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.
See more details belowUnlike 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.
Toronto
Common Readings, January Edition
Where: Belljar Cafe, 2072 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
When: 8pm
More 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/
Toronto
Art Bar Poetry Series
Where: The Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON
When: 8pm
More 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/
Toronto
Pivot Reading Series at the Steady
Where: The Steady Cafe and Bar, 1051 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON
When: 8pm
More 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.
Vancouver
Incite!
Where: Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC
When: 7:30pm
More 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.
Toronto
HIJ House Reading Series, The Season 3 opener
Where: BookThug HQ/aka Chez Millar, 260 Ryding Avenue, Toronto, ON
When: 2-5pm
More 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/
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