The inaugural Waterloo Bookfest, organized by the KW Writers Alliance and the City of Waterloo, presents Nic Brewer, author of Suture. The festival will also showcase other authors from the Region of Waterloo at a free downtown market.

Join Argo Bookshop for an in-store Book Club with Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes! Having read the book is encouraged, but not required (although there will probably be spoilers). Please note that Argo Bookshop still requires masks in the store.

For many writers, the publishing industry seems to glorify an unceasing outpouring of content. Nic Brewer (author of Suture) and Sienna Tristen see superstars with three, four, five books out in a year, or a poem published apparently every other week. It can feel worryingly like the best (only?) way to achieve satisfaction in publishing […]

After a three-year absence, Book*hug Press is pleased to return to the Athe Fisher Library's biennial Small and Fine Press Fair. The event features some of the country’s finest artists and bookmakers selling their books, illustrations and broadsides. All events at the Fisher are free to the public.

Supercrawl: Hamilton's Music  + Arts Festival presents Nic Brewer, author of Suture. Also featuring readings and discussion from Robert McGill, Sydney Hegele. Moderated by Andrew Wilmot. The event will take place at the reading tent on James Street North. Supercrawl is a free, not-for-profit outdoor music and arts festival that showcases the cultures, businesses and […]

The Eden Mills Writers' Festival presents Her Story, with Chelene Knight (Junie), Martha Bátiz (No Stars in the Sky), and Heather O’Neill (When We Lost Our Heads). Hosted by: Susan G. Cole, writer, activist and former Books Editor at NOW Magazine. Strong but damaged women in crisis. A complicated mother-daughter relationship. An intense and intoxicating […]

Eden Mills Writers' Festival presents What If?, with Cary Fagan (The Animals), Francine Cunningham (God Isn’t Here Today), and Robert McGill (A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life). Host: Steven W. Beattie is a writer and critic from Stratford, Ontario. What if an ice cream vendor was driven insane by his truck’s song? What […]

Facilitated by host David Chariandy, Chelene Knight will discuss her debut novel, Junie, a riveting exploration of the complexity within the mother-daughter relationship. Intimate and urgent, Junie is an unflinching tale of the dynamic vitality and eventual destruction of the once thriving Black and immigrant community of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighborhood. This is an […]

Word Vancouver presents Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language with co-editors Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, and Leonarda Carranza. Hosted by Taslim Jaffer. Taslim Jaffer moderates a scintillating panel of editors and authors on the topic of language diversity in Canada. Editors Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, have curated and edited stunning and wide-ranging […]

Word Vancouver presents Inner Monologues, with Shani Mootoo (author of Cane | Fire). Also with Jude Neale and Alan Hill. Hosted by Leanne Boschman.   Creating space for the personal journey through poetry, these three poets bring to life very different experiences on the page – each reflecting on the difficult, the rewarding and those […]