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 details to come here. Grab a copy of Cocktail here! ABOUT COCKTAIL Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields […]

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 […]

Mark Kingwell at the Toronto Public Library

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

Mark Kingwell will be discussing his new book Question Authority at the Toronto Public Library, in conversation with host Randy Boyagoda. The event is free, and will take place on Thursday, February 27 at 7PM in the Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room at the Toronto Reference Library. More details here. Grab Question Authority here! ABOUT QUESTION AUTHORITY Philosopher […]

Freedom to Read Week with Ira Wells (On Book Banning)

In celebration of Freedom to Read Week in Canada, join Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy, for thought-provoking online conversation Dr. Shannon Murray, held by Bookmark Bookstores. This virtual event will take place on Thursday, February 27 at 7PM ADT. Reserve your free […]

On Book Banning: Ira Wells at Words Festival

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, in this virtual event with the Words Festival. Ira will be speaking in conversation with host Josh Lambier. This free virtual event will take […]

UNMET: stephanie roberts at the Third Thursday Reading Series

stephanie roberts, author of the forthcoming poetry collection UNMET, will be a readers for Cobourg's Third Thursday Reading Series! The event will take place on Thursday, April 17. More details to come. Preorder UNMET here! ABOUT UNMET This is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else, you […]