March 6 11:00 am

Writers Read presents a Professional Panel and Reading with Laurie Graham, Derek Beaulieu, and Jana Prikryl

Writers Read presents Derek Beaulieu, Laurie Graham, and Jana Prikryl in 4th SPACE on March 6th for a professional panel on writing. And of course, we are delighted to have Headlight Anthology joining us for a lunch hour reading. This hybrid event is free and open to all. If you can not attend the full event, you are more than welcome to join in for the portion that you can.

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March 7 7:00 pm

MECHANOPHILIA LAUNCH w/ Sarah Burgoyne, Misha Solomon & Bridget Huh

Join Sarah Burgoyne, Misha Solomon and Bridget Huh at Librairie Pulp on March 7th for the launch of Sarah Burgoyne and Vi Khi Nao‘s collaborative mathematical infinite epic poetry book Mechanophilia (Book 1!), hosted by the inimitable Stuart Ross, editor of A Feed Dog Book, an imprint with Anvil Press. Poems will be read, books will be signed, refreshments will appear, and the number pi will unfurl among us in verse. JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF LOQUACIOUS BALLADEERING.

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March 14 6:00 pm

mRb Spring 2024 Issue Launch

The Montreal Review of Books launches its Spring 2024 issue on Thursday, March 14th, at Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke Street West) in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival! Following the festival’s 2024 programming announcement, join us in Espace Godin for refreshments and readings by Louisa Blair (The Calf With Two Heads, Baraka Books), Jay Ritchie (Listening in Many Publics, Invisible Publishing) and Oonya Kempadoo (Naniki, Dundurn Press).

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March 27 7:00 pm

Canisia Lubrin and Christina Sharpe

Writers Read (Concordia) presents Griffin-Prize winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin and writer, Professor, and Canadian Research Chair member in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University Christina Sharpe. This event is free and open to all.

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