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SUMMARY:Voices of Resistance: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends\, don’t miss the launch of Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide by Batool Abu Akleen\, Sondos Sabra\, Nahil Mohana\, and Ala’a Obaid. The book will be co-launching with Leila Marshy’s Razing Palestine in this event hosted by Samira Mohyeddin. Books will be for sale and signing from Another Story. \nThe double launch is free to attend and will take place at It’s Ok* Studios on Monday\, November 17 at 6:30PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder a copy of Voices of Resistance here! \nABOUT VOICES OF RESISTANCE \nFor two years\, the world has witnessed image after devastating image of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: videos\, photos\, and Instagram reels showing blanket bombardment\, cities in ruin\, and entire families pulled from the rubble of their homes. Such enormity can be difficult to process\, but behind each image lie ordinary lives full of hope\, love\, and community. \nIn these diaries\, four Gazan women—Batool Abu Akleen\, Sondos Sabra\, Nahil Mohana\, and Ala’a Obaid—offer first-hand accounts of Israeli airstrikes\, forced displacement\, and engineered famine. These atrocities are documented alongside the everyday resilience of Palestinians: from the neighbour who fashions an ashtray from the shrapnel of an Israeli missile\, to the street vendor who donates his last egg for a child’s birthday cake\, to the community of displaced people who pool their resources to stage a traditional wedding. Even when homeless\, under fire\, forced to bury loved ones\, or thrown at the mercy of a devastated health system\, the writers of these diaries never abandon their humanity\, their individuality\, or their belief in the future of Gaza. \nAll proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to the writers and their families.  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nBatool Abu Akleen is a twenty-year-old Palestinian poet and translator\, born and raised in Gaza City. She is a student of English Literature and Translation at the Islamic University of Gaza. At the age of fifteen\, Abu Akleen won the Parjeel Poetry Prize for her poem ‘I Did Not Steal the Cloud’\, which was also translated and published as part of the anthology Di acqua e di tempo. Her poem ‘I Want a Grave’ was published in Penguin’s Letters from Gaza (2025). She was the 2024 Poet-in-Residence with Modern Poetry in Translation\, for whom she collected and translated Sea Shells: An Anthology of Emerging Poets from Gaza (edited by Cristina Viti). Her poem ‘Gunpowder’ was among the winners of The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025. Her debut bilingual poetry collection 48Kg was published by Tenement Press in June 2025. Extracts from her diaries have been performed by Leila Herandi at the Belgrade Theatre\, Coventry. \nNahil Mohana is the author of the novel No Men Allowed\, the short story collection Life in a Square Metre and six plays including High Pressure\, which received the 2008 Abdul Mohsin Al-Qattan Prize; Ghoson\, which received the 2008 Children’s Culture Award; and Lipstick\, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre\, London. Her writing has appeared in AGNI Online\, Literary Hub\, and The Washington Post. Extracts from her diaries have been performed by Maxine Peake at the Barbican Theatre\, London\, and Julie-Yara Atz at the Belgrade Theatre\, Coventry. \nAla’a Obaid is a writer and a mother of three children. She has held a number of positions in various NGOs and cultural institutions in Gaza\, including Education Officer\, Creative Writing Teacher and Culture Centre Coordinator. Ala’a co-authored the books Writing Behind the Lines and Disturbing Flashbacks\, both of which document the experiences of Palestinians living through the current genocide. She has published several articles in The New Arab. Excerpts from her diaries have been performed by Hind Shoufani at the Barbican Theatre\, London\, and by Zarah Sultana MP at the Belgrade Theatre\, Coventry. \nSondos Sabra\, 25\, holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the Islamic University of Gaza and is a founding member of the Shaghaf Youth Initiative\, which organises discussions of literary works. She is a translator and writer. Her writing has appeared in Mondoweiss\, The New Statesman\, and ArabLit Quarterly. Extracts from her diaries have been performed by Yusra Warsama at the Barbican Theatre\, London\, and Sama Rantisi at the Belgrade Theatre\, Coventry. Her piece ‘We Kill Terrorism’ was read by Maxine Peake to a crowd of 15\,000 protesters outside the 2024 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/voices-of-resistance-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:It’s Ok* Studios\, 468 Queen Street W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5V 2B2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson: Winnipeg Free Press Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (trans. Philip Roughton) is the Winnipeg Free Press Book Club’s November Pick! Jón will be appearing virtually for this online event to speak about the book. \nThe event will take place virtually on Tuesday\, November 25 at 12PM CT. More details TK. \nOrder Heaven and Hell here! \nCheck out the second book\, The Sorrow of Angels\, here! \nABOUT HEAVEN AND HELL \n“Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy.”