This Week in Lit Events: January 23-29th

This week there are just heaps of readings: whether it’s fiction or poetry you’re after, there’s events on both coasts in Halifax, Vancouver, and Victoria (plus some in Toronto!).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.

Tuesday, January 24th

Vancouver

Home and Wilderness: Three PoetsWhere: Firehall Branch of the Vancouver Public Library, 1455 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BCWhen: 6-7:45pmMore information: Winnipeggers Angeline Schellenberg and Joanne Epp join local poet Elena Johnson to read from and discuss their debut collections. In Tell Them It Was Mozart, Schellenberg uncovers the ache and whimsy of raising children with autism. Epp’s Eigenheim explores memory, identity and the search for home. Johnson’s Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra reveals the texture of a remote mountain landscape.Books available for sale.

Wednesday, January 25th

TorontoPivot Reading SeriesWhere: The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Pivot keeps it up with our second show of the year and it has a bit of everything. We have local poet and recent New Yorker contributor Nyla Matuk along with sportswriter and fiction guy D.D. Miller and genre-bending humourist, playwright and author Drew Hayden Taylor. This will be a good one, gang.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/689788841203229/

Thursday, January 26th

Toronto

Clearing a Path: Poetry for a Unified FutureWhere: Debates Room, Hart House, Hart House Circle, Toronto, ONWhen: 2pmMore information: What is poetry’s relationship to knowledge of Indigenous languages, to ancestral lands and waters, to connections across time? Join us for readings and discussion with celebrated poets Gwen Benaway, Lee Maracle, and Gregory Scofield.Link: fnh.utoronto.caSpeakeasy Reading Series: Fresh StartWhere: The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 7:30pmMore information: Don’t you just love the beginning of a fresh New Year? We do! And, we especially love showcasing fresh voices and faces from the literary scene you should get familiar with in 2017. Our first Speakeasy event for 2017 will feature David Bradford, Mark Jordan Manner, Jess Taylor, and M-E Girard.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1237237036361219/Waterloo, ON

Carolyn Smart reads at the St. Jerome’s Reading SeriesWhere: SJ1 3027, St. Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, OntarioWhen: 8pmMore information: Carolyn Smart reads at the St. Jerome’s Reading Series in Waterloo: to start off Journeys Vol. 2 in Winter term, we welcome poet Carolyn Smart.Link: http://www.brickbooks.ca/events/carolyn-smart-reads-at-the-st-jeromes-reading-series-in-waterloo/VancouverTwisted Poets Literary SalonWhere: Cottage Bistro, 4470 Main Street, Vancouver, BCWhen: 7-9pmMore information: Features: Angeline Schellenberg, Adrienne Drobnies, Gisela Ruebsaat. Hosted by: Natasha Boskic & Leanne Boschman. Presented by Pandora’s Collective.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1422905284421392/

Friday, January 27th

Toronto

Passage book launch: A Trans Girl Literary CelebrationWhere: Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church Street, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Passage Book Launch, a trans girl literary celebration featuring poet of the collection Gwen Benaway, plus Vivek Shraya, Briar Rose, and Jia Qing Yang.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1823262284613165/TorontoCrossroads Reading SeriesWhere: Vanier College 001, York University, 4700 Keele St, 254 Vanier College, Toronto, ONWhen: 4:30-7:30pmMore information: Bruce W Powe (Guernica Editions), Patricia Keeney (Inanna Press) and more read their work and talk bout their experience in the publishing industry.Crossroads is a long-term series passionate about:

• uniting the student writing community
• cultivating dialogue between students, faculty, industry, technology
• connecting students with mentors and opportunity
• talking about the evolving landscape of the publishing and tech industry

Link: yucrossroads.tkHalifaxGenevieve Lehr reads at Saint Mary’s Reading SeriesWhere: Patrick Power Library, Inglis Street, Halifax, NSWhen: 7pmMore information: Genevieve Lehr reads from Stomata (Brick Books, 2016) with Deidre Dwyer, Alyda Faber, Nanci Lee, Matt Robinson, and Margo Wheaton, in honour of their new poetry books published by Gaspereau, Goose Lane, ECW, and MQUP in the Patrick Power Library.VictoriaPlanet Earth PoetryWhere: Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BCWhen: 7:30-9pmMore information: Angeline Schellenberg and Maleea Acker read at Planet Earth Poetry Series in Victoria.Link: http://planetearthpoetry.com/new-events/2017/1/27/maleea-acker-and-angeline-schellengerg

Saturday, January 28th

VancouverWe Come To Witness: Sonny Assu in Dialogue with Emily Carr Poetry ReadingWhere: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC When: 3pmMore information: Janet Rogers will read from her new book Totem Poles and Railroads, which succinctly defines the 500-year-old relationship between Indigenous nations and the corporation of Canada. Placing poetry at the centre of our current post-residential school/present-day reconciliation reality, Rogers’ poems are expansive and intimate, challenging, thought-provoking and always personal.This poetry reading will take place in the exhibition surrounded by artworks in We Come to Witness, adding a new voice to conversation between Assu and Carr.