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June 27, 2025 - June 29, 2025 @ 1:30pm - 6:30pm - Victoria University at the University of Toronto - 73 Queens Park #106, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7 - https://festivalofauthors.ca/motive-2025/
MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival
Something wicked this way comes to Toronto’s literary scene. MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival (hosted by Toronto Festival of Authors) will return for its fourth spine-tingling year from June 27 to 29, ...
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June 11, 2025Read an Excerpt From the Vibrant New Picture Book, Unnaturally Blue
Our featured title today is an enthralling, inventive picture book by two lauded artists. It's a story about finding your way back to yourself, where the text and art work beautifully to immerse the reader. Dorson ...
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June 10, 2025A Ragtag Group of Liberated Performers Face Down a Vicious Tyrant in SHOW
Prolific, award-winning author Shane Peacock turns his skills back to YA fiction this spring with a new novel that is as inventive as it is fitting for the world we're living in right at this very moment.Set ...
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June 04, 2025The Winner of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Has Been Announced!
A very fancy and inspiring evening at the Griffin Poetry Prize awards has concluded, and Psyche Running by Karen Leeder (translated from the German written by Durs Grünbein) has won the 2025 edition ...
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June 04, 2025Jordana Globerman Makes a Stunning Debut with the Beautiful and Heady Graphic-Novel, Soul Machine
Comic book writer and illustrator Jordana Globerman makes a stunning debut this season with her new graphic novel, Soul Machine (Annick Press). It's a profound and stirring work that is being billed ...
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June 02, 2025Three Emerging Writers Win the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Awards
This evening at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, three Bronwen Wallace Awards were handed out to some exciting emerging authors, in the categories of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Capping ...
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May 30, 2025Bindu Suresh's New Novel, The Road Between Us, is a Complex Lover’s Knot of a Novel that Spans Continents and Decades
Seasoned journalist Bindu Suresh has written hundreds of articles for various newspapers, and has a wealth of lived-in experience in unique cities around the world. All of which is on full display in ...
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May 29, 2025The Fragments that Remain Tells a Story of Love, Grief, and Hope Through One Young Person's Letters to a Lost Sibling
Uniquely told through letters and poems, our featured title today is a captivating YA story full of hope and heart. It is the debut novel from author and educator Mackenzie Angeconeb, balancing grief ...
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May 28, 2025Tim Welsh's Debut Novel, Ley Lines, is a Refreshing, Intimate Take on Frontier Life
Readers have seen frontier tales about the gold rush and mining boom towns before, many of which carry familiar tropes and trappings. But, our featured author today has written an original work that upends ...
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May 26, 2025The Key to Publishing a Book: Being a Staunch Celebrationist
Writing a book takes forever. Or, it does for me. I always think I’ll be able to crack the code for the next one, and write faster and be more efficient, but the reality is, it takes me five years to ...
