Join Lauren Carter for the hybrid launch of her short story collection, Places Like These. Read more here. Thursday, May 4, 2023 7:00 pm McNally Robinson Booksellers, 4000-1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB FB event page here. Free. All are welcome. Streaming via YouTube

The Festival of Literary Diversity 2023 (The FOLD) presents The Great Readception, with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Also with Ali Hassan, Anuja Varghese, Catherine Hernandez, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Jen Sookfong Lee. Hosted by Tea Mutonji. This in-person evening event, a unique sampling of festival authors read from their works […]

The Festival of Literary Diversity 2023 (The FOLD) presents Memorable Memoirs, a panel discussion with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Also with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Jen Sookfong Lee. Moderated by Amanda Leduc. Three incredible memoirists take to the stage at Brampton’s impressive Rose Theatre to discuss their most recent memoirs.

The Festival of Literary Diversity 2023 (The FOLD) presents Spoken Word Showcase, with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Also with Shelly Grace, Shahaddah Jack, and Gavin Russell. Hosted by The Wild Woman. Spoken word host The Wild Woman returns to the Rose Studio to host an incredibly curated event of […]

Book*hug Press and Flying Books invite you to celebrate the launch of Kate Cayley's latest poetry collection, Lent! Kate will be reading from the book and sharing some words, followed by time to celebrate and hang with some light refreshments. Wednesday, March 29, 2023 6:30 - 8:00 pm ET Flying Books, 784 College St, Toronto, […]

Type Books, in partnership with Book*hug Press, presents a book launch for Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel Big Shadow. Featuring a reading by Marta followed by a conversation with special guest Thea Lim. Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 7:00-8:00 pm ET Type Books, 883 Queen Street W, Toronto, ON Free. All are welcome.

Join host Seyward Goodhand and award-winning writer Lauren Carter for conversation and readings from Places Like These.

Whether it’s the community, the planet, or a higher power, how does writing connect the writer to something bigger than themself? Can writing itself be a kind of spiritual practice? These authors and poets probe the edges of this question. Suite as Sugarby Camille Hernández-Ramdwar - Rare Machines (Dundurn Press) From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s […]

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation. Blood by […]

On Sunday May 28th Book*hug writer Cary Fagan (author of The Animals) will be moderating a panel at Word on the Street Toronto 2023 called "Mapping The Landscape of Ecofiction" featuring authors Lisa De Nikolits and Menaka Raman-Wilms. From 2:30-3:30 pm in Queen's Park Toronto. Free to attend!    

  Magonia, in partnership with Book*hug Press, present a special edition of their film screening series to launch I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides. Featuring a screening of the French film Let The Sunshine In (Claire Denis, 2017) followed by a discussion between Marianne and the Magonia team. Books will […]

Book*hug Invites you to attend Art Bar Poetry Series on May 29th to catch Carellin Brooks, author of Learned, alongside Joshua Watkis and John Oughton.

On May 31st Lauren Carter will be featured on The First Thirty hosted by Junction Reads to talk about writing her collection of short stories, PLACES LIKE THESE. . "A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming […]