Lunch Poems at SFU is an opportunity to celebrate poetry held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific Time. January's Lunch Poems reading features poets Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord, and Molly Cross-Blanchard. Wednesday, January 19, 2022 3:00 – 4:00 PM EST Online. Free. Register here.

Small Press Traffic presents a reading with Gail Scott, author of Permanent Revolution, and Janice Lee, author of Imagine a Death. Introductions by Ivy Johnson + Camille Roy 6:00 pm PST /9:00 pm EST Free online event. Register here: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/january-rsvp  

Aimee Wall, author of the Giller-nominated We, Jane, will be joined by author and translator Geneviève Robichaud, who is translating the novel into French. Wall, herself a professional translator, will read from We, Jane and discuss this novel and the craft of translation with Robichaud. Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:30 pm EST Free. Online event. Register here.

Junction Reads presents a reading and conversation with Lindsay Zier-Vogel author of epistolary novel Letters to Amelia. Sunday, February 6, 2022 5 pm - 6 pm EST Online. Pay what you can. Register here.

This second evening of the Distance as a Keeping Series will set two very different writers alongside each other. R. Kolewe is a Toronto-based poet whose mammoth long poem The Absence of Zero derives its structure from quantum processes such as the Riemann curvature tensor in four dimensions, radioactive decay algorithms, TS Eliot, Dürer, exploring spacetime and memory. Dianne Chisholm, whose feminist […]

Women's Work Festival Presents the Playwrights Guild of Canada Playconnect reading with Shannon Bramer, who will be reading from Trapsongs, along with Prajwala Dixit, Nicole Leona Smith, and Natalie Meisner. Wednesday March 9, 2022 3:00pm-4:30pm Free online event. View here.

Join Aimee Wall, along with Coast Lines host Angela Antle (BA'91) and political science professor Dr. Amanda Bittner as they discuss Wall's remarkable debut novel, We, Jane. Wednesday, March 09, 2022 7:30 pm  Newfoundland time | 9 pm EST Free. Online. Register here.  

Shannon Webb-Campbell reads from her new poetry book Lunar Tides with Mi'kmaq-Newfoundland poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough for Centre des arts de Standstead in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Hosted by Shelley Pomerance. March 15, 2022 7 -8 pm EST Free event. Online. Register here. Visit the FB event page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1094813231296992

Shannon Webb-Campbell will read from her forthcoming book Lunar Tides with Rebecca Thomas, author of I'm Finding My Talk, Swift Fox All Along, and I Place You Into The Fire at the University of New Brunswick virtual Reading Series. March 16, 2022, 7pm Atlantic | 7:30 pm NL | 6pm EST. Free. Online. Register here.

Shani Mootoo reads from Cane | Fire alongside Natalie Wee. Hosted by Faith Paré. Friday, March 25, 2022 7 pm - 8 pm EDT Online. Free. Register here. Visit the FB event page for more information.