BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Biblioasis - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.biblioasis.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Biblioasis
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Toronto
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Vancouver
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20270314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20271107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Winnipeg
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20240310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20241103T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20250309T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20251102T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20260308T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20261101T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/St_Johns
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0330
TZOFFSETTO:-0230
TZNAME:NDT
DTSTART:20240310T053000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0230
TZOFFSETTO:-0330
TZNAME:NST
DTSTART:20241103T043000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0330
TZOFFSETTO:-0230
TZNAME:NDT
DTSTART:20250309T053000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0230
TZOFFSETTO:-0330
TZNAME:NST
DTSTART:20251102T043000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0330
TZOFFSETTO:-0230
TZNAME:NDT
DTSTART:20260308T053000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0230
TZOFFSETTO:-0330
TZNAME:NST
DTSTART:20261101T043000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Halifax
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0300
TZNAME:ADT
DTSTART:20250309T060000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0300
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:AST
DTSTART:20251102T050000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0300
TZNAME:ADT
DTSTART:20260308T060000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0300
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:AST
DTSTART:20261101T050000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0300
TZNAME:ADT
DTSTART:20270314T060000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0300
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:AST
DTSTART:20271107T050000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250916T201314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T201314Z
UID:36684-1761850800-1761858000@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way: New York Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Feeney will be launching her new novel Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way at the NYU Glucksman Ireland House in New York! Books will be available for sale and signing courtesy of NYU Bookstore. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, October 30 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way here! \nABOUT LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY \nAn Observer\, Irish Times\, and Sunday Times Ireland Preview Selection \nClaire O’Connor is a promising writer who left the family’s struggling farmstead in western Ireland for London\, swearing never to return. But after the unexpected death of her mother\, she is racked with grief\, and when her father is diagnosed with cancer\, she decides to return home to care for him\, destroying everything she’d so carefully built up in the process. The pandemic follows\, and Claire falls into a comfortable routine\, one increasingly shaped by a growing obsession: the lives of the 20-something trad wives she discovers on social media. When Tom\, her lost London love\, unexpectedly shows up the next town over\, her anxieties and obsessions collide\, the resulting conflict forcing Claire and her brothers to finally deal with their family’s historic trauma—a trauma whose evidence is carved into the beams of the family home and the stone floors upon which their ancestors bled. \nRanging through recent Irish history\, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is Elaine Feeney’s most ambitious novel to date\, a work of literary and cultural exorcism and a profound exploration of family\, history\, violence\, and hope. \nABOUT ELAINE FEENEY \nElaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel\, As You Were\, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award and won the Kate O’Brien Award\, the McKitterick Prize\, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise\, and her short story “Sojourn” was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories\, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Her work appears widely in The Moth\, The Paris Review\, The Stinging Fly\, Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Feeney lectures at the University of Galway.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/let-me-go-mad-new-york/
LOCATION:Glucksman Ireland House\, 1 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9781771967044_FC-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251104T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251015T201221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T201221Z
UID:36966-1762282800-1762290000@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Precarious: Windsor Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the Windsor launch of Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello Di Cintio. Marcello will be reading from his latest book followed by an audience Q&A at Biblioasis Bookshop\, where books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Tuesday\, November 4 at 7PM. \nGrab a copy of Precarious here! \nABOUT PRECARIOUS \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/precarious-windsor-launch/
LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/9781771966597_FC-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250916T202047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T133428Z
UID:36687-1762369200-1762376400@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Precarious: Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the Toronto launch of Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello Di Cintio. Marcello will be in conversation with Zoë Newman and Vannina Sztainbok. The event is presented by Another Story Bookshop\, Talking Precarity Podcast\, and Biblioasis; and sponsored by the Workers Action Centre. \nThe launch will take place on Wednesday\, November 5 at 7PM. The event is free\, and you can RSVP on Eventbrite. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Precarious here! \nABOUT PRECARIOUS \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/precarious-calgary-launch/
LOCATION:Workers Action Centre\, 720 Spadina Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2T9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/precarious-toronto.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T173750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T141447Z
UID:36757-1762453800-1762459200@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Mélikah Abdelmoumen in Conversation with Madeleine Thien
