

IFOA Ontario, an offshoot of the International Festival of Authors, is expanding its touring program to 16 locations, with new stops in Brantford, Markham, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Woodstock. Box office and event details are ... Read More »

Have you ever wanted to own your own author? Now you can, with a $100 donation to Word on the Street Toronto. In exchange for a contribution to the non-profit organization, select from a list ... Read More »

Vancouver will play host to a new festival celebrating Canadian comics and graphic novels. The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival has been in the works for about a year, and last week organizers announced the event ... Read More »

Here are just a few of the literary events happening across the country in the next week: Melancthon (7 Directions & the African Reparations Fund) poetry reading with NourbeSe Philip, Jumari Giles, Truth Is, Zainab ... Read More »

Last night at the Ship Pub in St. John's, former Newfoundland poet laureate Agnes Walsh launched Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre (Breakwater Books). The event was hosted by actor, writer, and comedian Andy ... Read More »

Although Toronto's mosquitoes were feasting, the weather cooperated for The Last Scream in High Park, which wrapped up Monday night under a moonlit sky. Fifteen authors, including former host Misha Glouberman and Griffin Prize“winner Christian ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Events

On July 5, Doubleday Canada hosted a launch party for Martha Schabas and her debut novel, Various Positions, at the Toronto ... Read More »

A large crowd of supporters packed the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts in Toronto on June 30 for the Broadsheet Magazine fundraiser. The event featured readings by Sarah Selecky, Matthew J. Trafford, and Jessica ... Read More »

The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »

You can meet your favourite author, but you'll have to buy a ticket Ouch, that hurts: 30 of the nastiest author-on-author insults Contrary to media reports, Lady Gaga and philosopher Slavoj Žižek are not caught ... Read More »