TIFA presents a Poetry Reading, with Shani Mootoo (author of Cane | Fire) & Pamela Mordecai. Find your poetry fix at our Stage in the Park and hear two of Canada’s best poets with Shani Mootoo and Pamela Mordecai readings from their poetry collections. Mootoo’s Cane | Fire is a memoir in verse, following the narrator’s personal journey from Ireland to […]

AfterWords Virtual Conference for Writers presents keynote speaker, Chelene Knight, author of Junie. Chelene will be in conversation with writer and Afterwords Literary Festival co-founder Stephanie Domet. 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm AT | Online Free. Tickets can be reserved here.        

TIFA presents We Come Back Together: Olga Ravn. “We come back together, only to fall apart." TIFA is proud to present a new collection of writing penned by some of the world’s most distinctive voices. The Festival invited 11 authors to respond to a phrase that encapsulates elements of life in 2022. Join daily to […]

TIFA presents Do Androids Dream? with Olga Ravn (author of The Employees) and Victoria Hetherington. Moderated by Samia Madwar. In their latest novels Danish poet and novelist Olga Ravn  and  Canadian author Victoria Hetherington feature worlds struggling to harmonize human life with artificial intelligence (AI). Ravn’s The Employees is a critique of life governed by […]

TIFA presents The Future is Speculative, with Anna Moschovakis (author of Participation) & Kim Fu. Moderated by Robert McGill.   We’re living in a digital world, and authors Anna Moschovakis and Kim Fu know it. Their latest books of genre-defying speculative fiction explore the affect of technology on human nature and community. Canadian writer Fu’s Lesser […]

TIFA presents Embodied Editing, a workshop with Anna Moschovakis (author of Participation). The Humber School for Writers returns to the Festival with a series of daily professional writing masterclasses led by its renowned faculty members and special guests. Each 90-minute class will focus on a specific aspect of writing craft. Sign up for one or […]

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.