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends! Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. by Catherine Khordoc) will be in conversation with Madeleine Thien and Vinh Nguyen at Queen Books. The event\, “Migration\, Friendships\, and the Politics of Writing” will be hosted by Thy Phu\, and is sponsored by the Critical Refugee and Migration Studies Network of Canada. \nThe conversation will take place on Thursday\, November 6 at 6:30PM. \nDetails here. \nGrab Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me here! \nABOUT BALDWIN\, STYRON\, AND ME \nAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity\, race\, and censorship. \nIn 1961\, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. The two wrote during the day\, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations\, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write\, in first person\, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim\, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968\, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community. \nDecades later\, the controversy around cultural appropriation\, identity\, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me\, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers’ surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today’s politics and media. Considering questions of identity\, race\, equity\, and the often contentious public debates about these topics\, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement. \nABOUT MELIKAH ABDELMOUMEN \nMélikah Abdelmoumen was born in Chicoutimi in 1972. She lived in Lyon\, France\, from 2005 to 2017. She holds a PhD in literary studies from the Université de Montréal and has published many articles\, short stories\, novels\, and essays\, including Les désastrées (2013)\, Douze ans en France (2018)\, and Petite-Ville (2024). She worked as an editor with the Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature in Montreal until 2021. She was the editor-in-chief of Lettres québécoises\, a Québec literary magazine\, from 2021 to 2024. Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me is her tenth book (and the first to be translated).
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/melikah-abdelmoumen-in-conversation-with-madeleine-thien/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Abdelmoumen_QueenBooks.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T185740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T200920Z
UID:36771-1762459200-1762466400@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends\, join us for the launch of Ray Robertson’s Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)! Ray will be reading from his new book\, followed by a performance from Toronto-based musical duo Staig and Billings. The event will be moderated by Alan Zweig. \nThe launch will take place at The Mezz on Thursday\, November 6 at 7PM. \nPreorder Dust here! \nABOUT DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS) \n“Robertson offers the whole picture\, warts and all. In doing so\, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast Magazine \nIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)\, Ray Robertson digs deep\, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative\, influential\, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk\, blues to gospel\, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous\, to the forgotten\, to the barely known\, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s obsession with the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes. \nABOUT RAY ROBERTSON \nRay Robertson is the author of nine novels\, six collections of non-fiction\, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. He contributed liner notes to three Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45\, the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 boxed set\, and the From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Born and raised in Chatham\, Ontario\, he lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/dust-more-lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:The Mezz\, 1546 Queen St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M6R 1A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Rays-Toronto-Launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251108T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251108T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T181858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T181916Z
UID:36761-1762608600-1762614000@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Mélikah Abdelmoumen at Wild Writers Festival: Telling Other People’s Stories
DESCRIPTION:Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. by Catherine Khordoc) will be at Wild Writers Literary Festival\, for the discussion “Telling Other People’s Stories.” Mélikah will be joined in conversation by Sadiqa de Meijer\, with moderator Lara El Mekaui\, to explore the power and responsibility that come with telling stories that are not our own. \nThrough their thoughtful and nuanced work\, they examine the complexities of voice\, identity\, and empathy\, challenging assumptions about belonging and representation. Don’t miss this engaging conversation about how sharing “other people’s stories” can foster understanding\, connection\, and a reimagined sense of community \nThe even will take place on Saturday\, November 8 at 1:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me here! \nABOUT BALDWIN\, STYRON\, AND ME \nAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity\, race\, and censorship. \nIn 1961\, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. The two wrote during the day\, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations\, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write\, in first person\, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim\, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968\, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community. \nDecades later\, the controversy around cultural appropriation\, identity\, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me\, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers’ surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today’s politics and media. Considering questions of identity\, race\, equity\, and the often contentious public debates about these topics\, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement. \nABOUT MELIKAH ABDELMOUMEN \nMélikah Abdelmoumen was born in Chicoutimi in 1972. She lived in Lyon\, France\, from 2005 to 2017. She holds a PhD in literary studies from the Université de Montréal and has published many articles\, short stories\, novels\, and essays\, including Les désastrées (2013)\, Douze ans en France (2018)\, and Petite-Ville (2024). She worked as an editor with the Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature in Montreal until 2021. She was the editor-in-chief of Lettres québécoises\, a Québec literary magazine\, from 2021 to 2024. Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me is her tenth book (and the first to be translated).
