About the Author
Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin was born in St. Lucia. She has had work published in literary journals including Room, The Puritan, This Magazine, Arc, CV2 and The City Series #3: Toronto Anthology. She has been an arts administrator and community advocate for close to two decades. Lubrin has contributed to the podcast On The Line, hosted by Kate Sutherland for The Rusty Toque. She studied at York University where she won the President's Prize in poetry and the Sylvia Ellen Hirsch Memorial Award in creative writing. Lubrin holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and teaches at Humber College. She lives in Whitby, Ontario.
After running this weekly column since our opening in 2014, This Week in Lit Events is retiring in favour of a sleek new events calendar! The best part: you get to submit literary happenings in your area.
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If you live in southern Ontario or Victoria and love reading series, you're in luck! Check out our literary listings for this week and get your January poetry and fiction on.
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This week we brought you book picks from some of the coolest authors around to help you find the best book gifts, spilled the holiday beans about Bingemas, and upped our book-safety knowledge.
Featuring hand-picked selections by authors we admire for all the readers on your holiday gift list, our Gift Guide Week is as lit as it gets. Today, poetry powerhouse Canisia Lubrin gets lit-picky with three book picks for best friends, brothers, and nieces.
This week the 2017 QWF Literary Awards shortlists were announced (go indies!), the lids came off our '80s and '90s ALU Time Capsule, and some beautiful fall books were unveiled.
There are three major seasonal launches happening this week in Toronto, plus plenty more events in other parts of Ontario and Quebec.
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Did someone say "launch season"? Spring is officially here with great launches and readings in Toronto and St. John's this week.
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I need family. I want community.
I need to read. I want to be read.
(from Shannon Webb-Campbell “Needs vs Wants” Still No Word)
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Not enough literary festivals last week for you? Check out this week, with festivals in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Toronto. But that's not all!
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