Events for March 24 - October 16, 2025

  • UNMET: stephanie roberts at Ottawa VerseFest

    The Manx 370 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    stephanie roberts, author of the forthcoming poetry collection UNMET, will be at the Ottawa VerseFest! stephanie will be part of the Plan 99 Reading Series, and will be joined by fellow […]

  • 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 Fazeela Jiwa. Books will be available courtesy of King's Co-op Books. The event will take place at Park Place Theatre on Saturday, April 26 at […]

  • Lisa Alward at the Frye Festival

    Aberdeen Cultural Centre 140 rue Botsford, Moncton, NB, Canada

    Come on out to this year's Frye Festival, where Lisa Alward, author of Cocktail, will be doing a Flash Frye reading of the collection for the panel 'Who Do You Think […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Steven Beattie at the Books & Brews Book Fair

    Jobsite Brewery 45 Cambria Street, Stratford, ON, Canada

    Join Best Canadian Stories 2025 editor Steven Beattie at the Books & Brews Book Fair in Stratford! Beattie will be selling copies of the anthology at the fair, joined by a fun assortment of other small presses. The book fair will take place at the Jobsite Brewery on Saturday, July 5 starting at 12PM. More about Best […]

  • Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Workshop

    Denman Island BC, Canada

    Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) will be hosting a workshop at the Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival! The workshop, "Ending It All" will explore what makes a story ending successful, looking at planned vs. discovered endings, common pitfalls, and how plot and character arcs guide satisfying conclusions. The workshop will take place […]

  • Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Main Stage Discussion

    Denman Island BC, Canada

    Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) will be joining the discussion "Diving into Darkness to find our humanity/joy/compassion" on the Main Stage, alongside fellow writers Sarah Leavitt and Fiona Tinwei Lam. The discussion will take place on Saturday, July 19 at 7:30PM. More details here. Grab a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! ABOUT A […]

  • 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 […]

  • Mark Bourrie at Eden Mills Festival

    Eden Mills Writers' Festival 19 Cedar Street, Eden Mills, Ontario, Canada

    Join Mark Bourrie (author of Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre) as he speaks at the Eden Mills Writers Festival on the panel "The Kim Lang Set: True North Unsettled: […]