This week in book events: Toronto's
International Festival of Authors continues;
Canzine represents the best of Indie lit; Ken Rivard and Lori Hahnel have a double-launch in Calgary — and more!
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emily@lpg.ca to be included in our listings
This week in book events: Toronto's
International Festival of Authors continues;
Canzine represents the best of Indie lit; Ken Rivard and Lori Hahnel have a double-launch in Calgary — and more!
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, and time, to
emily@lpg.ca to be included in our listings
Monday, October 27
Ottawa
Chaudiere Books Launch with Roland Prevost, Amanda Earl and Monty Reid. Hosted by rob mclennan
When: 8pm
Where: Fox and Feather, 2nd Floor, 283 Elgin St., Ottawa
More Information: Chaudiere Books was recently relaunched by rob mclennan and new co-publisher Christine McNair, and the Ottawa Writer's Festival is proud to be launching their 2014 poetry titles.
When: Tuesday, October 28th 6:45p.m. Where: Black Squirrel Book, 1073 Bank Street, Ottawa More Information: Phil Hall will lead participants through an introduction to the works of Larry Eigner (1927-1996), an American poet with cerebral palsy. From his wheelchair, he typed with the thumb & finger of one hand. His 4 vol Collected Poems, recently published, is a revelation of constraint defied and made an asset. What constrains you? What cramps you shapes your line: physically, theoretically, emotionally. Eigner’s use of projected space will help us consider constraint & limitation as poetic factors. About Phil Hall: Raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, Phil Hall's most recent book of poems is Killdeer.
Ottawa Launch:
I Found It at the Movies with Ruth Roach Pierson
When: Tuesday, October 28th, reading 8 p.m.
Where: Black Squirrel Books, 1073 Bank Street More Information: Join us for the Ottawa launch of I Found It at the Movies: An Anthology of Film Poems (Guernica Editions, 2014), with editor Ruth Roach Pierson and readings by Ottawa-area poets Jacqueline Bourque, David Groulx, rob mclennan, Colin Morton, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Peter Richardson and Deborah-Anne Tunney.
Wednesday, October 29
Toronto
Pivot at the Press Club presents Ralph Kolewe, author of
Afterletters and Jess Taylor, author of the forthcoming short story collection Pauls
Also reading: Michael Lista, Mike Spry
Where: The Press Club
Address: 850 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
Time: 8:00 PM
Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney
PWYC. Suggested donation of $5.00 For more information, visit
https://www.facebook.com/events/266397160237739/
K.D. Miller at Roger's Trust Prize Finalist Reading
When: 7:30pm
Where: The Brigantine Room, Bill Boyle Artport, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
More Information: $18/$15 Supporters
The Writers’ Trust is one of the largest literary prize-giving organizations in the country, now annually awarding more than $240,500 to Canadian writers. For the sixth consecutive year, IFOA is proud to present the works nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Author Helen Humphreys hosts.
More Information: Ken Rivard and Lori Hahnel will have a double launch of Motherwild and After You've Gone.
Friday, October 31
Happy Halloween!
Saturday, November 1
Montreal
Launch of Donato Mancini's Loitersack
When: 9pm
Where: Studio Fivethousand Fingers, 201 - 305 Rue de Bellechasse, 9:00 pm. Free, book for sale, refreshments available.
Toronto
Canzine 2014: Festival of zine culture and independent arts
When: 1-7pm
Where: 918 Bathurst Centre, Toronto
More Information: Admission $5. Featuring appearances from BookThug's own Jay MillAr, Aisha Sasha John (THOU) andAmanda LeDuc (The Miracles of Ordinary Men), among others.
Where: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W., Toronto
More Information: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under. ECW authors Catherine Gildiner and John McFetridge will join Claire Holden Rothman to discuss their three books that each explore the October Crisis and the effects of the FLQ.
Jacob Scheier reading at IFOA
ECW poet Jacob Scheier will be reading from his latest collection,
Letter from Brooklyn, alongside David Adams Richards, Emma Donoghue, and Thomas King
When: 7:30pm
Where: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W., Toronto
Almonte, Ontario
BookThug and Mill Street Books presents a reading and book signing with Wanda Praamsma, author of
a thin line between
Where: Mill Street Books , 52 Mill St., Almonte, Ontario
When: from 4:30 PM
More Information: Free. Refreshments will be served. Books will be for sale.
More information.
More Information: Lori Hahnel, Barb Howard and Lee Kvern are celebrating their newest publications and successes with a gathering at the Owl's Nest.
Sunday, November 2
Montreal
Poetry reading with Louis Cabri (
Posh Lust), Ryan Fitzpatrick, Oana Avasilichioaei, and secret guests.
When: 7pm
Where: la Librairie Le port de tête, 262 Avenue du Mont-Royal Est., Montreal
Toronto
Guernica Editions will be celebrating their latest fall books to hit the shelves.
When: 4:00 PM
Where: The Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L9 More Information: Authors
Rosemary Clewes,
Edward Nixon, and
Michael Springate, along with translator Pierre L'Abbé will read from their work at this wonderful fall gathering. In addition, we will also be including the books of
Elise Turcotte (translator Andrea Moorhead), Fabiano Alborghetti,
Pablo Valdivia (translator Ross Woods), and José Acquelin (translator Hugh Hazelton).
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