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This Week in Lit Events – May 16th-22nd
Events in Cote-St-Luc, Yorkton, Vancouver, Regina, Toronto… and lots of them! If you’re in Vancouver, be sure to check out our pals at the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series – they have a great lineup for their Spring Showcase.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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Events in Cote-St-Luc, Yorkton, Vancouver, Regina, Toronto… and lots of them! If you’re in Vancouver, be sure to check out our pals at the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series – they have a great lineup for their Spring Showcase.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.
VancouverReal Vancouver Writers’ Series Spring ShowcaseWhere:Â Untitled Art Space, 436 Columbia St, Vancouver, BCWhen:Â 7pm
More information: Real Vancouver Writers’ Series: Spring Showcase 2016 brings the brightest lights in the city’s literary scene to the Untitled Art Space on Columbia Street for an evening of great people, exquisite writing, and craft beverages. Several of these writers are supporting new work, noted below. Here’s our amazing line-up for the evening:
Fraser Nixon, Straight to the Head, Arsenal Press, 2016
Matthew Walsh, works in progress
Andrea Warner, We Oughta Know, Eternal Cavalier Press, 2015
Elena Johnson, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra, Gaspereau Press, 2015
Look at that line-up of talent! Crushing. Just crushing.
Hosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Sean Cranbury. Doors at 7PM. Admission PWYC.
Côte Saint-Luc, QCElaine Kalman Naves ReadingWhere: Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, 5851 Boul Cavendish, Côte Saint-Luc, QCWhen: 7pmMore information: Elaine Kalman Naves will discuss the experience and challenge of writing her first work of fiction, The Book of Faith, long-listed for the 2016 Leacock Award for Humour. The author of seven previous works of critically praised non-fiction, will read from her novel, which is set in Jewish Montreal at the turn of the twenty-first century.This event is free of charge.Regina, SKCarla Braidek & Mary Maxwell ReadingWhere: Room 207, The University of Regina – Luther College, Wascana Parkway, Regina, SKWhen: 7:30pmMore information: Carla Braidek (A Map in My Blood) and Mary Maxwell (Wind Leaves Absence) read from their new poetry collections at Luther College, University of Regina.
