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Kingston Writers Fest presents Tanis MacDonald

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 a workshop with Tanis MacDonald

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 Lee Maracle and Columpa Bobb

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 and Alex Leslie

Vancouver

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. […]

Culture Days Hamilton presents Derek Mascarenhas

Hamilton Public Library 55 York Boulevard, Toronto, ON

Culture Days Hamilton presents Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Also reading: Becky Blake. About this event: Join authors Becky Blake (Proof I Was Here) and Derek Mascarenhas (Coconut Dreams) in conversation with artist and storyteller Lisa Pijuan-Nomura. Presented as part of Culture Days, Epic Books is pleased to partner with Hamilton Public Library, Wolsak […]

Free

After Words Literary Festival presents Gwen Benaway

Portia White Auditorium at the Spatz Theatre 1855 Trollope Street, Halifax, NS

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 Adrienne Gruber

Greater Victoria Public Library | Common Room 735 Broughton St, Victoria, BC

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 […]

$15.00

After Words Literary Festival presents Gwen Benaway

Agricola Street Brasserie 2540 Agricola Street, Halifax, NS

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 Hana Shafi

Toronto Public Library, Palmerston Branch 560 Palmerston Ave., Toronto, ON

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. […]

Free

Pivot Reading Series presents Johanna Skibsrud and Moez Surani

Tranzac Club, Tiki Room 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada

Pivot Reading Series presents Pivot Episode III, Johanna Skibsrud (The Nothing That Is) and Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real). Also reading: Hugh Thomas and Jasmine Gui. Doors at 7:15pm. Readings begin at 8pm.

Free
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