Kingston Writers Fest presents The Big Idea: Is Democracy Doomed?, with Lee Maracle (Hope Matters and My Conversations with Canadians). Also with Robert Lewis and Dave Meslin. In this election year, the Big Idea focuses on a question that is on everyone’s mind: what is the future of Canadian democracy? Can cherished institutions endure ongoing […]

Kingston Writers Fest presents Tanis MacDonald, author of Mobile. For decades, author and educator Michael Kaufman has urged boys and men not only to embrace but to actively promote equal rights for women. Michael argues that men also stand to benefit from the ongoing gender equality revolution, which promises to unlock immense economic, cultural, and […]

Kingston Writers Fest presents To Be Here: Writing Place, a workshop with Tanis MacDonald. Poet Tanis Macdonald explores the questions: what is the action of being here now? How does the past inform the present? where “here” is subject to your own definition, and “history,” is your lived experience of place. Using sample pieces of […]

Kingston Writers Fest presents Hope Matters with Lee Maracle and Columpa Bobb. The romance of the raven; the headstones in the clearing; the ember of justice; a cry to the bark-stripped moon – these are just a few of the many images in Hope Matters, a collection of poems centred around the journey of indigenous […]

Word Vancouver presents Hasan Namir (War/Torn) and Alex Leslie (Vancouver for Beginners). Alex Leslie will appear on the Fiction Stage (THE ATRIUM / LOWER LEVEL Peter Kaye Room) from 1:45-2:45pm). Also reading: Ian Williams. Hasan Namir will appear on the Poetry Stage (9TH FLOOR Josef Wosk Poet’s Corner, Meeting Room #910) from  4pm - 5pm. […]

After Words Literary Festival's presents a Poetry Panel, with Gwen Benaway, author of Holy Wild. Also with Halifax Poet Laureate Dr. Afua Cooper, and Doyali Islam. Hosted by Sue Goyette. ASL interpreted Wheelchair accessible Cash bar on site General Admission: $20.00 Purchase tickets at here.  

Victoria Festival of Authors presents Mine to Break, with Adrienne Gruber, author of Q&A. Also with Billy-Ray Belcourt and Ali Blythe. Join us in an examination of the poetic place where the foundations of identity can be broken open and examined; in a discussion of poetry as a process of deconstruction, of getting down to […]

After Words Literary Festival presents Books and Brunch, with Gwen Benaway, author of Holy Wild,  and Mona Awad. Hosted by Stephanie Domet. Ticketed event: $40.00. Purchase tickets here: https://www.tickethalifax.com/events/97791671/sunday-morning-at-the-afterwords-festival

Toronto Public Library's new poetry series re:verses and curator Phoebe Wang present Poetry and Acts of Care, an evening of poetry with Hana Shafi, author of It Begins with the Body, and Soraya Peerbaye. Phoebe Wang curates an evening to explore how poetry can embody acts of care for ourselves and for today's urgent issues. […]