gritLIT presents Alessandra Naccarato
gritLIT: Readers and Writers Festival presents End of the World as We Know It, a panel discussion and reading with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, and Amanda Leduc and Premee Mohamed. Moderated by Selena Middleton. What happens when our relationship with nature is distorted? Through their two novels and one collection of poetry, […]
Frye Festival presents Shani Mootoo
YouTubeFrye Festival presents Art is Life, with Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex. Also with Carol Bruneau. Hosted by CBC's Colleen Kitts-Goguen. Saturday, April 17, 2021 5:30 pm ADT This in conversation event will be streamed via YouTube @FryeMoncton
Frye Festival presents Lee Maracle
YouTubeFrye Festival presents the annual Maillet-Frye Lecture: Are We Out of the Garrison?, a Keynote Address and Discussion with Lee Maracle, author of My Conversations with Canadians. The Lecture will be followed by a Q&A with Lee Maracle hosted by novelist Jael Richardson, who is a book columnist on CBC’s q, and the founder and […]
Frye Festival presents Shani Mootoo
YouTubeFrye Festival presents Seeing Eye to I / Le jeu du je, with Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex. Also with Canisia Lubrin, Sophie Létourneau, Lorrie Jean-Louis. Hosted by Rachel McCrum. Join four writers who explore selfhood and its multiple reflections and expressions through their narratives, biographical, fictional, or poetic. Sunday, April 18, 2021 3:30 […]
Virtual Launch of We, Jane by Aimee Wall
Zoom WebinarJoin Book*hug Press for the virtual launch of We, Jane by Aimee Wall! Featuring a reading by Aimee Wall and a Q&A moderated by Geneviève Robichaud. All are welcome. Pre-registration for the webinar is required. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_XM0rkSw9Tsuae-zCPpL4Dg
The FOLD presents Writers on Place and Belonging, with Sheung-King
FOLD Virtual PlatformThe FOLD presents a Preview Event: Writers on Place and Belonging In this Mood Series event, a free preview event in partnership with Kitchener Public Library, three exciting new authors discuss novels that tackle notions of place, home and relationships with powerful and moving prose. What does it mean to belong to a place, and […]
Blue Metropolis presents Gail Scott
onlineBlue Metropolis Festival presents Heart-Anger: Writing and Difficulty, a bilingual event with Gail Scott, author of Permanent Revolution. Also with Céleste Godin. Hosted by Oana Avasilichioaei. What are the difficulties of so-called difficult writing? And what of its ease? Novelist and essayist Gail Scott and poet and dramaturge Céleste Godin in an intergenerational dialogue on […]
Planet Earth Poetry Series presents Billeh Nickerson
ZoomPlanet Earth Poetry Series presents Billeh Nickerson, author of Duct-Taped Roses. More details TBC. April 30, 7:30-9pm PST.
Memorial Video for RM Vaughan presented by Verses Festival of Words
Memorial Video for RM Vaughan presented by Verses Festival of Words, with Billeh Nickerson (Duct-Taped Roses), and more. More details TBC. May 1, 6:30 pm PST.
The Festival of Literary Diversity presents Writers on Loss and Grief, with Therese Estacion
FOLD Virtual PlatformThe Festival of Literary Diversity presents Writers on Loss and Grief What happens when we lose something or someone? How do we grieve and how do we "move on"? In this Mood Series event, authors Therese Estacion (Phantompains), Amanda Leduc (The Centaur's Wife), and Kimiko Tobimatsu (Kimiko Does Cancer) discuss the ways unexpected events shape […]