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/melikah-abdelmoumen-wild-writers-fest-1/
LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Other-Peoples-Stories-v2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251109T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T183224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T184031Z
UID:36767-1762682400-1762689600@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Mélikah Abdelmoumen at Wild Writers Festival: The Literary Brunch
DESCRIPTION:Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. by Catherine Khordoc) will be at Wild Writers Literary Festival\, for their “Literary Brunch!” Mélikah will be joined by fellow writers Vinh Nguyen and Susan Swan\, with moderator Sarah Scott\, discuss their latest works\, writing process\, and lives as writers. Intimate\, casual\, and engaging—an ideal way to spend a Sunday morning. \nThe Wild Writers Brunch Buffet Includes: \n\nScrambled Eggs with Chives\nBacon and sausage\nHash Browns\nCinnamon French Toast\nSeasonal Fresh Fruit\nFreshly Baked Assorted Breakfast Pastries\nChilled Assorted Juices\nCoffee & Tea\n\nThe event will take place on Sunday\, November 9 at 10AM\, with brunch served at 10:15. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me here! \nABOUT BALDWIN\, STYRON\, AND ME \nAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity\, race\, and censorship. \nIn 1961\, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. The two wrote during the day\, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations\, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write\, in first person\, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim\, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968\, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community. \nDecades later\, the controversy around cultural appropriation\, identity\, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me\, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers’ surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today’s politics and media. Considering questions of identity\, race\, equity\, and the often contentious public debates about these topics\, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement. \nABOUT MELIKAH ABDELMOUMEN \nMélikah Abdelmoumen was born in Chicoutimi in 1972. She lived in Lyon\, France\, from 2005 to 2017. She holds a PhD in literary studies from the Université de Montréal and has published many articles\, short stories\, novels\, and essays\, including Les désastrées (2013)\, Douze ans en France (2018)\, and Petite-Ville (2024). She worked as an editor with the Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature in Montreal until 2021. She was the editor-in-chief of Lettres québécoises\, a Québec literary magazine\, from 2021 to 2024. Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me is her tenth book (and the first to be translated).
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/melikah-abdelmoumen-wild-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Grey Silo Golf Course\, 2001 University Ave E\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2K 4K4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Literary-Brunch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251113T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T190015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T190044Z
UID:36774-1763064000-1763071200@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Hamilton Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Hamilton for the launch of Ray Robertson’s Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)! Ray will be reading from his new book\, followed by a performance from Toronto-based musical duo Staig and Billings. The event will be hosted by bookstore owner Tim Hanna\, and books will be available for sale and signing courtesy of The City & The City Bookstore. \nThe event will take place at The Capitol on Thursday\, November 13 at 8PM. More details TK. \nPreorder Dust here! \nABOUT DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS) \n“Robertson offers the whole picture\, warts and all. In doing so\, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast Magazine \nIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)\, Ray Robertson digs deep\, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative\, influential\, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk\, blues to gospel\, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous\, to the forgotten\, to the barely known\, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s obsession with the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes. \nABOUT RAY ROBERTSON \nRay Robertson is the author of nine novels\, six collections of non-fiction\, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. He contributed liner notes to three Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45\, the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 boxed set\, and the From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Born and raised in Chatham\, Ontario\, he lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/dust-more-lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars-hamilton-launch/
LOCATION:The Capitol\, 973 King St E\, Hamilton\, ON\, L8M 1C3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/9781771966559_FC.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251117T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251008T202733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T202733Z
UID:36920-1763404200-1763409600@www.biblioasis.com
