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SUMMARY:Booktoberfest: Biblioasis Bash in Toronto!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Toronto as we celebrate with six of our authors and their 2025 releases! Mélikah Abdelmoumen (Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me)\, stephanie roberts (UNMET)\, Don Gillmor (On Oil)\, Ira Wells (On Book Banning)\, Elise Levine (Big of You: Stories)\, and Russell Smith (Self Care) will all be reading from their new books\, along with an audience Q&A and discussion. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place at The Supermarket on Wednesday\, October 1 at 7PM. More details here! \nGet Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me here! \nGet UNMET here! \nGet On Oil here! \nGet On Book Banning here! \nGet Big of You here! \nGet Self Care here!
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/biblioasis-bash-in-toronto/
LOCATION:The Supermarket\, 268 Augusta Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5T 2L9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Moncton:20250928T160000
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at 'The Catch-Up' Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of Hello\, Horse\, will be joining ‘The Catch-Up’ Reading Series hosted by Fawn Parker. Richard will be joined in conversation by Douglas Walbourne-Gough\, and will be reading from his collection of short stories. \nThe event will take place at Westminster Books on Sunday\, September 28 at 3PM. \nMore details here. \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-catch-up/
LOCATION:Westminster Books\, 88 York St\, Fredericton\, NB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading,Reading Series
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at Fog Lit Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of Hello\, Horse\, at the Fog Lit Festival\, where he’ll be hosting the Opening Reception & Literary Trivia! \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, September 25 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-fog-lit-festival/
LOCATION:BMO Theatre\, 112 Princess Street\, Saint John\, NB\, E2L 1K4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at the Attic Owl Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of Hello\, Horse\, will be reading at the Attic Owl Reading Series in Moncton! The event is hosted by Kayla Geitzler\, and there is an Open Mic Night portion to the event as well. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, September 24. Doors open at 5PM and when you arrive\, ask for the sign up sheet! Then\, feel free to get a tasty meal\, beverage or snack from Cafe C’est La Vie. The event will get underway around 5:30PM and continue until everyone has read or 7PM\, whichever comes first. \nMore details here. \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-attic-owl-reading-series/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Reading
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SUMMARY:Steven Heighton's Sacred Rage: Kingston Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Steven Heighton’s second posthumous story collection\, Sacred Rage\, will be included in the Kingston Writers Fest event\, “Bushwacked by Inspiration: Short Stories.” Excerpts from Sacred Rage will be read by Sarah Tsiang\, who will also be joined for the event by Catherine Bush\, Deepa Rajagopalan\, and Jamal Saeed in a discussion of writing short-form fiction\, and its challenges and particular satisfactions. \nThe event will take place in the Rideau Room (Kingston Marriott) on Friday\, September 19 at 7PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Sacred Rage here! \nABOUT SACRED RAGE \n“A writer only feels like a writer when in the act. And the will\, I said\, is never enough . . . Where does inspiration\, that sacred rage\, originate? Maybe it’s just a matter of stubbornly starting something new and writing your way into the slot.”—Steven Heighton \nIn the years before his unexpected death\, Steven Heighton wrote to his longtime editor John Metcalf to say that he understood that the short story marked his most important contribution to literature\, and that “after the novels\, rereading and writing short stories again felt like returning home.” In the fifteen stories taken from across his four collections\, Sacred Rage offers us Heighton as the moral explorer of the global suburbs\, as chronicler of our innermost stories of love and fear\, sleeping and waking\, of a rebel “unabashedly devoted to the old pursuit\,” as he once called it\, “of truth and beauty.” These are stories of grace and the lack of it; of elegy and requiem; of hope and care in a world where these seem increasingly alien\, stories by one of our most sharp-eyed and generous writers\, whether you’re discovering them for the first time\, or once again. \nABOUT STEVEN HEIGHTON \nSteven Heighton (1961–2022) was a writer and musician. His twenty previous books include the novels Afterlands\, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice\, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late\, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/steven-heightons-sacred-rage-kingston-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Kingston Marriott\, 285 King St E\, Kingston\, ON\, K7L 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Ira Wells at Kingston Writers Fest: You Can't Read That!
