Vancouver launch of We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie
Massy Books 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, British ColumbiaBook*hug, together with Massy Books, invites you to the Vancouver launch of We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie. With special guests Cecily Nicholson and Selina Boan. Hosted by Leah Horlick. All are welcome. Massy Books' downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/ Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries. […]
Naked Heart Festival Presents Hana Shafi
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, OntarioThe Naked Heart Festival presents "Spectrums of Sanity - Mental Health and The Writer" featuring Hana Shafi, author of It Begins With The Body. Also with Greg Wong, Peter Knegt, and Star Spider. Revisiting one of the most significant panels of the first Naked Heart Festival in 2015, writers openly share their struggles and strategies when […]
Laser Hexagram presents Chantal Neveu
Concordia University Montreal, QCLaser Hexagram presents LASER 6 : Ecologies X Voice X Body X Atmosphere, with Chantal Neveu, author of Coit and A Spectacular Influence. A fleeting encounter between poetry and dance in an atmospheric scenography entitled Atmospheres conceived by the Topological Media Lab (TML) and presented in their research-creation laboratory at Concordia University. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY 1515 […]
Refuse: CanLit in Ruins Vancouver Launch
SFU Harbour Centre 555 W. Hastings, Vancouver, BC, CanadaPlease join us for the Vancouver launch of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, a new collection of essays, poems, and conversations on the contemporary state of Canadian literature from Book*hug. Hosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Jen Sookfong Lee of Can't Lit, and featuring readings by six of the collection's 24 contributors: kim golberg, Sonnet l'Abbé, […]
New Dominion Reading Series presents Kim Trainor
Flex Space 308 268 Keefer Street, Vancovuer, BCNew Dominion Reading Series #19 presents Kim Trainor, author of Ledi. Also with Carlie Blume and Aaron Chan. Join us in the Sun Wah Building in FLEX SPACE 308 at 268 Keefer Street in the new BC Artscape Project in Chinatown. The venue is wheelchair accessible with an elevator, and a wheelchair accessible washroom. Additional […]
Holiday Pop-up Book Fair
Atrium of the McConnell Building at Concordia 1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal, QuebecThe Holiday Pop-up Book Fair presents "Tell It Slant: Writing Memoir at an Angle," featuring Erin Moure, author of Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots. Also with Lindsay Nixon, author of nîtisânak and Will Aitken, author of Antigone Undone. Moderated by Jacob Wren.
Carleton’s English Dept. Presents Sandra Ridley,
Carleton University, Gordon Wood Lounge Dunton Tower, 18th floor, Library Rd, Ottawa, OntarioCarleton’s English Dept. presents Sandra Ridley, author of Silvija. Also with Rhonda Douglas.
Honolulu launch of Smells Like Stars by D. Nandi Odhiambo
University of Hawai'i, Manoa Hawai'iHonolulu launch of Smells Like Stars by D. Nandi Odhiambo. Presented by Words @manoa, Creative Writing at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. In KUY 410. Free and open to the public.
Festival International de la Poésie & Literary Translators’ of Canada present Carole David and Donald Winkler
Free Times Café 320 College St, Toronto, OntarioFestival International de la Poésie & Literary Translators' of Canada present a reading with Carole David and Donald Winkler, author and translator of The Year of My Disappearance. Also with Nicole Brossard and Ray Ellenwood, who will read from, and launch, a cappella, a limited edition suite of poems translated by Robert Majzels and Erín Moure, with art by Mauricio Corteletti, […]
Book*hug Double Launch: Gwen Benaway and Hana Shafi
La Petite Drawn and Quarterly 176 rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC, CanadaPlease join us for the Montreal launch of Gwen Benaway's Holy Wild and Hana Shafi's It Begins With the Body, with guest readers Lindsday Nixon, Marcela Huerta, and Eli Tareq Lynch. La Petite Drawn and Quarterly Accessibility information: - Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at […]
