Book*hug Press invites you to join us for a virtual Poetry Salon. Featuring short readings by Angela Carr (Without Ceremony), Lise Downe (Propositions and Prayers), Beatriz Hausner (Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart), Julie Joosten (Nought), Kristen Renee Miller (Spawn), Erín Moure (This Radiant Life), Bahar Orang (Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty), and Kate Sutherland (The […]

VerseFest 2020: Translate This, with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author/translator duo of The Faerie Devouring. Featuring: CATHERINE LALONDE MAUDE PILON OANA AVASILICHIOAEI SIMON BROWN // VERSEFEST 2020 ONLINE Over 60 poets in English and French. Highlights include readings, slams, interviews, talks, and up-close festival firsts like our Dial-a-Poet and Writing Spaces segments. All events […]

VerseFest 2020: Transatlantic Showcase, with Julie Morrissy, author of Where, the Mile End. Featuring: ÁSTA FANNEY SIGURÐARDÓTTIR JULIE MORRISSY STEPHEN SEXTON // VERSEFEST 2020 ONLINE Over 60 poets in English and French. Highlights include readings, slams, interviews, talks, and up-close festival firsts like our Dial-a-Poet and Writing Spaces segments. All events free. Visit versefest.ca for […]

Librairie Drawn and Quarterly presents the New Reads Book Club: Talking Animals by Joni Murphy. The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every few weeks on ZOOM, and are open to all.  

Join Markham Public Library as they interview author Sheung-King about his debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. This novel explores memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King’s debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, […]

Join us for the virtual launch of Trapsongs: Three Plays by Shannon Bramer! With special guests Kirby, Sara Tilley, and Ruth Lawrence. Free online event. All are welcome. Registration required. Register for the Zoom webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_it-ona7LReiOvSt_fw46Qw Pre-order your copy of Trapsongs here: https://bookhugpress.ca/.../trapsongs-three-plays-by.../  

Join Claire Armitstead, literary critic for The Guardian and 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize juror, and Shani Mootoo, whose novel Polar Vortex was shortlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Everyone is welcome to attend this free virtual event. To reserve your spot, please register using the form below. Guests will be given the opportunity to […]