September 21 7:30 pm
Inheritance: Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams in conversation (Ottawa Writers Festival, online) 7:30pm EDT
Full info & registration for the link here!
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September 24 7:00 pm
Black Writers Out Loud – Roen Higgins, Fabrice Koffy, and Faith Paré in conversation with Jason “Blackbird” Selman, 7pm EDT
Roen Higgins, Fabrice Koffy, and Faith Paré in conversation with Jason “Blackbird” Selman. This is the second in a QWF series of online events celebrating black literary arts in Quebec. Full info here!
(Free, but register in advance for the link!)
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September 30 7:00 pm
AfterWords Literary Festival: Live and Virtual, Sept 30 – Oct 4,
“The second annual AfterWords Literary Festival brings writers and readers together via Zoom for five days of readings, conversations, workshops, and celebratory events! Presented live from Halifax, the festival features Roxane Gay, along with VIVEK SHRAYA, Sue Goyette, Cory Doctorow, Shani Mootoo, Catherine Hernandez, Keith Barker and many more. Most events are presented free, with a small suggested donation. You must register in advance, however, in order to receive a Zoom link to the show of your choice. Tickets to the Roxane Gay event, with opener El Jones, are $15, and tickets to the writing workshops are limited, and priced from $15-$20.” Full info here!
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October 8 10:00 pm
Writing Unpossessed: Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek, 10pm EDT (7pm PDT)
SFU Department of English presents Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek as the 2020 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence. This virtual event will be a reading Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek and conversation with Canisia Lubrin. Moderated by David Chariandy.
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November 13 4:00 pm
Writers Read launches its 2020-2021 season with a virtual reading and discussion of Watch Your Head
The season will be inaugurated with a virtual reading of Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to The Climate Crisis this Friday, November 13th at 4 pm.
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November 27 7:00 pm
Kaie Kellough and Canisia Lubrin, 7pm ET
Black Writers Out Loud is a series of QWF events celebrating Black literary arts in Quebec. This fourth event in the series is co-produced with the AELAQ, and features Kaie Kellough in conversation with Canisia Lubrin. These two award-winning authors from the worlds of poetry and prose come together to speak on their craft and all matters human.
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November 27 7:00 pm
Writers Read presents Kama La Mackerel and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch in conversation
More info here!
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January 4 7:00 pm
Postponed | Souvankham Thammavongsa and Madeleine Thien, 7pm EST
2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa will be interviewed by 2016 Prize winner Madeleine Thien. This is a free event that will take place on Zoom. JOIN HERE: http://bit.ly/2LhaYCL
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February 19 4:00 pm
Writers Read (Concordia) presents Airea D. Matthews, 4pm EST
A reading and conversation with Airea D. Matthews. Full info here!
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February 26 2:30 pm
The Politics of Multi-Disciplinarity
Kaie Kellough, the 2021 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University, has organized this fantastic event featuring Gary Barwin, Tawhida Tanya Evanson and Kama La Mackerel.
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March 5 2:30 pm
Souvankham Thammavongsa in conversation with Kaie Kellough
Creative Writing at Queen’s University presents the English Department’s Writer in Residence, Kaie Kellough, in conversation with the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife.
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March 7 4:00 pm
A Reading by Menominee Poet Chrystos, 4pm-5pm EST
A reading by Menominee poet Chrystos and conversation with Smaro Kamboureli. More info here and here!
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June 3 7:00 pm
Librairie D+Q Presents Jordan Abel launching Nishga, online 7pm ET
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and McClelland & Stewart present Jordan Abel launching Nishga, in conversation with Ian Williams. Full info here!
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November 19 2:00 pm
Writers Read presents: Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb and Nicole Raziya Fong in conversation
Full info here!
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June 24 5:00 pm
Sina Queyras – Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf – Book Launch!
Sina Queyras in conversation with Alexei Perry Cox
De Still Booksellers, 351 Av. Duluth E. Montreal
June 24, 5pm-7pm
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November 17 12:30 pm
A Partly Common Language: Roundtable on the Poetics Essay, online
The Capilano Review presents “A Partly Common Language: Roundtable on The Poetics Essay,” featuring Nicole Brossard, Stephen Collis, Larissa Lai, Jami Macarty, and D.S. Marriott. Online, on Zoom, and co-sponsored by the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
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