Events listing

Join Gordon Hill Press on Sunday October 3 at 2:00 PM EDT for our 2021fall launch, featuring readings by MLA Chernoff, Kevin Heslop, and Aaron Schneider. There will also be opportunity for some Q&A with the authors, so bring your questions.

The event is free, but you'll need ...

Join Dundurn Press for the launch of our new literary imprint, Rare Machines!

This virtual event will begin with an introduction from Acquiring Editors Russell Smith and Julie Mannell, followed by an opportunity to meet the debut lineup of Rare Machines: our Fall 2021 authors! ...

Join ECW Press as we celebrate the launches of three incredible poetry collections this Fall, 2021. Rik Emmett (Reinvention), George Murray (Problematica), and Adam Sol (Broken Dawn Blessings) celebrate their newest works with a night of poetry, music, and conversation.

You're invited to the virtual book launch of Mark Frutkin's latest novel, The Artist and the Assassin!

The Porcupine's Quill is teaming up with Ottawa-area indie bookseller Perfect Books to preset the launch of The Artist on Saturday on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. EST via ...

Join us for the launch of Ted Cadsby's latest book, Hard To Be Human, featuring a discussion and participant Q&A with BNN Bloomberg's Amanda Lang.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Rowan McCandless's Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2021: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival and featuring a conversation hosted by Whitney French.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium ...

Join authors Adam Nayman and Frederick Blichert in conversation as they discuss the cult classic films Showgirls and Jennifer's Body, how we perceive films, and how that changes over time.

One lucky attendee will win a set of our entire Pop Classics Series! https://ecwpress.com/collections/pop-classics-series ...

Join Playwrights Canada Press for a showcase of readings from Canadian playwrights and translators in celebration of their newly published plays!

Featuring:

OLIVIER SYLVESTRE & BOBBY THEODORE (The Law of Gravity)
MARIE-CLAUDE VERDIER & ALEXIS DIAMOND (Andy's Gone)
ANDREA MAPILI ...

The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration is the much-anticipated new book from celebrated Canadian writer and performer Shawn Hitchins, author of the hilarious A Brief History of Oversharing (ECW Press) and his one-man show, Ginger Nation.

In this deeply ...

The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is Canada’s largest and longest-running literary festival, presented with a vision to inspire, empower and connect through the art of stories. Join us annually every fall, to meet, hear and learn from the world’s leading ...

What makes characters compelling? Is it relatability? Mystery? Complexity? Incongruity? All of the above? Conversely, what makes a character forgettable? In this masterclass, we will consider some forgettable and unforgettable characters and what combination of factors made ...

This talk will explore the potential of constraints to humble and liberate. Through a combination of exercises and close-readings, we will reimagine creation as an act of curiosity and problem-solving.

The Humber School for Writers returns to the Festival with a series of daily ...

This is a class about the construction of unforgettable sentences. Using examples from Toni Morrison, Garth Greenwell, and a host of other writers, we’ll take a look at how to put together a single thought, a string of thoughts, or in some cases an entire constellation of ...

When you’re in the early stages of a novel, there’s a lot of stuff they tell you not to sweat. Author Tim Wynne-Jones wants to talk about when it’s finally time – to sweat, that is. The time when you go from revising to refining. He will lead an exploration of momentum, ...

The modern picture book has become one of the most versatile and popular of literary formats and many of its elements can be applied to longer forms of writing. Through the world of visual storytelling, explore the intricate relationship between text and illustration with celebrated ...

Join the virtual launch of THE DEVIL TO PAY, an Inspector Green Mystery by Barbara Fradkin.

Barbara Fradkin is a Canadian crime writer and retired psychologist with a fascination for why we turn bad. After a hiatus of seven years, her award-winning series featuring impetuous, ...

Language possesses the unique capacity for the figurative–wherein one thing is compared to another to clarify and vivify. But what makes a good metaphor or simile and where do they come from? Using examples from prose, poetry and song, we will explore the satisfactions, frustrations ...

Playwright and director Jordan Tannahill, shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize, leads a masterclass in playwriting, focused on how to craft texts imbued with liveness – active, spatial, temporal, and audience-minded.

The Humber School for Writers returns to the ...

Author Kaie Kellough thinks a lot about narrators, about how every story is narrated from a perspective. That perspective may determine what the narrator sees and what they don’t, and may influence the version of events they recount. Kellough’s interested in how writers ...

East Meets West: Mirrors and Windows, online reading with Allan Briesmaster, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Richard Greene, Kateri Lanthier and Anna Yin

Oct 29, Fri. 20:00-21:00 (in Toronto time)

Host: Sureway Cultural Services

Co-Host: CPAC (formerly Chinese Professionals Association ...

Telling stories is at the core of every culture. Join author Waubgeshig Rice as he discusses how the spoken stories of his Anishinaabe heritage influence his writing, and how he shares them in fiction. He’ll share tips on adapting oral traditions to written forms, with a focus ...

Some writing workshops have very concrete things to teach you, but this workshop with author Sheila Heti will have very abstract things to teach you. Writing is an abstract science that is fundamentally made up of intensely personal rules, not rules that any teacher can impart, ...

Welcome to gritLIT’s 2021 Fall Program

All events take will place online through Zoom.

Tune in for a weekend of fall programming featuring writing workshops, author events, and interactive events.

Author talks offer a view into the minds of some of the most interesting writers ...