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/VoR_launch.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251017T185048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T190109Z
UID:36992-1763492400-1763499600@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Stories: Vancouver Launch
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver friends: come on out for a night of literary fun\, as we celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Stories 2026! Guest editor Zsuzsi Gartner\, along with several writers featured in the anthology\, will be reading from their work. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Upstart & Crow. \nThe launch will take place on Tuesday\, November 18 at 7PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Stories 2026 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2026 \n“Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country.”—Open Book \nSelected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner\, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction published over the previous year. Geminis are recruited to fight a war in space; an awkward Christmas dinner escalates around the roadkill main course; an interactive fiction game set in early Quebec becomes devastating and unnervingly strange for the player. These fifteen stories draw together an expressive range of characters and narratives\, and appeal to both longstanding readers and those looking for an entry point into Canadian literature. \nFeaturing: \nShashi Bhat • Julie Bouchard\, translated by Arielle Aaronson • Randy Boyagoda • Grant Buday • Petra Chambers • Sophie Crocker • Bill Gaston • Evan J • Aaron Kreuter • Alex Leslie • Erin MacNair • D.F. McCourt • Rishi Midha • Kaitlin Ruether • Margaret Sweatman
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-stories-2026-vancouver-launch/
LOCATION:Upstart & Crow\, 1387 Railspur Alley\, Granville Island
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/bc2-cover.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251015T201634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145814Z
UID:36924-1763577000-1763582400@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a night of poetry and fun\, as we celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2026! Series editor Anita Lahey\, along with several local poets featured in the anthology—Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi\, Steve McOrmond\, Emily Kedar\, Richard Greene\, Susan Glickman\, Ronna Bloom\, and Puneet Dutt—will be reading from their work at Queen Books. Copies will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Wednesday\, November 19 at 6:30PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2026 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2026 \nSelected by editor Mary Dalton\, the 2026 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in the past year. \nFeaturing introductions by Mary Dalton and series editor Anita Lahey\, Best Canadian Poetry 2026 offers a collection of brief but impactful glimpses into our current literary landscape\, that expands our worldview and continues in the series tradition of asking: What constitutes a great poem? \nFeaturing: \nJohn Wall Barger • Ronna Bloom • Nicholas Bradley • Petra Chambers • Carolina Corcoran • Kayla Czaga • Danielle Devereaux • Irina Dumitrescu • Puneet Dutt • Darrell Epp • Susan Glickman • Ariel Gordon • Jennifer Gossoo • Sue Goyette • Richard Greene • Glenn Hayes • Henry Heavyshield • Dave Hickey • Nancy Huggett • Kevin Irie • Emily Kedar • Conor Kerr • Evelyn Lau • Sylvia Legris • Steve McOrmond • Estlin McPhee • M.W. Miller • Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi • George Moore • Paul Moorehead • A.F. Moritz • Megan Morrison • Erín Moure • Cassandra Myers • Shane Neilson • Nofel • David O’Meara • John O’Neill • Michael Ondaatje • Craig Francis Power • John Reibetanz • Ozayr Saloojee • Vivek Sharma • Sue Sinclair • Karen Solie • Misha Solomon • Susan White • Erin Wilson • Jaeyun Yoo • Patricia Young
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/BCP26-Queen-Books.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251114T172726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145715Z
UID:37055-1764010800-1764018000@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Stories: Montreal Launch
DESCRIPTION:Montreal readers: come on out for a night of short fiction\, as we celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Stories 2026! Guest editor Zsuzsi Gartner\, along with several local writers featured in the anthology\, will be reading from their work. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of De Stiil. \nThe launch will take place on Monday\, November 24 at 7PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Stories 2026 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2026 \n“Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country.”—Open Book \nSelected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner\, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction published over the previous year. Geminis are recruited to fight a war in space; an awkward Christmas dinner escalates around the roadkill main course; an interactive fiction game set in early Quebec becomes devastating and unnervingly strange for the player. These fifteen stories draw together an expressive range of characters and narratives\, and appeal to both longstanding readers and those looking for an entry point into Canadian literature. \nFeaturing: \nShashi Bhat • Julie Bouchard\, translated by Arielle Aaronson • Randy Boyagoda • Grant Buday • Petra Chambers • Sophie Crocker • Bill Gaston • Evan J • Aaron Kreuter • Alex Leslie • Erin MacNair • D.F. McCourt • Rishi Midha • Kaitlin Ruether • Margaret Sweatman
