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
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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 »
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
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 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
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
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
There's more to Sherlock Holmes than a magnifying glass, pipe, and deerstalker hat. The Toronto Reference Library offers a glimpse into the world of the great fictional detective with its exhibit Adventures with Sherlock Holmes, ... Read More »
January 9, 2013 | Filed under: Events
After surviving two weeks of award festivities, the Writers' Trust of Canada is still in a party mood. Tonight is the organization's fundraising gala, held at the posh Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. In a ... Read More »
November 15, 2012 | Filed under: Events
It was a wild weekend for The New Quarterly. The literary journal hosted the inaugural Wild Writers Literary Festival, the only event of its kind in the Waterloo, Ontario, region. TNQ editor Pamela Mulloy says ... Read More »
November 5, 2012 | Filed under: Events
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