January 21 9:00 pm
The Rhizomatic presents Cecily Nicholson, 9pm EST
More info here!
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January 28 5:30 pm
Talonbooks, online reading, 5:30 PST (Vancouver)
Fred Wah, Colin Browne, Junie Désily and Taryn Boyd.
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January 30 7:00 pm
The Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature Annual Lecture: Wayde Compton & Stephen Collis, 7pm EST (4pm PST)
Full info here!
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February 5 4:00 pm
Writers Read (Concordia) presents Elisa Gabbert, 4pm EST
A reading by Elisa Gabbert – and full info here!
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February 9 7:00 pm
In Our Tongues Reading And Art Series (7pm-9pm EST)
In Our Tongues presents Tiyahna Ridley-Padmore, Justin “Jah’kota” Holness and El Jones – with full info here!
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February 10 7:00 pm
un/settled: Reading Black Women, Art, Poetry and Place, 7pm PST (10pm EST)
Join artist-writer Chantal Gibson, poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, and SFU librarian Ebony Magnus for a night of readings and reflection, as they discuss un/settled, the towering, photo-poetic art installation at the corner of Hastings and Richards that drapes Black womanhood over 240 ft2 of SFU Belzberg Library’s street-front windows.
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February 11 6:30 pm
White Wall Review’s launch of Issue 50! (6:30pm EST)
Ryerson University’s creative writing journal White Wall Review presents readings by Ace Boggess, Hannah Big Canoe, Andrew DuBois, Johanna Peacock, Kisha Rendon, Damian Rogers, Lisanne Rogers, Samuel Strathman, and Raquel Vengroff.
Full info here!
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February 12 4:00 pm
Soundtracks and Stanzas: Changing Canada’s Black Future, 4pm EST
Featured poets: Jillian Christmas (Vancouver), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (Montreal), Desiree McKenzie (Toronto), Motion (Toronto)
Curator and emcee: Poet Britta B. (Toronto).
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February 14 8:00 pm
Solastalgia Issue Launch, The VOID Magazine, 8pm EST
Virtual launch party and readings by
Alexandra Khalimonova
Malte Zumbansen
Erika Della Cioppa
and MORE TBC
Full info here!
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February 17 7:30 pm
Riverbed Reading Series (7:30pm EST), curated by Helen Robertson
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Ashley Hynd, Ben Ladouceur, and Arianna Verbree. Full info here!
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February 18 7:00 pm
Launch of Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s debut novel Book of Wings, 7pm EST
Join in celebration of the release of Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s debut novel BOOK OF WINGS. The event will feature a reading by the author, a conversation with Kaie Kellough, questions from viewers, and a book give-away! Presented by Véhicule Press and Drawn & Quarterly – and event link here.
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February 18 9:00 pm
Virtual launch of Room 43.4 Twine, 6pm PST / 9pm EST
Featuring readings from contributors Emily Riddle, Jasmine Sealy, Jenny Heijun Wills, Jessi Lee Jackson, Kit McKeown, Leah Edwards, Margo LaPierre, and Wei Ting Jen. Hosted by Room editors Geffen Semach and Isabella Wang.
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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 25 6:00 pm
Indigenous Voices: an evening of poetry and prose (6pm PST / 9pm EST)
Garry Gottfriedson, Jessica Johns, and Richard Van Camp, and hosted by Molly Cross-Blanchard.
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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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March 11 4:00 pm
Making Strange: A reading and conversation with Phillip Crymble and Sarah Wolfson, 4pm-5pm EST
Poetry Matters presents Phillip Crymble and Sarah Wolfson.
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March 13 2:00 pm
In/Verse Monthly Poetry Reading, 2pm PST
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March 17 8:00 pm
The Poetry Project (NYC) presents a Celebration for Akilah Oliver’s the she said dialogues: flesh memory, online 8PM ET
| Readers and performers include Tyler Burba, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tonya M. Foster, Tobi Haslett, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph & LaVonne Natasha Caesar, Rachel Levitsky, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Marcia Oliver, Julie Patton, Tiana Reid, Eleni Sikelianos, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zolf. Full info here! |
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March 18 7:00 pm
Jessi MacEachern launches A Number of Stunning Attacks, with Klara du Plessis and Jessie Jones, online 7pm ET
Link to virtual salon shared on the night of the event at Knife Fork Books.
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