The inaugural Waterloo Bookfest, organized by the KW Writers Alliance and the City of Waterloo, presents Nic Brewer, author of Suture. The festival will also showcase other authors from the Region of Waterloo at a free downtown market.

Join Argo Bookshop for an in-store Book Club with Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes! Having read the book is encouraged, but not required (although there will probably be spoilers). Please note that Argo Bookshop still requires masks in the store.

For many writers, the publishing industry seems to glorify an unceasing outpouring of content. Nic Brewer (author of Suture) and Sienna Tristen see superstars with three, four, five books out in a year, or a poem published apparently every other week. It can feel worryingly like the best (only?) way to achieve satisfaction in publishing […]

After a three-year absence, Book*hug Press is pleased to return to the Athe Fisher Library's biennial Small and Fine Press Fair. The event features some of the country’s finest artists and bookmakers selling their books, illustrations and broadsides. All events at the Fisher are free to the public.

Supercrawl: Hamilton's Music  + Arts Festival presents Nic Brewer, author of Suture. Also featuring readings and discussion from Robert McGill, Sydney Hegele. Moderated by Andrew Wilmot. The event will take place at the reading tent on James Street North. Supercrawl is a free, not-for-profit outdoor music and arts festival that showcases the cultures, businesses and […]

Facilitated by host David Chariandy, Chelene Knight will discuss her debut novel, Junie, a riveting exploration of the complexity within the mother-daughter relationship. Intimate and urgent, Junie is an unflinching tale of the dynamic vitality and eventual destruction of the once thriving Black and immigrant community of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighborhood. This is an […]

Word Vancouver presents Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language with co-editors Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, and Leonarda Carranza. Hosted by Taslim Jaffer. Taslim Jaffer moderates a scintillating panel of editors and authors on the topic of language diversity in Canada. Editors Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, have curated and edited stunning and wide-ranging […]

Word Vancouver presents Inner Monologues, with Shani Mootoo (author of Cane | Fire). Also with Jude Neale and Alan Hill. Hosted by Leanne Boschman.   Creating space for the personal journey through poetry, these three poets bring to life very different experiences on the page – each reflecting on the difficult, the rewarding and those […]

At the 8th Athens World Poetry Festival, running from September 19-23, see Beatriz Hausner (author of Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Enter the Raccoon), along with over 40 world poets from 13 countries interpret the world through poetry and read their poems in seven places in Athens. Monday, September 19, 2022 8:00 pm Parnassus Literaty Society Karitsi Square Athens, Greece […]

WINNIPEG INTERNATIONAL HYBRID WRITERS’ FESTIVAL presents #THINAIR2022. Check out the unique festival website packed with terrific video content from featured writers throughout this month-long book party, including from Chelene Knight, author of Junie. Online. Free. All are welcome. More information about hybrid festival here. Stay tuned for more information about the hybrid THIN AIR 2022, […]

At the 8th Athens World Poetry Festival, running from September 19-23, see Beatriz Hausner (author of Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Enter the Raccoon), along with over 40 world poets from 13 countries interpret the world through poetry and read their poems in seven places in Athens. Tuesday, September 20, 2022 8:00 pm Benetatos Cultural Center G. Drosini 3, Palaio […]

Join us for a highly anticipated conversation with Chelene Knight discussing her new release Junie. Knight will be in conversation with arts and life reporter, Aparita Bhandari. Friday, September 23, 2022 4 – 5 pm ET Online. Free. Register here.

Book*hug Press and Flying Books invite you to join us for an evening of readings with three debut novelists: Anita Anand (author of A Convergence of Solitudes), Nic Brewer (author of Suture), and Lindsay Zier-Vogel (author of Letters to Amelia). Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the authors will be signing! Admission […]

Book*hug Press is excited to exhibut during the return of the Small Press Market during the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Come meet the people behind the pages of Canada’s independent publishing houses at TIFA’s small press market. With over 15 presses attending from across Ontario and Quebec, you won’t want to miss this unique […]

Meet some of this year’s most exciting Toronto-based authors during this free outdoor event, which will include short readings of works that reflect the many facets of Toronto, including Lindsay Zier-Vogel, author of Letters to Amelia. Stage in The Park Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto, ON Saturday, September 24, 2022 4 pm ET Free […]

TIFA presents: Fragmentary Perceptions: Céline Huyghebaert (author of Remnants) & Auður Jónsdóttir. Moderated by Heidi Reitmaier.   The human memory is fragile, unpredictable and unreliable, yet memories are vital to both our own emotional survival and our understanding of previous generations. In this fascinating conversation, Canadian author Céline Huyghebaert and Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir explore […]

Book*hug is excited to exhibit at WOTS Toronto's Community Pop-Up event at Evergreen Brick Works! The day will feature a readers’ marketplace, eco-themed programming, author walks, kids activities, and the finalists for the 2022 Toronto Book Awards. Free admission! Donations to support The Word On The Street’s mission to champion literacy are welcome.