DESCRIPTION:Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning\, will be speaking at the Kingston Writers Fest event “You Can’t Read That!” Ira will be joined by politics and culture critic David Moscrop in a robust discussion of public and private book banning. Is it wrong to embrace the books of people who do things we abhor? What is ‘equity-based weeding’? How can we know the true scope of book banning when according to a study by the American Library Association 82 to 97 percent of all library challenges go unreported? Do we have a national\, communal history? If so\, how can we best protect it? \nThe event will take place in the Limestone City Ballroom (Kingston Marriott) on Friday\, September 19 at 3:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab a copy of On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ira-wells-kingston-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Kingston Marriott\, 285 King St E\, Kingston\, ON\, K7L 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:stephanie roberts at the Planet Earth Poetry Series: PEP in the Afternoon
DESCRIPTION:stephanie roberts\, author of the poetry collection UNMET\, will be reading at the Planet Earth Poetry Series! Doors at 1:30pm\, with sign-up for open mic. \nThe event will take place on Friday\, September 19 at 2PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/stephanie-roberts-at-planet-earth-2/
LOCATION:New Horizons Centre\, 234 Menzies St.\, James Bay\, BC
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250918T210000
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SUMMARY:Self Care: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the Toronto launch of Russell Smith’s new novel\, Self Care! Russell will be in conversation with Lydia Perovic and reading from the book\, and copies will be made available for sale and signing by Another Story bookshop. \nThe launch will take place at the Society Clubhouse on Thursday\, September 18 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder a copy of Self Care here! \nABOUT SELF CARE \nAn electric examination of women and men\, sex and love\, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness. \nBetween writing a weekly column for The Hype Report and managing her mood stabilizers\, Gloria navigates a series of quasi-relationships while commiserating with her best friend about dating apps and dick pics\, married men and questionable boundaries. But when she makes a glib pass at Daryn\, a stranger on a subway platform crowded with young anti-immigration protesters\, and finds him waiting for her outside her health club a couple of days later\, a surprising curiosity leads her not to consider a restraining order\, but to talk to him. \nClaiming she wants to interview him for an article on the incel movement\, Gloria meets Daryn for coffee and soon invites him back to her apartment—where his earnestness and painfully restrained desire inspire her to dominate him sexually. As their physical relationship intensifies\, so does their emotional connection\, and Gloria can’t shake the sense that she’s headed in a dangerous direction. \nAn electric examination of sex and love\, self-loathing\, and twenty-first century loneliness\, Self Care is a devastating novel about women and men\, what they want and what they say they want\, and the violent tension between the two. \nABOUT RUSSELL SMITH \nRussell Smith is the author of twelve previous books of fiction\, nonfiction\, and translation. His fiction has been nominated for every major Canadian award\, including the Giller Prize\, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Amazon First Novel Award. A  journalist and cultural commentator\, his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Review of Books\, the Globe and Mail\, The Walrus\, and elsewhere. An acquiring editor at Dundurn Press\, Smith lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/self-care-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:The Society Clubhouse\, 967 College Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M6H 1A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:We're Somewhere Else Now: Montreal Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the publication of Robyn Sarah’s new poetry collection We’re Somewhere Else Now! Robyn will be reading from her new collection at Librairie Bertrand Bookstore\, where copies will also be for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, September 18 at 5PM. \nMore details here. \nGet 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. \nThree poems from the collection\, originally published in The New Quarterly\, were nominated for a 2025 National Magazine Award in Poetry. \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/were-somewhere-else-now-montreal-launch/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue St. Pierre\, Montreal\, QC\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Colleen Coco Collins at the Antler River Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Colleen Coco Collins\, author of the poetry collection Sorry About the Fire\, will be a guest reader at the Antler River Poetry Series! Coco will be joined by fellow poets Erín Moure and Chantel Neveu. \nThe event takes place at the Landon Branch of the London Public Library on Wednesday\, September 17 at 7PM. \nGrab Sorry About the Fire here! \nABOUT SORRY ABOUT THE FIRE \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • 3rd Prize Alcuin Award for Book Design in Poetry \nI wanted a good bewildering\, / down deep\, / as the keep of a castle. \nWith a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences—Colleen Coco Collins’ debut poems are daring dispatches from beyond the margins: light-filled flares