Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents an Afternoon Book Chat with Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. Also with Jim Nason. Family, poverty, society, and self make up some of the territory of today’s writers, who use prose and poetry to reflect on the world around them.

Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents 'Home is Where the ________ Is,' with Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. Also with Caity Curtis & Stephen Sim, Dimitri Nasrallah, Jim Nason, Karen Clavelle and Thomas Trofimuk. Please note this is a ticketed event. Purchase tickets here.

Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. Also with Dimitri Nasrallah. Two accomplished, innovative writers explore family, society, and politics in their probing, profound work.

Cabot Train Writers Festival presents an Opening Night reading with Oisín Curran, author of Blood Fable. Also with Joanne Schwartz, Phonse Jessome, Shalan Joudry, Sharon Bala, Linda Spalding, Madeleine Thien.Hosted by Jared Bland. Hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, and books available for purchase. Please note that this is a ticketed event. Purchase online tickets here. Call (902) 224-5231 to […]

Cabot Train Writers Festival presents "The Pram in the Hall": Is Parenthood the Enemy of Art?: A Conversation with Oisín Curran, author of Blood Fable, as well as Shalan Joudry and Linda Spalding. Please note that this is a ticketed event. Purchase online tickets here. Call (902) 224-5231 to purchase tickets over the phone. Tickets […]

Cabot Trail Writers Festival presents a Fiction Workshop with Oisín Curran, author of Blood Fable Fictional Confabs: Writing Literary Dialogue Most fiction is an authorial monologue. But as a game of make-believe, it often features conversations.                           How do we deal with dialogue when […]

Victoria Festival of Authors presents 'This is My Story, Not Me,' with Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. Also with Darrel J. McLeod and Vivek Shraya. Moderated by Sonnet L‘Abbé. Ben Okri once said, “We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite […]

Boundary Conditions / Performance Assembly, and Nuit Blanche Toronto, present Operations (1945 - 2006) : Movements. This is a public performance installation combining ballet and poetry to express the scale of 20th-century military operations by United Nations members. The performance is based on Canadian poet Moez Surani’s Operations (Book*hug, 2016), a critically praised work of conceptual poetry comprised of the […]

Room Magazine presents Afterword, a night of readings, conversation, food, and community, with Mallory Tater, author of This Will Be Good, as well as Amber Dawn, Juliane Okot Bitek, Meagan Black, Jillian Christmas, Ivan Coyote, Sara Graefe, Jessica Johns, Andrea Macpherson, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Jaye Simpson, Andrea Warner, Isabella Wang, and Elaine Woo. Thanks to […]

Queen Mob's Teahouse presents their "teaparty" reading, with Christine McNair, author of Charm. Also with rob mclennan, Russell Bennetts, and Clara Daneriat.