March 1 9:00 pm
Poetry SLAM
Feature Poet : SVENS TELEMAQUE
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March 2 5:00 pm
Singing Off the Grid, book launch for Kathy Kennedy
March 2, 5pm-8pm @ Sala Rossa
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March 2 8:00 pm
Accent Open Mic
8pm @ La Marche à Côté
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March 5 11:00 am
Our Voices, presented by Writers Read
@ 4th SPACE at Concordia University
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March 5 6:00 pm
Launch of Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant
Join for the launch of Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant in Montreal.
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March 6 8:00 pm
Open Mic, featuring Eva Crocker and kurichka
@ l’Hémisphère Gauche, 211 beaubien est
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March 12 6:00 pm
Montreal Review of Books Spring 2025 Launch
The Montreal Review of Books launches its Spring 2025 issue on Wednesday, March 12th at Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke Street West) in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. Following the festival’s 2025 programming announcement, join us in Espace Godin for refreshments and readings by Leila Marshy (My Thievery of the People, Baraka Books), Rachel McCrum (La belle-mère / The Stepmother, l’Hexagone) and Oana Avasilichioaei (Chambersonic, Talonbooks).
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March 13 7:00 pm
Book Talk with Leila Marshy and Anita Anand
@ Argo Books, full info and RSVP here!
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March 18 7:00 pm
Haley Mlotek launches No Fault: A Memoir on Romance and Divorce
Join Pulp Books and Café in welcoming Haley Mlotek to launch her new book, No Fault: A Memoir on Romance and Divorce, in conversation with Durga Chew-Bose.
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March 20 5:00 pm
ground, field, figure – poets and critics in relation, Liz Howard and Sarah Dowling
5pm-7pm, Rocket Science Room, 170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204
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March 20 7:00 pm
Soliloquies Anthology – Open Mic
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March 21 8:00 pm
Soirée poésie + traduction: Rencontres multilingues en poésie
Célébrons la Journée mondiale de la poésie avec des poèmes et traductions en français et en anglais, mais aussi en anishnaabe, arabe, espagnol, hongrois, innu-aimun, inuktitut, italien, k’iche’, kibembe, mapuchezungún, occitan, persan, swahili et wendat
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March 25 7:30 pm
Poetry Book Launch – Joseph Kidney, w/ guest poet Domenica Martinello
Join us for the launch of Devotional Forensics by icehouse poet Joseph Kidney, featuring poet Domenica Martinello.
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March 31 6:30 pm
Headlight Anthology Reunion
In tandem with celebrating 50 years of Concordia University, join us Monday, March 31st from 6:30pm-9:30pm in MB9D to toast to over 25 years of Headlight Anthology, Concordia’s graduate literary magazine. We will hear from past Headlight contributors Sarah Burgoyne, Aaron Kreuter, Neil Smith, Misha Solomon, Gillian Sze, and Headlight‘s founder Josh Knelman.
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March 31 7:30 pm
Nikan (cent ans) de Natasha Kanapé
Full info here!
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