In partnership with the Embassy Cultural House, the Words Festival is pleased to welcome acclaimed author Shani Mootoo. Having just received an honorary doctorate from Western University to recognize her […]

Wordfest's trademark storytelling series continues with The Way We Speak, featuring four of the contributors to the new essay collection Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language: Kamal Al-Solaylee, Amanda Leduc, Carrianne Leung, and […]

Naked Heart Festival presents READING : Poetry as Revelation with Hasan Namir (author of Umbilical Cord), Charlie Petch, and Elizabeth Mudenyo. Poetry that reveals and conceals. Pieces that expose our vulnerability […]

Junction Reads presents Nic Brewer in conversation about her debut novel Suture.  Sun, January 9, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST Online. Pay what you can. Register here.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]