Christina Wong is a playwright, prose writer and a multidisciplinary artist who also works in sound installation, audio documentaries and photography. Her plays have been performed at Factory Studio, Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace and Palmerston Library Theatre. Her work has also appeared in TOK Magazine, the Toronto Star, and on CJRU 1280AM. Christina grew up […]
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Join author Camille Hernández-Ramdwar on May 24 at 6pm ET for the launch of her short story collection Suite As Sugar and Other Stories (Dundurn Press). Camille will be in conversation with Sheila Murray, author of Finding Edward. This is a free, Toronto Lit Up event and will run until 8pm. Books will be available for […]
Suite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma. From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting […]
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is an author, scholar, and independent consultant. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugar was published by Rare Machines/Dundurn Press in 2023. Her earlier work appeared in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction; Mercury Retrograde; and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada. Camille is […]
Join poet Kate Siklosi on April 20 at 7pm for the launch of her latest book, Selvage (Invisible Books). Hosted by Eric Schmaltz, this free Toronto Lit Up event will take place at Type Books Junction and feature readings from Rasiqra Revulva, Dani Spinosa, Stephen Cain and Andy Weaver. Doors open at 6:30pm and readings […]
We don’t choose the stories we inherit, but we can stitch new futures from the threads of our past. Selvage is a work of salvaging and selving, of salvaging a self from disparate elements. Fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the language of trees talking to one another through mycelial networks, familial […]
Join author and poet Jake Byrne on May 21 at 1pm at Little Ghosts Bookstore & Cafe for the launch of their poetry collection Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (Wolsak & Wynn). This free Toronto Lit Up event will feature readings by the author as well as Kess Mohammadi and Rasiqra Revulva. Snacks and refreshments […]
Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin is a swirl of energy, emotion and observation that takes the reader across the world on a Carmen Sandiego–like journey as well as deep into the complexities of modern queer life. Unabashedly sexual, and embracing a wide range of styles and tones, Byrne’s poems move easily from lines of love […]
Jake Byrne is a poet and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Their work has been published in journals and anthologies in North America. Their poem “Parallel Volumes” won CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize for 2019, and their first two books of poetry are forthcoming in 2023 with Wolsak & Wynn and in 2024 with Brick Books, […]
Join Brooke Lockyer on May 4 at 7pm ET for the launch of her book Burr (Nightwood Editions) at Larry’s Folly on Queen St. West. This free Toronto Lit Up event will be hosted by Phoebe Wang and feature readings from the author as well as Emily Anglin. There will also be music and tarot […]
Brooke Lockyer holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. in English in the Field of Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She was the winner of the Hart House Literary Contest and the co-recipient of both the Peter S. Prescott and the Lenore Marshall Barnard prizes for prose. Her work has been […]
Meet local authors and join them in celebrating the launch of new books! The Toronto International Festival of Authors has partnered with the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) on Toronto Lit Up: a multi-year initiative designed to spotlight local writers and empower them with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2023, Toronto Lit Up has […]
Join Thao Lam and Carey Sookocheff on Saturday, April 15 at 2pm ET at Queen Books for their joint book birthday party! Both Thao and Carey will be reading from their books and attendees will get to participate in making crafts and other party activities. This is a free Toronto Lit Up event. Snacks and […]
Alice keeps a perfectly round skipping stone in her pocket to remember her grandfather by — but the stone goes missing. It looked just like a regular stone, but Alice knew it was different: It was perfectly round so you could use it to trace circles, and sometimes she could trick her dad into thinking […]
How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday! A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year—their birthday! Early-morning excitement gives way to shyness at the arrival of guests, hunger for […]
Carey Sookocheff is the author and illustrator of Lost Things, Wet and Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems. She is also the illustrator of the Buddy and Earl series, written by Maureen Fergus. She lives in Toronto, Ontario with her family and her dog, Rosie.
Thao Lam is the best-selling, critically acclaimed author/illustrator of THAO, Wallpaper, My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Skunk on a String and The Paper Boat, named a best book of 2020 by Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal, the Globe and Mail, CBC and others. She studied illustration at Sheridan College and has an insatiable love of coloured […]
Join author and playwright Natasha Adiyana Morris on May 1 at 6pm ET at the Blackhurst Cultural Centre for the launch of her play, The Negroes Are Congregating (Playwrights Canada Press). Doors for the event will open at 6pm and refreshments will be available. There will be a reading of the play performed by actors Dennis […]
Meet local authors and join them in celebrating the launch of new books! The Toronto International Festival of Authors has partnered with the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) on Toronto Lit Up: a multi-year initiative designed to spotlight local writers and empower them with career-building opportunities. Toronto Lit Up book launches are open to the public […]
Kate Siklosi is a poet, scholar, publisher and teacher who lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory/Toronto, Canada. Her work includes leavings (Timglaset 2021), which sold into its second printing, and six chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has been featured across North America, Europe and the UK. She is also Sessional Faculty […]
Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless, and the author-illustrator of two picture books, including most recently Our Little Kitchen. With her cousin Mariko Tamaki, she is the co-creator of the young adult graphic novels […]
