Toronto Lit Up: Nine Dash Line by Emily Saso Join Emily Saso on Thursday, September 8 at 6pm ET at Tranzac Club to celebrate the launch of Nine Dash Line (Freehand Books, September 2022)! The free Toronto Lit Up event will feature an interview with the author from Becky Toyne. Snacks are free, and drinks will be served by the Tranzac Club. Please review the venue’s COVID policy here. Masks are […] Read more »
Half-Life of a Stolen Sister Reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell—from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths. A form-shattering novel by an author praised as “laugh-out-loud hilarious and thought-provokingly philosophical” (Boston Globe). How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering […] Read more »
Two for the Road For readers of Emily Henry, Gail Honeyman and Josie Silver, a tender, funny and wise new novel about a romance bookshop owner who embarks on the adventure–or misadventure–of a lifetime in search of her own happily ever after.** Sometimes there are detours on the road to love . . . Beyond the walls of […] Read more »
Toronto Lit Up: Burr by Brooke Lockyer […] on Queen St. West. This is free Toronto Lit Up event will be hosted by Daniel Scott Tysdal and feature readings from the author as well as Emily Anglin. There will also be music and tarot readings by Nyssa, and magic by Mysterio the Magnificent. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Type […] Read more »
Toronto Lit Up: Performing Female Blackness by Naila Keleta-Mae […] Booklist and Blackhurst Cultural Centre. Naila will be introduced by Siobhan McMenemy from Wilfred Laurier University Press and the event will feature readings from Ordena Stephens-Thompson and Emily Radcliffe. There will be a conversation with the author and a Q&A session. This is a free Toronto Lit Up event. Light refreshments will be available. […] Read more »
Past IV Programme Fellows […] Johannes Holmqvist, Managing Director and Acquiring Editor, Tranan Publishing House (Sweden) Allison Malecha, Senior Scout, Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting (USA) Stephanie Sinclair, Literary Agent, CookeMcDermid (Canada, Indigenous) Emily Wunderlich, Editor, Viking (USA) Lizbeth Zavala Mondragón, Publishing Coordinator, Herder Mexico (Mexico) Louisa Joyner, publishing director, Faber UK Eloise Millar, co-founder, Galley Beggar Press (U.K.) Florence […] Read more »
Novel Experiences […] power of stories as the great revealers of truth. In illuminating conversation, two leading Spanish-language writers discuss making a mark on the literary world, their writing journeys to date and feeling the undeniable need to put pen to paper. Moderated by Emily Donaldson. Presented with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute. Basque Culture logo Read more »
In the Deep Dark […] constable husband as they slowly settle into a new life in a small, tight knit community set in its ways. In Porter’s Gull Island, an estranged daughter sifts through her family’s murky past and dusty memories in their dilapidated cottage on a remote island, surrounded by the whispers of something sinister. Moderated by Emily Donaldson. Read more »
Brontës Reimagined […] the greatest novels of all time. With a playful approach to form, Rachel Cantor blends historical fact and imaginative fiction in a joyful celebration and reimagining of Emily, Charlotte and Anne, and the forces that shaped them as literary legends. Cantor will discuss her approach to the sisters’ stories, what she discovered in her […] Read more »
Shaping the Men That Shaped the World […] worked tirelessly to raise two of the most powerful players on the global stage of history: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Packed with keen social and historical insight, this dual biography paints a captivating portrait of the women who shaped the men that shaped the world as we know it. Moderated by Emily Donaldson. Read more »