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-stories-2026-montreal-launch/
LOCATION:De Stiil\, 351 Avenue Duluth E\, Montreal\, QC\, H2W 1J3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/BCS-MTL-Launch-1-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20251125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20251125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T193638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T193638Z
UID:36783-1764072000-1764079200@www.biblioasis.com
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/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/9781771966511_FC-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Winnipeg Free Press Book Club":MAILTO:bookclub@winnipegfreepress.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251017T190012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145604Z
UID:36994-1764183600-1764190800@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Stories: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends: come on out for a night of short fiction\, as we celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Stories 2026! Guest editor Zsuzsi Gartner\, along with several writers featured in the anthology\, will be reading from their work. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Queen Books. \nThe launch will take place on Wednesday\, November 26 at 7PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Stories 2026 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2026 \n“Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country.”—Open Book \nSelected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner\, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction published over the previous year. Geminis are recruited to fight a war in space; an awkward Christmas dinner escalates around the roadkill main course; an interactive fiction game set in early Quebec becomes devastating and unnervingly strange for the player. These fifteen stories draw together an expressive range of characters and narratives\, and appeal to both longstanding readers and those looking for an entry point into Canadian literature. \nFeaturing: \nShashi Bhat • Julie Bouchard\, translated by Arielle Aaronson • Randy Boyagoda • Grant Buday • Petra Chambers • Sophie Crocker • Bill Gaston • Evan J • Aaron Kreuter • Alex Leslie • Erin MacNair • D.F. McCourt • Rishi Midha • Kaitlin Ruether • Margaret Sweatman
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-stories-2026-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TO-BCS-Launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251127T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251015T203654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145519Z
UID:36978-1764270000-1764277200@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Windsor Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Windsor for the launch of Ray Robertson’s Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)! Ray will be reading from his new book\, followed by a performance from Toronto-based musical duo Staig and Billings. \nThe launch will take place at Biblioasis Bookshop on Thursday\, November 27 at 7PM. \nPreorder Dust here! \nABOUT DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS) \n“Robertson offers the whole picture\, warts and all. In doing so\, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast Magazine \nIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)\, Ray Robertson digs deep\, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative\, influential\, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk\, blues to gospel\, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous\, to the forgotten\, to the barely known\, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s obsession with the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes. \nABOUT RAY ROBERTSON \nRay Robertson is the author of nine novels\, six collections of non-fiction\, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. He contributed liner notes to three Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45\, the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 boxed set\, and the From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Born and raised in Chatham\, Ontario\, he lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/dust-more-lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars-windsor-launch/
LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Dust-Biblioasis-Launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251017T190425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145419Z
UID:36997-1764356400-1764363600@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Chatham Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Chatham for the launch of Ray Robertson’s Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)! Ray will be reading from his new book\, followed by a performance from Toronto-based musical duo Staig and Billings. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place at Studio One (Chatham Cultural Centre) on Friday\, November 28 at 7PM. \nPreorder Dust here! \nABOUT DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS) \n“Robertson offers the whole picture\, warts and all. In doing so\, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast Magazine \nIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)\, Ray Robertson digs deep\, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative\, influential\, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk\, blues to gospel\, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous\, to the forgotten\, to the barely known\, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s obsession with the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes. \nABOUT RAY ROBERTSON \nRay Robertson is the author of nine novels\, six collections of non-fiction\, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. He contributed liner notes to three Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45\, the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 boxed set\, and the From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Born and raised in Chatham\, Ontario\, he lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/dust-more-lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars-chatham-launch/
