Just because launch season is slowing, it’s FAR from over: there’s Words festival in London, plus all the great reading series and launches you could ever hope to shake a stick at (though we don’t know why you would hope that, we respect your choices).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.
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Just because launch season is slowing, it’s FAR from over: there’s Words festival in London, plus all the great reading series and launches you could ever hope to shake a stick at (though we don’t know why you would hope that, we respect your choices).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.
Monday, November 2nd
St. Catherine’s, ON
Border Blur Reading SeriesWhere: Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: Border Blur Reading Series presents Shannon Maguire, author of Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina. Also reading: Jeff Latosik, Sachiko Murakami and Christopher Dewdney. Free.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1043081545756046/Halifax
Giller Between the PagesWhere: Dalhousie Arts Centre, Halifax, NSMore information: Through the Between the Pages presentations, readers will get a chance to peer inside the minds and creative lives of the writers who’ve made it onto the 2015 shortlist – Andre Alexis, Anakana Schofield, Samuel Archibald, and others. Each event will feature special guest appearances and entertainment drawn from each locale. Follow the link below for tickets.Link: https://kil-dacweb-3.cohn.dal.ca/online/Muenster, SKCarolyn Smart reads at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, SaskatchewanWhere: St. Peter’s College, 100 College Drive, Muenster, SKWhen: 7-9pmMore information: Carolyn Smart reads from her new collection, Careen at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, Saskatchewan. For more information, please contact Professor Barbara Langhorst. langhorstb@stpeters.sk.caToronto, ONPlaywrights Canada Press Fall LaunchWhere: The Garrison, 1197 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pm
More information:Â Join us on Monday, November 2 for a launch party and help us celebrate our fall season!Â
Hosted by Jon Kaplan and Susan G. Cole of NOW Magazine, the evening will include readings from this sweet and stellar lineup of authors:
Maja Ardal, HER2Â
Tony Burgess, PontypoolÂ
Brad Fraser, Kill Me NowÂ
Colleen Murphy, Pig GirlÂ
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, A Man A FishÂ
Priscila Uppal, 6 Essential QuestionsÂ
Anita Majumdar, Boys with Cars (from Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays)Â
Anusree Roy, Pyaasa (from Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays)
TorontoEunoia BalletWhere: Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Queens Quay West, Toronto, ONMore information: Poet Christian Bok’s seminal work of poetry, Eunoia, has become a ballet!SaskatoonTattered Outlaws: Two PoetsWhere: University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SKWhen: 4-6pmMore information: Poets Carolyn Smart and Jennifer Londry will read from their new poetry collections, respectively, Careen and Tatterdemalion, as part of the MFA in Writing’s Po-Vember poetry series.
Thursday, November 5th
TorontoShannon Maguire and Soraya Peerbaye Book LaunchWhere: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: Another Story Book Shop, in partnership with BookThug and Pedlar Press, invites you to a joint launch of Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina by Shannon Maguire (BookThug, 2015) and Tell: poems for a girlhood by Soraya Peerbaye (Pedlar, 2015). Featuring special guest David Bateman. Free. Refreshments will be served.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1509929515998008/Salmon Arm, BCMix Hart ReadingWhere: The Book Nook, 310 Ross St, Salmon Arm, BCWhen: 3:30-5:30pmMore information: Mix Hart continues her Queen of the Godforsaken tour with this stop at the Book Nook in Salmon Arm, BC, for a reading and book signing.Big River, SKJan Wood Book LaunchWhere: Big River Public Library, 606 1 St N, Big River, SKWhen: 7pmMore information: Join Jan Wood as she launches her new book, Love is not Anonymous, at Big River Public Library.Durham, ONScreening & Discussion: Blood is Blood, by Carolyn Marie Souaid & Endre FarkasWhere: Garafraxa Cafe, 131 Garafraxa Street S., Durham, ONWhen: 7-8pmMore information: Blood is Blood is a collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East, a version of which was commissioned for CBC Radio in 2006. Souaid, of Christian Lebanese descent, and Farkas, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors, give this piece a special resonance. The video-poem shows this powerful encounter between two poets from diametrically opposed backgrounds and world-views.
Friday, November 6th
Toronto
Toronto launch of Pauls by Jess TaylorWhere: The Steady Cafe, 1051 Bloor St W., Toronto, ONWhen: 7-10pmMore information: BookThug presents the Toronto launch of Pauls, the debut short story collection by Jess Taylor. Free.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/895139877220151/SaskatoonNew Leaf Authors Reading SeriesWhere: McNally Robinson Booksellers, 3130 8 St E, Saskatoon, SKWhen: 7pmMore information: Authors from Thistledown Press’ New Leaf series, including Shelley Banks, Tara Gereaux, and Jan Wood, read at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon.Durham, ONCarolyn Marie Souaid at Words Aloud 12Where: Durham Art Gallery, 251 George Street E, Durham, ONWhen: 7:30-9:30pmMore information: Carolyn Marie Souaid reads from her seventh poetry collection This World We Invented with Fortner Anderson and Charlie Demers.
Sunday, November 8th
Toronto
A Conversation with Eileen Myles and Julie JoostenWhere: Mercer Union, centre for contemporary art, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: BookThug, in partnership with Mercer Union and Toronto New School of Writing, present a full length reading with Eileen Myles. Julie Joosten, author of Light Light, will join Eileen in conversation following the reading.Myles will be reading in celebration of the release of I Must Have Lived Twice: New and Selected Poems, and the rerelease of her novel Chelsea Girls. This event is presented as part of Mercer Union’s ongoing fORUM critical conversation series. fORUM is a monthly series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings and performances at Mercer Union.Free. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Book City.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/181266722210490/London, ONWordsfest: A poet’s place: how poets explore the world with Laurie Graham & Andy McGuireWhere: Museum London, Ridout Street North, London, ONWhen: 11amMore information: Join us for a Writing Workshop with local luminaries Laurie D. Graham and Andy McGuire, hosted by Poetry London! Link: http://wordsfest.ca/event/poets-place-how-poets-explore-world-laurie-graham-andy-mcguire
