About the Author
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys is the author of three previous books of poetry: Gods and Other Mortals(Brick 1986), Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios (Brick 1990), and The Perils of Geography (Brick 1995). Her novel Leaving Earth (HarperCollins 1997) has been published in seven countries and won the 1998 City of Toronto Book Award. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.
This Top 10 we’re taking a look at writing about places and how they change: whether through human change like development and urban planning, or natural change.
Don't miss festivals like Vancouver Writers' Fest, International Festival of Authors, Bookfest Windsor, and the Stratford Writers' Festival, all starting this week!
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Happy holiday! Because literary events are naturally more scarce in the summertime, we've lumped August together into a supersized, coast-to-coast literary listing! Set your calendar to "month" and plan for these great events.
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If you live in the GTA, Ontario, there are two HUGE festivals going on this week: the FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity) in Brampton, and Pages UnBound Literary Festival in the city centre. If you're not in Toronto, don't you fret - there's lots more readings ... Read more
There's tons going on this week, including Vancouver Writers' Fest, our second LPG40 event, this time in Montreal, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto and surrounding area. BUT: if you go and do anything this week, make sure you VOTE first. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. ... Read more
Word on the Street Toronto and Word Vancouver are this week, but if you don't live in those two cities, no problem. There's something literary going on almost everywhere!
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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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