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SUMMARY:Mark Jarman at AfterWords Festival: The Stories We Become
DESCRIPTION:Mark Anthony Jarman (Smash & Grab\, Burn Man) will be appearing at AfterWords Festival for the event “The Stories We Become: Readings and Conversation” presented by the University of King’s College. Mark will be reading from his stories\, and joined in conversation by Kaie Kellough\, Jennifer LoveGrove\, Sharon Bala\, and Ruth Ozeki. \nThe event will take place at the Bus Stop Theatre on Saturday\, November 7 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nLivestream link here. \nCheck out Mark’s books here! \nABOUT SMASH & GRAB \n“A Canadian master of the form.”—Gregory Cowles\, New York Times \nOne of Kirkus Reviews‘ 5 Collections that Short Story Fans Shouldn’t Miss \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.
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LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Cherry Beach: 2026 Toronto Book Awards Prize Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Toronto for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards Prize Ceremony! Cherry Beach by Don Gillmor is a shortlisted title\, and the award winner will be announced at the ceremony that night. Author and comedian\, Ali Hassan will be joined by this year’s finalists\, and other notable Torontonians to celebrate the City and its literary accomplishments. \nThe event will take place at the Appel Salon inside the Toronto Reference Library on Tuesday\, November 10 at 7PM. \nFree registration and more details here. \nGet Cherry Beach here! \nABOUT CHERRY BEACH \n“This is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles\, New York\, and Boston as a character in the action and it’s great.”—Margaret Cannon\, Globe and Mail \nShortlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards \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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/cherry-beach-2026-toronto-book-awards-prize-ceremony/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremoy
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SUMMARY:DAPHNIS AND CHLOE: Windsor Launch
DESCRIPTION:Windsor readers: Join us in welcoming critically acclaimed Canadian author Colin McAdam at Biblioasis Bookshop\, for the launch of his 2026 Giller Prize–nominated novel\, Daphnis and Chloe. Colin will be reading from his book\, along with a discussion and audience Q&A. This event is free and open to everyone\, and refreshments will be provided. \nThe launch will take place at Biblioasis Bookshop on Thursday\, November 12 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nABOUT DAPHNIS AND CHLOE \nLonglisted for the 2026 Giller Prize • A 2026 CIBA Booksellers’ List Selection • One of Lit Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 \nA fable about love and innocence and beauty\, and finding a light through the darkness. \nThere’s a city on an island in the Pacific that can only be reached by ferry\, a city where a mechanic named Frank opens a garage with his old friend Charlie. Both men marry the women they love but are unable to have children. There are drugs on the streets of this city that take away pain for strings of minutes and bring synthetic rapture; and by these streets the couples are given two babies\, abandoned under strange circumstances. The boy they name Daphnis\, and the girl Chloe. \nAnd so begins a book unlike anything else\, a modern retelling of an ancient story. Part Ovid and part True Romance\, and narrated by Eros himself\, Daphnis and Chloe offers a pulpy meditation on love and beauty\, on people triumphing over darkness by wrestling deep within it\, on the solace of art\, and on the simple but profound pleasure provided to a blind old man as he holds his wife’s hand and listens to an increasingly familiar story. \nABOUT COLIN MCADAM \nColin McAdam is an internationally acclaimed novelist with a PhD from Cambridge on translations of Ancient Greek—the original language of Daphnis and Chloe. He has written non-fiction for Harpers\, Granta\, Salon\, and Hazlitt\, among other journals\, and his novels have won or been shortlisted for several prizes including the Amazon Best First Novel Award\, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize\, the Commonwealth Writers Prize\, the Governor General’s Award\, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Giller Prize. He lives in Quebec.
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LOCATION:Biblioasis Bookshop\, 1520 Wyandotte St E\, Windsor\, ON\, N9A 3L2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Essays 2027: Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Toronto friends: Join us for the launch of Best Canadian Essays 2027! Guest editor Deborah Dundas will be joined by several contributors for a night of reading and discussion Books will be available for sale and signing from Another Story. \nThe launch will take place at Another Story on Thursday\, November 19 at 7PM. \nGrab Best Canadian Essays 2027 here! \nCheck out all three of this year’s anthologies here. \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2027 \nSelected and introduced by Deborah Dundas\, Best Canadian Essays 2027 provides a unique perspective on what constitutes the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in the previous year. Featuring insights on the impact and aftermath of COVID\, battling wildfires and understanding Indigenous fire stewardship\, a life before and after trauma\, condo-buying\, dead mall tours\, difficult family histories\, and more\, these fifteen essays negotiate the zone between then and now\, and take readers straight to the heart of the matter. \nFeaturing: \nDarcy Ballantyne • Melinda Burns • Claire Cameron • Kathy Chow • Dane de Souza • Hilary Fair • Lana Hall • Tanis MacDonald • Stephen Marche • Soraya Roberts • Lisa Robertson • Julie Salverson • Cora Siré • Moez Surani • Erika Thorkelson \nABOUT DEBORAH DUNDAS \nDeborah Dundas is a writer and journalist\, has worked as a television producer and is currently an editor at the Toronto Star. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in Canada\, the UK and Ireland including Maclean’s\, The Globe and Mail\, The National Post\, Canadian Notes and Queries\, The Belfast Telegraph and The Sunday Independent. She attended York University for English and Political Science and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-essays-2027-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Another Story\, 315 Roncesvalles Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M6R 2M6\, Canada
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