Events | Book*hug Press - Part 7

CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie

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

Growing Room presents The Limit Does Not Exist: Boundless Forms, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of Vancouver for Beginners, Aisha Sasha John, Aimee Louw, and Carleigh Baker. Moderator: Phay Moores. Memoir in verse, autofiction, kinetic sculpture, lyric essays, performance poetry, music installations. Hybrid forms twist and shape traditional forms of storytelling in startling and revelatory […]

CANCELLED: An evening with Shani Mootoo, Moez Surani and Jay MillAr in Montreal

La Petite Drawn and Quartlery 176 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, Quebec

An evening with Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real), and Book*hug Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press).

Free

POSTPONED: Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo

York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605) Concordia University 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal, QC

Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Helen Humphries: A Reading and Discussion in Conversation with Sina Queyras.

Free

CANCELLED: Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor

House of Anansi Press 128 Stirling Road (Lower Level), Toronto, ON

Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor, author of Just Pervs. Also reading: Nur Abdi, JR McConvey and Hannah Brown. PWYC, with a $5 suggestion.

POSTPONED: The Koffler’s Books & Ideas Series presents Shani Mootoo

720 Bathurst Street Toronto

The Koffler's Books & Ideas Series presents the launch of Shani Mootoo's new novel Polar Vortex, In Conversation with Catherine Bush. The launch of Giller Prize-nominated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo’s highly-anticipated new novel, Polar Vortex, about a couple – Priya and Alexandra – who have moved to a picturesque countryside town, only to […]

POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller

Riverside Theatre 213 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival presents “Behind This Roar, A Door”: A (Mis)translation Workshop for (Non)translators, a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. What makes a poem in translation? Are human translators still needed in the age of auto-translate technology? Experiment with sound and translation—and craft a sonic poem of your own—in […]

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