sent up from the edge of language\, sentience\, land\, and story. Drawing on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations and rendered through the triple vision of her Irish\, French\, and Odawa heritage\, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet\, but a stunningly original sensibility. \nABOUT COLLEEN COCO COLLINS \nColleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish\, French\, and Odawa descent\, working in songwriting\, performance\, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director\, in forestry\, fossil preparation\, and renovation; as an autism support worker\, teacher\, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing\, music\, and art practice centers on temporality\, presumptions of sentience\, subversion\, rhythm\, gesture\, geographies\, biophonies\, frequencies\, the ouroboric\, the peripatetic\, love and the polyglottic. Hailing from Antler River/Deshkan Ziibiing/London\, Ontario\, Coco has studied at universities in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, New Zealand\, and Ireland. She lives litorally in rural Port Greville\, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows\, coyotes\, grackles\, bees\, humpback\, lichen and fox.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/colleen-coco-collins-at-the-antler-river-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Landon Branch London Public Library\, 167 Wortley Road\, London\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:stephanie roberts at the LOGOS Lecture Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:stephanie roberts\, author of the poetry collection UNMET\, will be a guest at the LOGOS Lecture Reading Series! stephanie will be joined by fellow guest readers Chanel Sutherland\, Kelly Nora Drukker\, Marlihan Lopez\, Nathalie Batraville\, Laura Doyle Péan and Uchenna Dike. There will be an open-mic session as well\, with spaces for eight readers. \nThe event\, hosted by H. Nigel Thomas\, will take place on Sunday\, September 8 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/stephanie-roberts-at-the-logos-lecture-reading-series/
LOCATION:Lectures LOGOS Readings\, 2741 Notre-Dame West\, Montreal\, QC\, H3J 1N9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250907T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
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SUMMARY:Mark Bourrie at Eden Mills Festival
DESCRIPTION: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: A Conversation on Democracy.” Mark will be in conversation alongside David A. Robertson\, Andrew Coyne\, Ariel Sim\, and Karin Wells\, as well as host Jessica Johnson. \nIn a nation long mythologized as orderly and fair\, what happens when our democratic assumptions and institutions begin to wobble? The cracks have always been there—widening now into fault lines that shape our politics\, our laws\, and our daily lives. In this conversation\, journalists\, a legal historian\, an Indigenous organizer\, and a civic thinker gather to ask how a democracy survives when its story no longer matches its reality. From federal failures to grassroots resistance\, from the rights of rivers to the rights of women\, they invite us to wrestle with the hardest questions: Whose democracy is it? And who gets to decide? \nThe conversation will take place at The Meadow on Sunday\, September 7 at 1:30PM. More details here. \nGrab Ripper here! \nABOUT RIPPER \nSix weeks into the Covid pandemic\, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified two types of Western politicians: rippers and weavers. Rippers\, whether on the right or the left\, see politics as war. They don’t care about the destruction that’s caused as they fight for power. Weavers are their opposite: people who try to fix things\, who want to bring people together and try to build consensus. At the beginning of the pandemic\, weavers seemed to be winning. Five years later\, as Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, that’s no longer the case. Across the border\, a ripper is remaking the American government. And for the first time in its history\, Canada has its own ripper poised to assume power. \nPierre Poilievre has enjoyed most of the advantages of the mainstream Canadian middle class. Yet he’s long been the angriest man on the political stage. In Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie\, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize\, charts Poilievre’s rise through the political system\, from teenage volunteer to outspoken Opposition leader known for cutting soundbites and theatrics. Bourrie shows how we arrived at this divisive moment in our history\, one in which rippers are poised to capitalize on conflict. He shows how Poilievre and this new style of politics have gained so much ground—and warns of what it will cost us if they succeed. \nABOUT MARK BOURRIE \nMark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author\, lawyer\, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017\, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism\, including a National Magazine Award\, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent books include Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul\, the national bestseller Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia\, and Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mark-bourrie-at-eden-mills/
LOCATION:Eden Mills Writers’ Festival\, 19 Cedar Street\, Eden Mills\, Ontario\, N0B 1P0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20250826T130000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250801T184948Z
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SUMMARY:Ira Wells: Controversy @ Noon 2025 - Banned Books: What's Next?
