2022 5 pm - 6 pm EST Online. Pay what you can. Register here.

This second evening of the Distance as a Keeping Series will set two very different writers alongside each other. R. Kolewe is a Toronto-based poet whose mammoth long poem The Absence of Zero derives its structure from quantum processes such as the Riemann curvature tensor in four dimensions, radioactive decay algorithms, TS Eliot, Dürer, exploring spacetime and memory. Dianne Chisholm, whose feminist […]