—Eileen Battersby\, TLS \nIn a remote fishing village\, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about poetry. When the friend\, absorbed in a borrowed copy of Paradise Lost\, forgets his oilskin one morning and the crew is unexpectedly caught at sea in a savage winter storm\, tragedy strikes. Overwhelmed by grief—and his crewmates’ indifference to what has happened—the boy leaves the village\, determined to return the book to its owner. The hardship and danger of the journey is of little consequence: he’s already resolved to join his friend in death. But when he reaches the town where he intends to end his days\, he couldn’t have imagined the stories and lives he finds. \nNavigating the depths of despair to celebrate the redemptive power of friendship\, Heaven and Hell is an incandescent story of community\, resilience\, and love from one of Iceland’s most celebrated novelists. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-winnipeg-free-press-book-club/
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SUMMARY:Robyn Sarah at Ottawa VerseFest
DESCRIPTION:VerseFest Presents\nRobyn Sarah\, author of We’re Somewhere Else Now: Poems 2016–2024\, will be appearing at Ottawa’s VerseFest on Tuesday\, March 24. She’ll be joined by fellow poets David Galvaude and Melissa Powless Day\, in an event hosted by Chloé LaDuchesse. \nThe event will take place at Club Saw at 8:30PM EST. Tickets are available for purchase here. \nGrab a copy of We’re Somewhere Else Now here! \nABOUT WE’RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW \nIn her first collection of new poems in a decade\, Robyn Sarah chronicles the pandemic years with quiet wisdom and her flair for meshing the familiar with the numinous. \nWe’re Somewhere Else Now moves with ease from the particular to the abstract. These are poems of grief and unexpected change\, of quiet awe at the human experience. Each poem is a window for the reader to look into\, “lit room to lit room\,” tracking desultory days of isolation and uncertainty\, while also highlighting reasons to pay attention: playing with a grandchild\, the rarity of a leap year\, the calls of birds. \nABOUT ROBYN SARAH \nPoet\, writer\, literary editor\, and musician\, Robyn Sarah has lived in Montreal since early childhood. Her writing began to appear in Canadian literary magazines in the 1970s while she completed studies at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. Her tenth poetry collection\, My Shoes Are Killing Me\, won the Governor General’s Award in 2015. As well\, she has published two collections of short stories\, a book of essays on poetry\, and a memoir\, Music\, Late and Soon (2021)\, that interweaves her youth as a professional-track clarinetist with her return at fifty-nine (after a lapse of thirty-five years) to the piano teacher who was her life mentor. From 2010 until 2020 she served as poetry editor for Cormorant Books.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/robyn-sarah-at-ottawa-versefest/
LOCATION:Club Saw\, 67 Nicholas Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:OBLIVIOUS: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Toronto to celebrate the final book—and life’s work—of acclaimed author Elaine Dewar. \nElaine Dewar didn’t live to see the publication of her last book\, Oblivious\, an investigative masterwork that every Canadian should read. Oblivious examines one of the most shameful chapters in Canadian history: the government-sanctioned medical experiments on an Indigenous population. Elaine Dewar raises unwelcome questions about who knew what and when—and what the obliviousness means for this country’s reconciliation with First Nations and other going forward. Please come and help celebrate Elaine’s lifelong legacy of pursuing uncomfortable truths. \nThis launch\, hosted by Marci McDonald\, will take place at Massey College on Wednesday\, April 29 at 6PM EST. \nRSVP to Dominique at dbechard@biblioasis.com \nGrab a copy of Oblivious here. \nABOUT OBLIVIOUS \nOver the last thirty years\, Canadians have been forced to face their country’s genocidal attempt to destroy its Indigenous populations through segregation\, poverty\, coerced labour\, and infectious diseases. Few have read the statements of claim\, academic literature\, or multi-volume commission reports setting out exactly what we stole and who we hurt (and how); and the policies and decisions which harmed generations of Indigenous people are still not broadly known. \nIn