DESCRIPTION: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 writers and for readers\, now and in the coming months? Years? What calls to action might help prevent the banning of books in the future? \nIra will be joined by fellow panelists Gail de Vos and Malcolm Azania\, along with moderator Peter Midgley\, as they explore the ramifications of banned books and more this August. \nThe virtual event will take place on Tuesday\, August 26 at 12PM MT. The event is free to attend with registration here. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ira-wells-controversy-noon-2025-banned-books-whats-next/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250815T153000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
DESCRIPTION: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! \nThe event will take place on Friday\, August 15 at 2:30 PM PST. \nMore details and tickets here. \nGrab 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 \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \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-sunshine-coast/
LOCATION:Rockwood Centre\, 5511 Shorncliffe Ave\, Sechelt\, BC\, V0N 3A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250806T200000
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SUMMARY:Ira Wells: Defending the Right to Read
DESCRIPTION: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 cases of book censorship\, and recent efforts of resistance against the oppression of literature. \nThe virtual event\, organized by Porter Square Books in Cambridge\, MA\,  will take place on Wednesday\, August 6 at 7PM. The event is free to attend with registration here. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ira-wells-defending-the-right-to-read/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250719T210000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Main Stage Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe discussion will take place on Saturday\, July 19 at 7:30PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab 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 \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \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-denman-island-festival-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Denman Island\, BC\, V0R 1T0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe workshop will take place on Thursday\, July 17 at 10AM. \nMore details here. \nGrab 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 \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \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-denman-island-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Denman Island\, BC\, V0R 1T0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Steven Beattie at the Books & Brews Book Fair
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe book fair will take place at the Jobsite Brewery on Saturday\, July 5 starting at 12PM. \nMore about Best Canadian Stories 2025 here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2025 \nSelected by editor Steven W. Beattie\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nChris Bailey • Christine Birbalsingh • Cody Caetano • Kate Cayley • Lynn Coady • Caitlin Galway • Marcel Goh • Beth Goobie • Mark Anthony Jarman • Saad Omar Khan • Chelsea Peters • Kawai Shen • Liz Stewart • Glenna Turnbull • Catriona Wright • Clea Young \nABOUT STEVEN W. BEATTIE \nSteven W. Beattie\, a writer in Stratford\, Ontario\, spent twelve and a half years as Review Editor at Quill & Quire\, Canada’s magazine of the publishing trade industry. His writing and criticism have appeared in the Globe and Mail\, the Toronto Star\, the National Post\, The Walrus\, Canadian Notes & Queries\, and elsewhere. He maintains the literary website That Shakespearean Rag.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/steven-beattie-at-the-books-brews-book-fair/
LOCATION:Jobsite Brewery\, 45 Cambria Street\, Stratford\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250628T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250628T160000
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SUMMARY:Graeme Macrae Burnet at MOTIVE Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 of Matricide\, and will be joined by fellow writers Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti for a conversation moderated by Samantha Bailey. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, June 28 at 2:15 PM. \nMore details here! \nGrab a copy of A Case of Matricide here. \nABOUT A CASE OF MATRICIDE \nFrom the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski. \nIn the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis\, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to kill her; a prominent businessman drops dead. Between visits to the town’s drinking establishments\, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders what connections\, if any\, exist between these events\, all while grappling with his own domestic and existential demons. \nWith his signature virtuosity\, in which literary sleight-of-hand meets piercing insight into human nature\, Graeme Macrae Burnet punctures the respectable bourgeois façade of small-town life and unspools a spellbinding riddle that blurs the boundaries between suspect\, investigator\, writer\, and reader. \nABOUT GRAEME MACRAE BURNET \nGraeme Macrae Burnet was born in Kilmarnock\, Scotland\, and now lives in Glasgow. His Bloody Project\, his second novel\, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016\, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2016\, and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards 2017. His fourth novel\, Case Study\, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 and was included in the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022. A Case of Matricide is his fifth novel\, the third featuring Chief Inspector Georges Gorski.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/graeme-macrae-burnet-at-motive-festival/
