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Ten years of TCAF

If you've attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in recent years, you may find it hard to believe that this thriving event began a decade ago in a modest church space, with about 70 artists ... Read More »

May 7, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Kids Can Press celebrates 40 years with birthday bash

By Julie Baldassi

Kids Can Press is celebrating its 40th anniversary as one of Canada's children's book publishers with a party at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre on Thursday, May 16. The celebration, which runs from 10 to 11 a.m., ... Read More »

May 2, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Stephen King and son to headline IFOA

By Sue Carter

This year's International Festival of Authors will open with an appearance from one of the world's most prolific and well-known authors. Stephen King is scheduled to headline PEN Canada's annual benefit on Oct. 24 at ... Read More »

April 16, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Way to Display! Freedom to Read Week

By Sue Carter

Across Canada, libraries, booksellers, and literacy organizations are hosting events in honour of Freedom to Read Week, which runs ... Read More »

February 28, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Toronto Public Library picks Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for 2013 One Book event

By Natalie Sequeira

The Toronto Public Library is hoping to get readers fired up this spring with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books), which has been chosen for the 2013 One Book community reading event. "We decided to ... Read More »

February 27, 2013 | Filed under: Events, Libraries

The Great Black North launches in Toronto

By Natalie Sequeira

The Great Black North (Frontenac House), an anthology of contemporary African-Canadian poetry, launched in Toronto on Thursday as part of a country-wide tour. The event showcased a sample of the passionate verse in the anthology, ... Read More »

February 15, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Lisa Moore’s February wins CBC Canada Reads

By Natalie Sequeira

On the 31st anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster, Lisa Moore's February (House of Anansi Press) has won this year's CBC Canada Reads. February explores loss and moving on as experienced by Helen O'Mara, whose ... Read More »

February 14, 2013 | Filed under: Events

The house Al Purdy built

By Ashliegh Gehl

The quaint A-frame house Al Purdy built in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, has always been a work in progress. After the poet died in 2000, his wife, Eurithe, wanted to keep it that way. She put it ... Read More »

January 31, 2013 | Filed under: Events

George Elliott Clarke to speak at poetry slam event

By Natalie Sequeira

Original, impassioned, and usually pretty loud, poetry slams offer spoken word artists a chance to present their work and compete in front of a crowd hungry for creativity. And Toronto's poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke, ... Read More »

January 22, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrates 10 years

By Natalie Sequeira

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with what it describes in a press release as the largest and most international array of comics, authors, and artists in the history of the ... Read More »

January 16, 2013 | Filed under: Events

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