Here are just a few events happening across the country this week:

• Munyonzwe Hamalengwa launches The Politics of Judicial Diversity and Transformation, A Different Booklist, Toronto (March 30, 7 p.m., free)
• International Children’s Book Day celebration, A.C. Hunter Public Library, St. John’s (March 31, 2 p.m., free)
• Maggie Helwig reads from Girls Fall Down, Toronto Reference Library (April 2, 7 p.m., free)
• Trillium Book Award 25th anniversary reading with Jeramy Dodds, Maureen Scott Harris, Jeff Latosik, Adam Sol, and Karen Solie, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (April 4, 7 p.m., free)
• Robson Reading Series presents a National Poetry Month celebration with Margaret Christakos, Leigh Kotsilidis, and Steven Price, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (April 3, 7 p.m., free)
• Calgary Spoken Word Festival featuring C.R. Avery, David Bateman, Lisa Pasold, and others, Calgary, various locations (April 4-22)
• Lawyer David Whellams launches his debut thriller, Walking Into the Ocean, Collected Works, Ottawa (April 4, 7 p.m., free)