Events for October 23, 2025 - September 24, 2025

  • Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Long Short Story

    Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Caroline Adderson will be reading from her Giller-longlisted story collection, A Way to Be Happy, at the AfterWords Festival's event, "Long Short Story." Caroline will be in conversation with fellow short […]

  • Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Open Secrets

    The Carleton 1685 Argyle St, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) we be joining the AfterWords Festival's event, "Open Secrets." When Andrea Skinner wrote in the Toronto Star about being assaulted by her stepfather […]

  • Catherine Leroux at AfterWords Festival: Fantastic Ideas

    Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Join Catherine Leroux, author of Canada Reads-winning The Future, at the AfterWords Festival's event, "Fantastic Ideas." Catherine will be reuniting with her Canada Reads champion Heather O'Neill in conversation about […]

  • Behind the Scenes at Canada Reads with Catherine Leroux

    Women's Canadian Club of Montreal 4626 Sherbrooke St W, Westmount, QC, Canada

    Catherine Leroux, author of The Future, will be in conversation with CBC Canada Reads producer Lucy Mann to discuss the book's 2024 Canada Reads win. The discussion will take place at […]

  • Best Canadian 2025 Launch at Fanfare Books

    Fanfare Books 92 Ontario Street, Stratford, ON, Canada

    Editors Steven W. Beattie (Best Canadian Stories 2025) and Emily Urquhart (Best Canadian Essays 2025) will be hosting a reading and conversation at Fanfare Books in Stratford! The two editors […]

  • Lisa Alward at the Lorenzo Society Reading Series

    Oland Hall Room 104, University of New Brunswick, NB, Canada

    Lisa Alward, author of Cocktail, will be featured in the UNB Lorenzo Society's Reading Series, hosted by Gemma Marr. The reading will take place on Thursday, January 30 at 7PM. More […]

  • Question Authority: Mark Kingwell at Vanier College

    Vanier College Vanier Auditorium A-103, 821 avenue Sainte-Croix, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Mark Kingwell will be the keynote speaker at the Vanier College Humanities Symposium, with a talk on his new book Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations. Mark will discuss how to reclaim the democratic spirit of questioning authority and thinking. The talk will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 1:30PM. Presentations […]

  • Mark Anthony Jarman at the Florence Writers Workshop

    St. Mark's Church Via Maggio 16, Firenze, Italy

    Mark Anthony Jarman, author of Burn Man: Selected Stories will guide this workshop on Beginnings and Endings with focus on short stories, although his lessons can be applied to other works too. Mark will lead participants through inspiring models and handy techniques from well-known short-story authors. Sponsored by Florence Literary Society, this is a free ticketed event. […]

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  • Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) Virtual Longlist Party

    Celebrate the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) longlisting of Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton, at this virtual longlist party!  The celebration is free and open to the public, and will feature the six judges as hosts, representatives from the longlisted presses as well as authors and translators reading […]

  • Ira Wells at the Toronto Public Library

    Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, Canada

    As part of Freedom to Read Week, Toronto Public Library presents critic, essayist, and associate professor at the University of Toronto, Ira Wells to celebrate the publication of his new title On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy, in conversation with host Charles Foran. The culture wars have […]

  • On Book Banning: Ira Wells at the Centre for Free Expression

    Join Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning, in a Freedom to Read Week conversation with Centre for Free Expression Director James L. Turk, at this time when censorship is becoming popular and pervasive. The event is co-sponsored by Canadian School Libraries, Edmonton Public Library, PEN Canada, Toronto Public Library, Vancouver Public Library. This free virtual […]