This Week in Lit Events: January 18-24th

Unlike that lazy groundhog, Canada-wide reading series are crawling out of their winter hidey-holes early to bring you great poets and novelists to listen to this week.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to  hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.

Monday, January 18th

Toronto

Common Readings, January EditionWhere: Belljar Cafe, 2072 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: The time has come, the literary readings host said, to talk of many things…January is a good month to be cool. It’s also a good time to drag your sorry keister out from under that pathetic pile of blankets and oreos and netflix marathons to get back into hot city kulchur!This month’s lineup of readers – Sarah Henstra, Ewan White, and Emma Healey – is the perfect cure for winter blues, even an unusally temperate winter (knock on wood)–fiction, poetry, translations, we’ve got it all! & I hear that the Belljar promises some amazing new cocktails! Come for the words and the wine!Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/436609976538801/

Tuesday, January 19th

TorontoArt Bar Poetry SeriesWhere: The Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Art Bar Poetry Series presents Samuel Andreyev, author of The Relativistic Empire. Also reading: Robyn Sarah and Armand Garnet Ruffo. PWYC.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1026479807416597/

Wednesday, January 20th

Toronto

Pivot Reading Series at the SteadyWhere: The Steady Cafe and Bar, 1051 Bloor St West, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Pivot keeps moving unafraid into what we are told is the winter. We have three great readers on the twentieth, with debuting novelist Jean Marc Ah-Sen and debuting poet James Lindsay joined by the much-loved poet and professor Carolyn Smart.Featuring Jean Marc Ah-Sen, James Lindsay, and Carolyn Smart.PWYC (suggested donation: $5). Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney.Link: http://pivotreadings.ca/2016/01/07/pivot-on-january-20th-jean-marc-ah-sen-james-lindsay-and-carolyn-smart/Vancouver

Incite!Where: Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BCWhen: 7:30pmMore information: Coming up in the new year: the return of Incite! The first Incite event for 2016 will take place at the VPL Central Branch at 7:30pm, Wednesday January 20 and will feature novelists Andrew Battershill, Pauline Holdstock and Billie Livingston. This event is free, but we appreciate it if you let us know you’ll be attending in advance. 

Sunday, January 24th

Toronto

HIJ House Reading Series, The Season 3 openerWhere: BookThug HQ/aka Chez Millar, 260 Ryding Avenue, Toronto, ONWhen: 2-5pmMore information: HIJ House Reading Series, The Season 3 opener, presents HIJ #17 with Catherine Bush, Damian Rogers and Rachel Rose. Free. Donations welcome for the authors. All are welcome.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1649869238587557/