LOCATION:Emmanuel College\, 75 Queen's Park Crescent\, Rm 119\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250625T220000
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SUMMARY:Lazer Lederhendler at the French-American Translation Awards Ceremony!
DESCRIPTION:Lazer Lederhendler\, whose translation of Christophe Bernard’s The Hollow Beast won the French-American Translation Prize for Fiction will be honored at the annual Awards Ceremony in New York\, along with Nonfiction winner John Lambert and the finalists. Following an opening cocktail hour\, the event will begin with a special conversation featuring keynote speaker Paul LeClerc. \nThe spotlight will then turn to the winners\, who will receive their awards from members of the jury\, present their translations\, and take questions from the audience. Join this a lively evening and raise a glass to the art of translation\, and the channels of French-American cultural exchange it serves to open! \nThis event\, which will take place on June 25 at 6PM at the New York Society Library\, is free with RSVP. Seating is limited and first-come\, first-served. \nMore details and RSVP here. \nGrab The Hollow Beast here!
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/lazer-lederhendler-at-the-french-american-translation-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:New York Society Library\, 53 E 79th St\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremoy,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250518T153000
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SUMMARY:UNMET: stephanie roberts at the Halifax Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Come out for an afternoon of poetry with stephanie roberts\, who will be reading from her new poetry collection UNMET! Local poet Annick MacAskill will join the event. Books will be available for sale and signing by King’s Co-op. \nThe event will take place at the Halifax Central Library on Sunday\, May 18 at 2PM. \nMore details here. \nGet a copy of UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/unmet-halifax-public-library/
LOCATION:Halifax Public Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Rd\, Halifax\, NS\, B3J 1E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
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SUMMARY:Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me: Ottawa Launch
DESCRIPTION: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 and Catherine for a discussion on their acclaimed book. Copies will be available for sale and signing from Perfect Books. \nThe launch will take place at Library and Archives Canada on Friday\, May 16 at 8PM. \nFree tickets are required to attend in person. The event will live-stream from this page. No ticket required to watch online. \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 MÉLIKAH 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/baldwin-styron-and-me-ottawa-launch/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250410T155100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T202115Z
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SUMMARY:UNMET: Montreal Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out and celebrate the launch of stephanie roberts new poetry collection UNMET! stephanie will be reading from her collection at L’Euguelionne\, with additional readings by poets Sarah Burgoyne and Leslie Roach. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Tuesday\, May 6 at 5:30PM. \nGet a copy of UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/unmet-montreal-launch/
LOCATION:L’Euguelionne\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, QC\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T023000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T033000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250319T171748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T155623Z
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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Ira Wells at Ottawa Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event will take place on Sunday\, May 4 at 2:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-ottawa-writers-fest/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250319T171546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T155753Z
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SUMMARY:On Oil: Don Gillmor at Ottawa Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event\, hosted by Jennifer Baker\, will take place on Saturday\, May 3 at 4PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab On Oil here! \nABOUT ON OIL \nA journalist\, and former roughneck\, considers our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil. \nOil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth\, progress\, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars\, ended wars\, and infiltrated governments—in some cases\, effectively become the government. And now oil’s enduring mythology is facing a messy\, complicated twilight. \nIn On Oil\, Don Gillmor\, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta\, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture\, in Canada and elsewhere\, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course. \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 four novels\, 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\, The Walrus\, 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/on-oil-don-gillmor-at-ottawa-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T154550Z
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SUMMARY:Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me: Montreal Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Montreal to celebrate the launch of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me  by Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, translated by Catherine Khordoc! Mélikah will be reading from her new book at the event\, and copies will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place at Librairie Bertrand on Friday\, May 2 at 5PM. \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 MÉLIKAH 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/baldwin-styron-and-me-montreal-launch/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue St. Pierre\, Montreal\, QC\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250304T173646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T180649Z
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SUMMARY:On Oil: Don Gillmor at Words Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 Festival. Don will be in conversation with host and Words Director Josh Lambier. \nThis free virtual event will take place on Tuesday\, April 29 at 7pm EST over Zoom. \nMore details and event link here. \nGrab On Oil here! \nABOUT ON OIL \nA journalist\, and former roughneck\, considers our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil. \nOil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth\, progress\, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars\, ended wars\, and infiltrated governments—in some cases\, effectively become the government. And now oil’s enduring mythology is facing a messy\, complicated twilight. \nIn On Oil\, Don Gillmor\, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta\, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture\, in Canada and elsewhere\, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course. \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 three novels\, 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\, The Walrus\, 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/on-oil-don-gillmor-wordsfest/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T150612Z
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry 2025: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the end of National Poetry Month to celebrate Best Canadian Poetry 2025! This reading will feature a number of poets from the anthology\, including Cassidy McFadzean\, Molly Peacock\, Shannon Quinn\, Ronna Bloom\, Pauline Peters\, and Fareh Malik\, and will be hosted by longtime series editor Anita Lahey. Books will be available for sale and signing from Queen Books. \nThe event will take place on Tuesday\, April 29 at 6:30PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nCheck out the full series\, with Essays and Stories\, here! \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-2025-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Moncton:20250427T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Moncton:20250427T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
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SUMMARY:Lisa Alward at the Frye Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 You Are?’ The panel\, which features books that wrestle with bodily autonomy and the impossible expectations that come with being a woman\, will be moderated by Alisa Arsenault and features a discussion between Shashi Bhat and Siobhan Gallagher. \nThe event will take place at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre on Sunday\, April 27 at 1PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Cocktail here! \nABOUT COCKTAIL \nWinner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction • One of the Globe and Mail’s “Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall” • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 \nA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest\, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate\, immersive stories explore life’s watershed moments\, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths\, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since\, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves. \nABOUT LISA ALWARD \nLisa Alward’s short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize and twice in Best Canadian Stories. She has won the Fiddlehead Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award\, has been a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award\, an honourable mention in the Peter Hinchcliffe Award\, and been featured on numerous other long lists\, including for the CBC Story Prize and Prism International’s Jacob Zilber Prize (three times). She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in London\, England. In the eighties and early nineties\, she worked in book publishing in Toronto\, before moving with her young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, where at fifty she began to write stories. Cocktail (Biblioasis)\, which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews\, is her debut collection.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/lisa-alward-at-the-frye-festival/
LOCATION:Aberdeen Cultural Centre\, 140 rue Botsford\, Moncton\, NB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250426T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T071353
CREATED:20250310T203056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T195328Z
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SUMMARY:Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me: AfterWords Spring Foreword
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe event will take place at Park Place Theatre on Saturday\, April 26 at 6PM. \nMore 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 MÉLIKAH 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/baldwin-styron-and-me-afterwords-spring-foreword/
LOCATION:Park Place Theatre\, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 0B4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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