LOCATION:Studio One\, 75 William St N\, Chatham\, ON\, N7M 4L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Dust-Chatham-launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/St_Johns:20251130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/St_Johns:20251130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251015T202239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T145247Z
UID:36971-1764531000-1764536400@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry: St John's Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a night of poetry and fun\, as we celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2026! Guest editor Mary Dalton\, along with several poets featured in the anthology—Danielle Devereaux\, Craig Power\, Paul Moorehead\, Susan White\, and Richard Greene—will be reading from their work at the Ship Pub. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Riddle Fence. \nThe launch will take place on Sunday\, November 30 at 7:30PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2026 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2026 \nSelected by editor Mary Dalton\, the 2026 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in the past year. \nFeaturing introductions by Mary Dalton and series editor Anita Lahey\, Best Canadian Poetry 2026 offers a collection of brief but impactful glimpses into our current literary landscape\, that expands our worldview and continues in the series tradition of asking: What constitutes a great poem? \nFeaturing: \nJohn Wall Barger • Ronna Bloom • Nicholas Bradley • Petra Chambers • Carolina Corcoran • Kayla Czaga • Danielle Devereaux • Irina Dumitrescu • Puneet Dutt • Darrell Epp • Susan Glickman • Ariel Gordon • Jennifer Gossoo • Sue Goyette • Richard Greene • Glenn Hayes • Henry Heavyshield • Dave Hickey • Nancy Huggett • Kevin Irie • Emily Kedar • Conor Kerr • Evelyn Lau • Sylvia Legris • Steve McOrmond • Estlin McPhee • M.W. Miller • Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi • George Moore • Paul Moorehead • A.F. Moritz • Megan Morrison • Erín Moure • Cassandra Myers • Shane Neilson • Nofel • David O’Meara • John O’Neill • Michael Ondaatje • Craig Francis Power • John Reibetanz • Ozayr Saloojee • Vivek Sharma • Sue Sinclair • Karen Solie • Misha Solomon • Susan White • Erin Wilson • Jaeyun Yoo • Patricia Young
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-st-johns-launch/
LOCATION:The Ship Pub\, 265 Duckworth St\, St John's\, NL\, A1C 1G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WEB-Holiday-Launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20251114T190904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T201243Z
UID:37118-1765479600-1765486800@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry: Combined Vancouver Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a special combined launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2025 and 2026! Hosted by last year’s 2025 editor Aislinn Hunter\, several local poets featured in the anthologies will be reading from their work at Upstart & Crow. Copies will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Wednesday\, December 11 at 7PM. \nGrab Best Canadian Poetry 2026 here! \nGrab Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nCheck out the full set of Essays\, Stories\, and Poetry here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2026 \nSelected by editor Mary Dalton\, the 2026 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2024. \nFeaturing introductions by Mary Dalton and series editor Anita Lahey\, Best Canadian Poetry 2026 offers a collection of brief but impactful glimpses into our current literary landscape\, that expands our worldview and continues in the series tradition of asking: What constitutes a great poem? \nFeaturing: \nJohn Wall Barger • Ronna Bloom • Nicholas Bradley • Petra Chambers • Carolina Corcoran • Kayla Czaga • Danielle Devereaux • Irina Dumitrescu • Puneet Dutt • Darrell Epp • Susan Glickman • Ariel Gordon • Jennifer Gossoo • Sue Goyette • Richard Greene • Glenn Hayes • Henry Heavyshield • Dave Hickey • Nancy Huggett • Kevin Irie • Emily Kedar • Conor Kerr • Evelyn Lau • Sylvia Legris • Steve McOrmond • Estlin McPhee • M.W. Miller • Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi • George Moore • Paul Moorehead • A.F. Moritz • Megan Morrison • Erín Moure • Cassandra Myers • Shane Neilson • Nofel • David O’Meara • John O’Neill • Michael Ondaatje • Craig Francis Power • John Reibetanz • Ozayr Saloojee • Vivek Sharma • Sue Sinclair • Karen Solie • Misha Solomon • Susan White • Erin Wilson • Jaeyun Yoo • Patricia Young \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2025 \nSelected by editor Aislinn Hunter\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nHollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Ronna Bloom • Alison Braid-Fernandez • Robert Bringhurst • Emily Cann • Anne Carson • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Kayla Czaga • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Kate Genevieve • Susan Gillis • Sue Goyette • Catherine Graham • Henry Heavyshield • Gerald Hill • Alexander Hollenberg • Kim June Johnson • Eve Joseph • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • D. A. Lockhart • Fareh Malik • David Martin • Domenica Martinello • Cassidy McFadzean • Carmelita McGrath • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Catherine Owen • Molly Peacock • Miranda Pearson • Pauline Peters • Amanda Proctor • Shannon Quinn • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Anne Simpson • Carolyn Smart • Karen Solie • Catherine St. Denis • Owen Torrey • Michael Trussler • Sara Truuvert • Rob Winger • Jaeyun Yoo