TIFA presents Poetic Journeys, with Shani Mootoo (author of Cane | Fire) & Pamela Mordecai. Moderated by Fiona Raye Clarke. Inner journeys and voyages of discovery define the latest works of celebrated Canadian writers Shani Mootoo and Pamela Mordecai. Giller-shortlisted writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo brings us Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a […]

TIFA presents a Poetry Reading, with Shani Mootoo (author of Cane | Fire) & Pamela Mordecai. Find your poetry fix at our Stage in the Park and hear two of Canada’s best poets with Shani Mootoo and Pamela Mordecai readings from their poetry collections. Mootoo’s Cane | Fire is a memoir in verse, following the narrator’s personal journey from Ireland to […]

TIFA presents We Come Back Together: Olga Ravn. “We come back together, only to fall apart." TIFA is proud to present a new collection of writing penned by some of the world’s most distinctive voices. The Festival invited 11 authors to respond to a phrase that encapsulates elements of life in 2022. Join daily to […]

TIFA presents Do Androids Dream? with Olga Ravn (author of The Employees) and Victoria Hetherington. Moderated by Samia Madwar. In their latest novels Danish poet and novelist Olga Ravn  and  Canadian author Victoria Hetherington feature worlds struggling to harmonize human life with artificial intelligence (AI). Ravn’s The Employees is a critique of life governed by […]

TIFA presents The Future is Speculative, with Anna Moschovakis (author of Participation) & Kim Fu. Moderated by Robert McGill.   We’re living in a digital world, and authors Anna Moschovakis and Kim Fu know it. Their latest books of genre-defying speculative fiction explore the affect of technology on human nature and community. Canadian writer Fu’s Lesser […]

TIFA presents Embodied Editing, a workshop with Anna Moschovakis (author of Participation). The Humber School for Writers returns to the Festival with a series of daily professional writing masterclasses led by its renowned faculty members and special guests. Each 90-minute class will focus on a specific aspect of writing craft. Sign up for one or […]

Wordfest presents The Way We... Talk About Clothes, starring Jen Sookfong Lee (editor of Good Mom on Paper), Heather O'Neill, Rollie Pemberton, David Pevsner, Pam Rocker, Heidi Sopinka & Douglas Stuart. The sartorial-storytelling audience favourite returns! Seven stylish authors open up their closets and their lives, riffing on the significance of an item of clothing […]

Wordfest presents The Art of Being Good Moms on Paper, with Jen Sookfong Lee (editor of Good Mom on Paper), Heather O'Neill (GMOP contributor), & Heidi Sopinka. Hosted by Ali Bryan. Wordfest’s Gals & Good Times Saturday morning gathering continues to evolve, this year focusing on the fraught, beautiful and complicated relationship between creativity and […]

TIFA presents Journey Inward: Beatriz Hausner (author of Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Enter the Raccoon) will be interviewing Muriel Villanueva about her latest book, The Left Parenthesis (translated from the Catalan by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall). Saturday, October 1, 2022 12 pm ET Lakeside Terrace Harbourfront Centre Tickets can be purchased here.

Victoria Festival of Authors presents Epics and Echoes, with Chelene Knight (author of Junie). Also with Tsering Yangzom Lama, J.M. Miro, and Danny Ramadan Live music by Peach Pyramid/Jen Severtson. About this event Tibet after the Chinese invasion. Vancouver in the 1930s. Victorian London. Syria in 2003. The settings of the books featured are as […]

Book*hug Press is excited to exhibit at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Visit us at booth 216. We hope to see you there! This year’s main Festival Day and Literary Marketplace (October 2) returns to parks, plazas, and venues surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall with more than 50 programs and events throughout the day. Please note: BKBF […]

Victoria Festival of Authors presents Climate Acts, Land Sings, with Alessandra Naccarato (author of Imminent Domains), Tawahum Bige, and Julie Sze. Moderated by Rita Wong. Starting with the understanding that the climate crisis is caused by colonialism, and that a collective future depends on ending extractive capitalism and renewing Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and […]