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Common Readings presents Jess Taylor and Moez Surani
Common Readings presents Jess Taylor and Moez Surani
Common Readings, the Februrary Edition, presents Jess Taylor (Just Pervs) and Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real). Also reading: Ryan Fitzpatrick.
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Tree Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher
Tree Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher
Tree Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher, co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography. Also reading: Mark Treddinick.
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Pivot Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher
Pivot Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher
Pivot Reading Series presents Erin Brubacher, author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography. DETAILS: Pivot Episode Ten Featuring Erin Brubacher, Andre Babyn, Barnier & Cok @ Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue, fully accessible) 7:30 doors, 8:00 readings PWYC for artist expenses
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Someday Books presents Moez Surani and Jay MillAr
Someday Books presents Moez Surani and Jay MillAr
Someday Books presents Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real) and Book*hug's Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You, Anvil Press.) Hosted by Gregory Betts.
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AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. "A Poetry Reading in Translation” celebrates the important role translation plays in creating global networks for political and social solidarity and change, with an array of acclaimed translator-poets reading works in English translation
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AWP Book Signing with Kristen Renee Miller
AWP Book Signing with Kristen Renee Miller
Book*hug Press presents an AWP Book Signing with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Kristen Renee Miller will be signing copies of her debut translation, Spawn. Copies of the book will be avaiable for purchase for $18.00.
AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
AWP Offsite Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Details to come.
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CANCELLED: McNally Robinson Saskatoon presents Alessandra Naccarato
CANCELLED: McNally Robinson Saskatoon presents Alessandra Naccarato
McNally Robinson Saskatoon presents An Evening with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species.
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CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo
Growing Room Festival presents Louder Now: Voice in Writing, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Emma Healey, Maneo Mohale, Eve Joseph, and Nisa Malli. Moderated by Hannah McGregor. Speech. Silence. Articulation. Movement. Delivery. Voice in writing comes through in so many different ways. Historically, cis men have been heralded for their use of voice in […]
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato
Growing Room Festival presents The Struggle is Real: Writing about Mental Health, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Emma Hansen, Addie Tsai, and Rebecca Salazar. Moderator: Lucia Misch. Discussions around mental health and illnesses might have become marginally less stigmatized than before, but haven’t become any less challenging to navigate. In this […]
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Shani Mootoo
Growing Room Festival presents Fear in Fiction, with panelists Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, Mallory Tater, Zalika Reid-Benta, Rebecca Fisseha, and Rhea Tregebov. Moderated by Doretta Lau. Five celebrated novelists and short story writers discuss how to channel fear in fiction, sharing their secrets to transforming a protagonist’s rock-bottom moments into compelling stories. By […]
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CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie
Growing Room Festival presents Not Your Sidekick: Queer Characters, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of We All Need to Eat, Tanya Boteju, Tash McAdam, and Addie Tsai. Moderated by Jen Currin. Queer identities aren’t plot devices for straight folks’ character development. Queer folks are protagonists of their own individual stories, and they circumnavigate queer narrative […]
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato
Growing Room presents Transmuting Trauma, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Maneo Mohale, Addie Tsai, Corinne Manning. Moderator: Mercedes Eng. There is no linear nature to healing. Our journeys carry us back to our homelands, into the depths of personal legend, and even beyond, into the farthest imagined expanses of our own […]
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie
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 […]
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POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
The Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.
CANCELLED: An evening with Shani Mootoo, Moez Surani and Jay MillAr in Montreal
CANCELLED: An evening with Shani Mootoo, Moez Surani and Jay MillAr in Montreal
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).
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POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
The Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.
POSTPONED: Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo
POSTPONED: Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo
Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Helen Humphries: A Reading and Discussion in Conversation with Sina Queyras.
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CANCELLED: Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor
CANCELLED: Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor
Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor, author of Just Pervs. Also reading: Nur Abdi, JR McConvey and Hannah Brown. PWYC, with a $5 suggestion.
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POSTPONED: The Koffler’s Books & Ideas Series presents Shani Mootoo
POSTPONED: The Koffler’s Books & Ideas Series presents Shani Mootoo
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 […]
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POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
Mission Creek Festival presents LIT WALK: Two Dollar Radio + Sarabande, with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Free and open to the public.
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POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
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 […]