Wordfest presents The Way We... Talk About Clothes, starring Jen Sookfong Lee (editor of Good Mom on Paper), Heather O'Neill, Rollie Pemberton, David Pevsner, Pam Rocker, Heidi Sopinka & Douglas Stuart. The sartorial-storytelling audience favourite returns! Seven stylish authors open up their closets and their lives, riffing on the significance of an item of clothing […]

Introducing A Different Page, a new multidisciplinary storytelling series where writers, dance artists and musicians collaborate to create new performance pieces that explores themes of decolonization and diversity. Each presentation features a different duo of writers and performing artists, who can be seen by audiences rehearsing together on-site during the day before presenting their finished […]

Wordfest presents The Art of Being Good Moms on Paper, with Jen Sookfong Lee (editor of Good Mom on Paper), Heather O'Neill (GMOP contributor), & Heidi Sopinka. Hosted by Ali Bryan. Wordfest’s Gals & Good Times Saturday morning gathering continues to evolve, this year focusing on the fraught, beautiful and complicated relationship between creativity and […]

TIFA presents Journey Inward: Beatriz Hausner (author of Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Enter the Raccoon) will be interviewing Muriel Villanueva about her latest book, The Left Parenthesis (translated from the Catalan by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall). Saturday, October 1, 2022 12 pm ET Lakeside Terrace Harbourfront Centre Tickets can be purchased here.

Victoria Festival of Authors presents Epics and Echoes, with Chelene Knight (author of Junie). Also with Tsering Yangzom Lama, J.M. Miro, and Danny Ramadan Live music by Peach Pyramid/Jen Severtson. About this event Tibet after the Chinese invasion. Vancouver in the 1930s. Victorian London. Syria in 2003. The settings of the books featured are as […]

Book*hug Press is excited to exhibit at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Visit us at booth 216. We hope to see you there! This year’s main Festival Day and Literary Marketplace (October 2) returns to parks, plazas, and venues surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall with more than 50 programs and events throughout the day. Please note: BKBF […]

Victoria Festival of Authors presents Climate Acts, Land Sings, with Alessandra Naccarato (author of Imminent Domains), Tawahum Bige, and Julie Sze. Moderated by Rita Wong. Starting with the understanding that the climate crisis is caused by colonialism, and that a collective future depends on ending extractive capitalism and renewing Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and […]

Join us to celebrate the launch of Kate Hargreaves’s new poetry collection, tend! With guest readers Skylar Kay and Amilcar Nogueira, and host Nicole Markotic. Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6: 30 pm ET Craft Heads Brewery Patio 89 University Ave W, Windsor, ON Free to attend. All are welcome. FB event page here. Whiskyjack Boutique […]

Join us to celebrate the launch of River Halen’s new book, Dream Rooms! With guest reader Felix Chau Bradley. Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6 pm ET L'Euguélionne 1426 Rue Beaudry Montréal, QC Free to attend. All are welcome. FB event page here. To protect each other from the highly transmissible BA.5 COVID variant, we ask […]

Book*hug Press and Flying Books invite you to join us for a double book launch to celebrate new releases from Cary Fagan (The Animals) and Kate Hargreaves (tend). Friday, October 7, 2022 6:30 -8:00 pm ET Flying Books 784 College St. Toronto, ON Admission is free. All are welcome to attend. FB event page here. […]