Events | Book*hug Press - Part 4

Someday Books presents Moez Surani and Jay MillAr

Someday Books 21 King St, Unit B, St. Catharines, ON

Someday Books presents Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real) and Book*hug's Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You, Anvil Press.) Hosted by Gregory Betts.

Free

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller

The Little Carver Theatre 226 North Hackberry, San Antonio, TX

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. "A Poetry Reading in Translation” celebrates the important role translation plays in creating global networks for political and social solidarity and change, with an array of acclaimed translator-poets reading works in English translation

Free

AWP Book Signing with Kristen Renee Miller

Henry B. González Convention Center 900 E Market St., San Antonio, TX

Book*hug Press presents an AWP Book Signing with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Kristen Renee Miller will be signing copies of her debut translation, Spawn. Copies of the book will be avaiable for purchase for $18.00.

Free

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller

The Amp Room 2407 N St Mary's St., San Antonio, TX

AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Details to come.

Free

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo

Rennie Hall, Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Growing Room Festival presents Louder Now: Voice in Writing, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Emma Healey, Maneo Mohale, Eve Joseph, and Nisa Malli. Moderated by Hannah McGregor. Speech. Silence. Articulation. Movement. Delivery. Voice in writing comes through in so many different ways. Historically, cis men have been heralded for their use of voice in […]

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato

Rennie Hall, Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Growing Room Festival presents The Struggle is Real: Writing about Mental Health, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Emma Hansen, Addie Tsai, and Rebecca Salazar. Moderator: Lucia Misch. Discussions around mental health and illnesses might have become marginally less stigmatized than before, but haven’t become any less challenging to navigate. In this […]

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo

Rennie Hall, Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Growing Room Festival presents Fear in Fiction, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, Mallory Tater, Zalika Reid-Benta, Rebecca Fisseha, and Rhea Tregebov. Moderated by Doretta Lau. Five celebrated novelists and short story writers discuss how to channel fear in fiction, sharing their secrets to transforming a protagonist’s rock-bottom moments into compelling stories. By […]

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato

Native Education College 237 E 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC

Growing Room Festival presents Accessing Ourselves: Crip Poetics And Writing Our Desires, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Amanda Leduc, and cast members Kat Norris, Caroline Hébert, and Sandra Pronteau from the production Unsettled. Moderator & Event Curator: Aimee Louw. Join disabled, Deaf, mad, crip, ill, tired, traumatized artists who write ourselves […]

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie

Native Education College 237 E 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC

Growing Room Festival presents Not Your Sidekick: Queer Characters, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of We All Need to Eat, Tanya Boteju, Tash McAdam, and Addie Tsai. Moderated by Jen Currin. Queer identities aren’t plot devices for straight folks’ character development. Queer folks are  protagonists of their own individual stories, and they circumnavigate queer narrative […]

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