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-combined-vancouver-launch/
LOCATION:Upstart & Crow\, 1387 Railspur Alley\, Granville Island
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/BEST-CANADIAN-POETRY-CELEBRATION-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260324T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260324T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T192340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T192340Z
UID:37688-1774384200-1774389600@www.biblioasis.com
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/9781771966863_FC-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T194245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T194245Z
UID:37692-1774569600-1774655999@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series: Garth Martens
DESCRIPTION:Garth Martens\, author of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems\, will be a featured poet for the Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series! Presented by Simon Fraser University\, the reading will take place on Friday\, March 27. \nTime and more details to come. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/off-the-shelf-poetry-reading-series-garth-martens/
LOCATION:ON
CATEGORIES:Reading,Reading Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9781771967082_FC.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260410T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T194844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T144209Z
UID:37695-1775847600-1775854800@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Planet Earth Poetry Series: Garth Martens
DESCRIPTION:Garth Martens\, author of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems\, will be reading for the Planet Earth Poetry Series! \nHosted by Kyeren Regehr\, the reading will take place at Russell Books on Friday\, April 10 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/planet-earth-poetry-series-garth-martens/
LOCATION:Russell Books\, 100-747 Fort St\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 3E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading,Reading Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9781771967082_FC.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T200857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T144620Z
UID:37704-1776193200-1776200400@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE: Kelowna Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Kelowna for the launch of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems by Garth Martens! Garth will be joined by fellow writers Lesley-Anne Evans and Ruth Daniel for the event\, hosted by UBC-O professor Emily Murphy. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Mosaic Books. \nThe launch will take place at the Benvoulin Church on Tuesday\, April 14 at 7PM. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/martens-kelowna-launch/
LOCATION:Benvoulin Church\, 2279 Benvoulin Rd\, Kelowna\, BC\, V1W 2C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/garth-kelowna-event-100.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260408T145158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T145158Z
UID:37836-1776362400-1776369600@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:SMASH & GRAB: Fredericton Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Fredericton for the launch of Mark Anthony Jarman’s new story collection\, Smash & Grab! The launch will take place at Gallery on Queen\, and books will be available for sale and signing from Westminster Bookmark. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, April 16 at 6PM. \nGrab a copy of Smash & Grab here! \nABOUT SMASH & GRAB \n“A Canadian master of the form.”—Gregory Cowles\, New York Times \nA former military policeman\, a veterinarian\, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part of a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. An Irish woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. Two paramedics try to live and not burn out while dealing with so much death. A man on holiday in Venice is stalked by a pickpocket. A heartsick astronaut finds love on the moon. \nIn Smash & Grab Mark Anthony Jarman offers up a mischievous medley of stories that blur the lines between the real and the imagined. Continuing to chronicle the lives of the wayward and unlucky\, it confirms its author as one of the most adventurous guides to the absurdity of twenty-first century existence. \nABOUT MARK ANTHONY JARMAN \nMark Anthony Jarman is the author of Burn Man\, Touch Anywhere to Begin\, Czech Techno\, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa\, My White Planet\, 19 Knives\, New Orleans Is Sinking\, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern\, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. He is co-editor of a new literary journal CAMEL\, and edited Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya!\, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in Canada\, the US\, Europe\, and Asia\, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, a Yaddo fellow\, has taught at the University of Victoria\, the Banff Centre for the Arts\, and the University of New Brunswick. Burn Man was a New York Times Editor’s Choice in 2024.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/smash-grab-fredericton-launch/
