Past Events

  • UNMET: stephanie roberts at the Third Thursday Reading Series

    Best Western Cobourg Inn 930 Burnham St, Cobourg, ON, Canada

    stephanie roberts, author of the poetry collection UNMET, will be a reader for Cobourg's Third Thursday Reading Series! stephanie will be joined by Nathanael Jones and Laila Malik for this […]

  • Baldwin, Styron, and Me: AfterWords Spring Foreword

    Park Place Theatre 5480 Point Pleasant Drive, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Mélikah Abdelmoumen, author of Baldwin, Styron, and Me (trans. Catherine Khordoc), will be a part of the AfterWords Spring Foreword event! Mélikah will be in conversation with Vinh Nguyen and host […]

  • On Oil: Don Gillmor at Words Festival

    Join Don Gillmor as he speaks about his new book On Oil, a searching reconsideration of our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil, in this virtual event with the Words […]

  • On Oil: Don Gillmor at Ottawa Writers Festival

    Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Join Don Gillmor as he speaks at the Ottawa Writers Festival about his new book On Oil, in which the journalist and former roughneck considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil. This event, hosted by Jennifer Baker, will take place on Saturday, May 3 at 4PM. Tickets and more details here. Grab On Oil here! ABOUT ON […]

  • On Book Banning: Ira Wells at Ottawa Writers Festival

    Join Ira Wells as he speaks about his new book On Book Banning, a lively, accessible survey of the pressing question of literary censorship in our times of crisis and change, with host Adrian Harewood at the Ottawa Writers Festival. Book will be available for purchase from Perfect Books. This event will take place on […]

  • Baldwin, Styron, and Me: Ottawa Launch

    Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Join author Mélikah Abdelmoumen and translator Catherine Khordoc for the Ottawa launch of Baldwin, Styron, and Me, in partnership with the Ottawa Writers Fest. Host Peter Schneider will sit down with Mélikah […]

  • Graeme Macrae Burnet at MOTIVE Festival

    Emmanuel College 75 Queen's Park Crescent, Rm 119, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Come on out to MOTIVE Festival in Toronto, where Graeme Macrae Burnet will be appearing for the "Small Towns, Big Secrets" panel! Burnet will be discussing his recent book, A Case […]

  • Ira Wells: Defending the Right to Read

    Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning, will be joining the virtual panel "Defending the Right to Read" alongside Authors Against Book Bans members Fin Leary, Padma Venkatraman, and Josh Cook. With Wells' new book as a launching point, the panelists will discuss the current rise of book bans in schools and libraries, the history of previous […]

  • Caroline Adderson at Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

    Rockwood Centre 5511 Shorncliffe Ave, Sechelt, BC, Canada

    Caroline Adderson will be appearing at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts to speak about her latest collection of short stories, A Way to Be Happy! The event will […]

  • Ira Wells: Controversy @ Noon 2025 – Banned Books: What’s Next?

    Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning, will be joining this virtual event held by the Writers Guild of Alberta as a panelist, to discuss book banning in the Canadian literary community, particularly in Alberta where certain books are slated to be pulled from school shelves this Fall. What do these types of bans mean for […]