Oblivious\, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar exposes the governmental and psychological machinery that allowed this to continue for so long. The granddaughter of settlers saved during their first Prairie winter by the generosity of Indigenous neighbours\, Dewar explores how even well-meaning Canadians who glimpsed what was being done did nothing to stop it. In the process\, she uncovers further evidence of crimes against Indigenous people\, including unethical and cruel scientific experiments\, a segregated and woefully inadequate health care system\, and a callous indifference to Indigenous well-being that has almost entirely eroded the sense of trust true reconciliation must be based on. \nPart memoir\, part investigation\, Oblivious tells the story of a Jewish girl from Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, who grew up in a society so segregated—its Indigenous people consigned to an alternate universe—that she\, like so many of us\, failed to notice their plight for decades. \nABOUT ELAINE DEWAR \nElaine Dewar (1948–2025)—author\, journalist\, television story editor—has been honoured by nine National Magazine awards\, including the prestigious President’s Medal\, and the White Award. Her first book\, Cloak of Green\, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. Bones: Discovering the First Americans\, an investigation of the science and politics regarding the peopling of the Americas\, was a national bestseller and earned a special commendation from the Canadian Archaeological Association. The Second Tree: of Clones\, Chimeras\, and Quests for Immortality won Canada’s premier literary nonfiction prize from the Writers’ Trust. The Handover was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. On The Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years broke front page news in the Globe and Mail with its investigation into the infiltration of Canada’s only level four microbiology institution by leading Chinese military researchers who subsequently fled the country. Called “Canada’s Rachel Carson\,” Dewar aspired to be a happy warrior for the public good.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/oblivious-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Massey College\, 4 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2E1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at the BOOKED! Fernie Writers' Series
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson\, author of the short story collection A Way to Be Happy\, is appearing as the last writer in the BOOKED! Fernie Writers’ Series 25/26 season. Caroline will be speaking in conversation with local author Angie Abdou. \nThe event is free to attend\, and will take place on Thursday\, May 26 2026 at 7PM PDT. The event is 19+ event in accordance with their liquor license. \nMore details and registration here. \nOrder a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-the-booked-fernie-writers-series/
LOCATION:Fernie Heritage Library\, 492 3 Ave\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Marcello Di Cintio: Conversations in Trust Calgary (Writers' Trust 50th Anniversary)
DESCRIPTION:Marcello Di Cintio\, author of Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers\, will be featured in the Writers’ Trust 50th Anniversary event in Calgary\, “Conversations in Trust Calgary: Canadian Authors Make Sense of Our World\,” joining Canadian writers and leaders in the arts\, business\, and society for a national conversation on connection. \nMarcello will be in conversation with fellow authors Guy Vanderhaeghe\, Jenny Heijun Wills\, and Shelley Youngblut. \nThe event takes place at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks on Wednesday\, May 13 at 6PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers here! \nABOUT PRECARIOUS \nFinalist for the 2026 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize • Finalist for the 2026 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 • One of The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025 • Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award \nA series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global systems of migrant labor and the vulnerability of their most disenfranchised agents. \nIn 2023\, after weeks of investigation\, United Nations Special Rapporteur Tomoyo Obokata came to a scathing conclusion: Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” Workers complained of excessive hours and unpaid overtime; of being forced to perform dangerous tasks or ones not specified in their contracts; of being physically abused\, intimidated\, and sexually harassed; and of overcrowded\, unsanitary living conditions that deprived them of their privacy and dignity. \nIn Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers\, Marcello Di Cintio ranges across the country speaking to those who have come from elsewhere to till our fields\, bathe our elderly\, and serve us our Double Doubles\, uncovering stories of tremendous perseverance\, resilience\, and humanity\, but also of precarity and vulnerability. He shows that vast swathes of our economy depend on the work of people we don’t see\, while expanding our awareness of what migrant work now entails\, and revealing that our mistreatment of the most vulnerable among us diminishes our own dignity. \nABOUT MARCELLO DI CINTIO \nMarcello Di Cintio is the author of six books\, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades\, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense\, and Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers. He has also written for the Globe and Mail\, The Walrus\, The International New York Times\, and Canadian Geographic\, among others. He lives in Calgary.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/marcello-di-cintio-conversations-in-trust-calgary-writers-trust-50th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Decidedly Jazz Danceworks\, 111 12 Avenue Southeast\, Calgary\, AB\, T2G 1A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon of Poetry: Robyn Sarah at Motel Chelsea
DESCRIPTION:Come on out to Motel Chelsea\, where Robyn Sarah\, author of We’re Somewhere Else Now: Poems 2016–2024\, will be joined by Ken Victor for an afternoon of poetry reading. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, May 24 at 2PM ET. \nMore details here! \nGrab We’re Somewhere Else Now here! \nABOUT WE’RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW \nPoet\, writer\, literary editor\, and musician\, Robyn Sarah has lived in Montreal since early childhood. Her writing began to appear in Canadian literary magazines in the 1970s while she completed studies at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. Her tenth poetry collection\, My Shoes Are Killing Me\, won the Governor General’s Award in 2015. As well\, she has published two collections of short stories\, a book of essays on poetry\, and a memoir\, Music\, Late and Soon (2021)\, that interweaves her youth as a professional-track clarinetist with her return at fifty-nine (after a lapse of thirty-five years) to the piano teacher who was her life mentor. From 2010 until 2020 she served as poetry editor for Cormorant Books. \nABOUT ROBYN SARAH \nA California Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2025 \nIn her first collection of new poems in a decade\, Robyn Sarah chronicles the pandemic years with quiet wisdom and her flair for meshing the familiar with the numinous.  \nWe’re Somewhere Else Now moves with ease from the particular to the abstract. These are poems of grief and unexpected change\, of quiet awe at the human experience. Each poem is a window for the reader to look into\, “lit room to lit room\,” tracking desultory days of isolation and uncertainty\, while also highlighting reasons to pay attention: playing with a grandchild\, the rarity of a leap year\, the calls of birds.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/an-afternoon-of-poetry-robyn-sarah-at-motel-chelsea/
LOCATION:Motel Chelsea\, 1418 Rte 105\, Chelsea\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Don Gillmor at TIFA: Uncovering Hidden Fractures
DESCRIPTION:Don Gillmor\, author of Cherry Beach\, will be appearing at TIFA for the panel ‘Uncovering Hidden Fractures’. Don will be joined by Lilja Sigurðardóttir for a conversation on building atmosphere in modern crime fiction. The event will be moderated by Steven Beattie\, and a book signing will follow. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, June 6 at 2PM. A festival pass is required. \nMore details here. \nGet Cherry Beach here! \nABOUT CHERRY BEACH \nA brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals\, a corrupt police force\, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest. \nWhen two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise\, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated\, and Davis is the department’s only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment\, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer\, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement. \nIntricately plotted and brilliantly layered\, Cherry Beach is a gripping literary crime novel that examines class\, race\, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world. \nABOUT DON GILLMOR \nDon Gillmor is the author of To the River\, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels\, Cherry Beach\, Breaking and Entering\, Long Change\, Mount Pleasant\, and Kanata; a two-volume history of Canada\, Canada: A People’s History; and nine books for children\, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus\, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Saturday Night\, Toronto Life\, the Globe and Mail\, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/don-gillmor-at-tifa-uncovering-hidden-fractures/
LOCATION:Victoria College Chapel\, 91 Charles St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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