LOCATION:Gallery on Queen\, 406 Queen St\, Fredericton\, NB\, E3B 1B6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Jarman-Fredericton-Launch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260418T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T195847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T145549Z
UID:37700-1776538800-1776546000@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:Marcello Di Cintio at Polar Beak Books
DESCRIPTION:Marcello Di Cintio\, author of Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers\, will be appearing at Polar Peak Books! Marcello will be in conversation with fellow writer Angie Abdou for the event hosted by bookstore co-owner Melanie Jeannotte. There will also be an audience Q&A\, book sales and signing\, and a cash bar. \nThe talk will take place on Saturday\, April 18 at 7PM. \nRSVP and more details here. \nGrab a copy of Precarious here! \nABOUT PRECARIOUS \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-at-polar-beak-books/
LOCATION:Polar Peak Books\, 482 2nd Ave.\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Marcello-Di-Cintio-in-Fernie.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260429T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260429T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260408T162857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T162857Z
UID:37844-1777482000-1777489200@www.biblioasis.com
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 5PM 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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Oblivious-Hold-The-Date-6.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260302T205624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T165834Z
UID:37709-1777575600-1777582800@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE: Victoria Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Victoria for the launch of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems by Garth Martens! \nThe launch will take place at Caffe Fantastico on Thursday\, April 30 at 7PM. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/martens-victoria-launch/
LOCATION:Caffe Fantastico\, 965 Kings Rd\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0C4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/garth-victoria-IGpost-100.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20250924T191008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T210405Z
UID:36778-1778180400-1778187600@www.biblioasis.com
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/adderson-fernie.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040928
CREATED:20260410T162755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T162755Z
UID:37855-1778180400-1778187600@www.biblioasis.com
SUMMARY:CHERRY BEACH and ON SPORTS: Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Toronto readers! Join us for the double book launch of Don Gillmor’s Cherry Beach and David Macfarlane’s On Sports. The launch\, hosted by our intrepid sales coordinator Hilary\, will be held at The Supermarket\, and include a reading\, conversation and Q&A\, and books will be for sale and signing from Ben McNally. \nThe launch takes place on Thursday\, May 7 at 7PM EST. \nGrab Cherry Beach here! \nGrab On Sports 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. \nABOUT ON SPORTS \nWhat are sports\, really? What do we love about them? And what\, in our digital age\, have they become? \nOn Sports reads like a conversation between friends at the ballpark in those golden days before the kiss cam and college co-eds with T-shirt cannons spoiled the fun; a book that feels like the sun on your forehead and the breeze in your hair\, beer and laughter on your lips; a book that celebrates communion and friendship and the beauty of these games—whether it be baseball or football  or soccer or tennis or cricket—that we’ve designed to distract ourselves from the end of the world. It’s about what 7Up tastes like when drunk from the Grey Cup\, how much work it takes for talent to shine\, and the near impossibility of language to properly capture athletic excellence. It’s about the beauty of good sports copy\, the ephemerality of even the biggest sports story\, and how sport remains perpetually powered by the eleven-year-old in all of us. It’s a book about rediscovering the spirit of sport\, before online gambling and the manufactured spectacle of today’s professional sports suffocates the last of it; and it’s about where that spirit today is best found. \nABOUT DAVID MACFARLANE \nDavid Macfarlane‘s family memoir\, The Danger Tree\, was described by Christopher Hitchens as “one of the finest and most intriguing miniature elegies that I have read in many a year.” Macfarlane’s novel\, Summer Gone\, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Based on The Danger Tree\, “The Door You Came In\,” a two-man show (co-written and performed with Douglas Cameron) has been produced\, to acclaim\, from St. John’s\, Newfoundland\, to Stratford\, Ontario. Macfarlane lives in Toronto with his wife\, the designer\, Janice Lindsay.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/cherry-beach-and-on-sports-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:The Supermarket\, 268 Augusta Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5T 2L9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.biblioasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/macfarlane-gillmor-event.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR