Reshaping the world through stories.
Join us online October 21–31 and beyond
Interviews
Toxic Truths: Lola Akinmade Åkerström & Helen Walsh
October 22 at 3:30pm
Bewilderment: Richard Powers in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
October 23 at 2:30pm
From Novels to Poetry: Megan Gail Coles & Jen Sook Fong Lee
October 21 at 9pm
Journeys and Generations: Maisy Card and Lauren Francis-Sharma
October 23 at 5pm
Origin of a Deadly Pandemic: Elaine Dewar
October 22 at 5pm
Bryan Doerries in Conversation with Margaret Atwood
October 28 at 6:30pm
Performances
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in Concert
October 21 at 8:30pm
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
October 25 at 8:30pm
October 31 at 8:30pm
October 27 at 8:30pm
Global Spin on the Slam: International Spoken Word Showcase
October 29 at 8:00pm
October 23 at 8:30pm
TIFA Kids
Love in the Afteryoon: David Yoon & Nicola Yoon
October 30 at 4:00pm
Literary Death Match - TIFA Kids Edition
October 24 at 2:30pm
Catch the Hip-hop Bug: Khodi Dill
October 22 at 2:00pm
The Fabulous Zed Watson! with Basil & Kevin Sylvester
October 23 at 10:30am
Beetling About with Ashley Spires
October 31 at 12:30pm
Illustrating for Children – An Artist’s Experience
October 23 at 1:00pm
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is Canada’s longest-running literary festival, a charitable cultural organization. It presents the finest of Canadian and international writers, artists and thinkers across the range of literary genres from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to plays, graphic novelists and illustrators. It enables audiences access and empowerment to meet, hear and learn from the finest contemporary writers and thinkers of our time.
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