Celebrate the best in contemporary Canadian literature at an evening showcasing the 2026 Giller Prize shortlisted authors. Join these exceptional authors as they read from their nominated works, share insights into their craft, and discuss the stories that earned them a place among Canada’s literary elite. Don’t miss this chance to discover the voices shaping the […]
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In this very special event, the great author, John Irving will be in conversation with Nazanine Hozar to discuss her Giller-longlisted novel, The Small Ones. This gripping fable tells the story of children who are caught up in a military insurgence along the Iran–Iraq border in the early 1980s. This ragtag group of boys and […]
Award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki takes her turn typing short stories in her latest work, The Typing Lady. The collection spans decades and countries, bringing together characters with the common thread: the written word. From letters to manuscripts to disappearing ink, each shows how much of ourselves we leave in stories and how much it connects […]
Join the Practicing Refusal Collective for a conversation about Thinking From Black: A Lexicon, a collection that brings together creatives, scholars, and thinkers to explore the many dimensions of Black life. Moving across disciplines and forms, the book takes words such as Anarchy, Care, Laughter and Sound as starting points for new ways of thinking […]
All the world is Shakespeare’s stage. Join Daniel Hahn and Ann-Marie MacDonald as they discuss translating and adapting the bard. Hahn is a translator who travelled the world talking about Shakespeare with actors and writers alike for his book If This Be Magic, discussing the challenges when it comes to translating meaning, rhythm, and clever […]
Journey through the familiar streets of Toronto and the distant land of California with Maria Cichosz and Alex Pugsley, as they discuss their novels set in the city we call home and beyond. Middlemen, Cichosz’ story set in the mid-2010s, is described as a “break-up letter to Toronto”, following Beau’s move to California to see […]
Join Gary Barwin and Ferdia Lennon for a conversation about comedy in the face of death, and the surprising ways humour can help us navigate grief, loss and suffering. In The Comedian’s Book of the Dead, Barwin presents Death as a comedian whose journey into the underworld forces him to confront love, loss and fatherhood. […]
Marie NDiaye is an award-winning author from France. Her psychologically incisive fiction explores identity, family, belonging, and displacement, often blending realism with the uncanny. Widely translated and internationally celebrated, Marie Ndiaye’s most recent English publication, The Witch, translated by Jordan Stump, was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize. The author will be in conversation […]
Raoul de Jong is an award-winning Dutch writer and his work has been translated into German, French, and English. He has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, and his novel Jaguarman was nominated for multiple awards. The author will be in conversation with Canisia Lubrin.
You’re in for a bloody good time with Craig DiLouie and Emily A. Weedon, as they discuss their classic stories of slashers and vampires. DiLouie’s The Summer Fun Massacre follows a Texas deputy investigating a new massacre at a summer camp where a deadly tragedy occurred nine years earlier and his connection to the case. […]
Enter the haunted house with Jessica Hamilton and Sophia Hannan as they discuss their thrilling stories where something is lurking just behind every door. In Hamilton’s The Woods, a grieving mother moves her family into a secluded house in the forest, only to discover that something ancient and malevolent may be lurking among the trees. […]
Murder. Romance. Dragons. Domestic suspense. Women aren’t just writing genre fiction — they are driving some of the biggest publishing phenomena in the world. From crime and thrillers to romance, romantasy, horror and speculative fiction, women writers and readers have transformed genres once dismissed as formulaic or frivolous into cultural and commercial powerhouses. But why […]
Home is more than a commodity; it is the foundation of our lives and communities. In Housing Inc.: A Global Takeover and Our Fight for Home, the 2026 CBC Massey Lecture, Leilani Farha examines how homes around the world have increasingly been treated as financial assets, with devastating consequences for affordability and access. Farha explores […]
Join bestselling historical fiction author Paula McLain for a conversation on her latest novel, Skylark. Set in Paris, the story follows two characters from different time periods, whose lives run parallel and intertwine. Alouette is fighting for art and justice for women in 1664, while Kristof is a medical student 1939, trying to navigate life […]
Andrew Sean Greer shot to success with his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less and its bestselling sequel, Less is Lost. His latest novel, Villa Coco sees a young American arriving in Tuscany expecting to catalogue art and instead finds himself swept into the eccentric world of an unforgettable Baronessa becoming the all-purpose assistant to a […]
Join Chloe Dalton and Melissa Harrison in conversation to discuss their books celebrating the lifechanging influence of the nature world. Dalton’s Raising Hare has been an award-winning bestseller in the UK and North America. It chronicles her journey rescuing a baby hare and the bond the unlikely pair builds as she nurses it back to […]
Join author Damian Barr as he talks about art, class, queer history, love and the forgotten lives that inspired his novel, The Two Roberts. Based on a true story, the book follows Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, two Scottish artists in the 1930s who kept their relationship private while being in the very public art […]
Political upheaval and personal identity collide in this compelling conversation between two daring novelists. In Gigi L. Leung’s Everyday Movement (translated by Jennifer Feeley), two university roommates and their circle of friends navigate their normal lives while also living through Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, confronting questions of identity, democracy, and belonging. In Intan Paramaditha’s Night […]
When the lives we’ve built no longer fit, what happens when we decide to break free? In Cheong Ye’s Orange and Bread Knife (translated by Slin Jung), a young teacher undergoes an experimental procedure that frees her from the guilt and emotional regulation that have shaped her life, but not without consequences. In Jenny Jackson’s […]
Art, ambition and the women erased from history take centre stage in this conversation between Jill Dawson and Camille de Peretti. In Portrait of an Unknown Woman, de Peretti imagines the life of the mysterious woman in Gustav Klimt’s famous portrait, her lost loves, descendants, and secrets. In Pixie, Dawson brings to life Pamela “Pixie” […]
When worlds are turned upside down what happens when the stories we leave behind take on lives of their own? Join Portia Elan, Huang Chong-Kai, and Jeremy Tiang as they discuss their speculative fiction novels. Told through different perspectives, Huang’s The Formosa Exchange (translated by Tiang) chronicles the lives of Taiwanese and Cuban residents who […]
Myth, magic and unreal expectations collide as Bar Fridman-Tell and Lindsay Wong discuss their genre-melding novels set around folklore and the supernatural. Loosely based on Welsh mythology, Fridman-Tell’s Honeysuckle follows Daye, a girl literally made from flowers as a friend for Rory, and their changing relationship as the seasons change and Rory grows up. Wong’s […]
Join two of modern literature’s most daring voices for an electrifying conversation on the mechanics of obsession and the weight of family legacies. In Floodlines Saleem Haddad’s sweeping, tension-filled novel set between London and Baghdad, domestic intimacy becomes a pressure cooker of family drama, hidden histories, and queer identity. Meanwhile, award-winning Canadian playwright, Jordan Tannahill’s […]
Join authors Randy Boyagoda and Priya Guns as they talk about their latest novels on class and wealth in immigrant communities. In Boyagoda’s Lords of Serendipity centres on two teenage girls from different backgrounds who both dream of attending Harvard, exposing inequality behind higher education and the sacrifices families make to get there. While in […]
