Join us at Another Story Bookshop on May 26 for the launch of The Northern by Jacob McArthur Mooney (ECW Press). The author will be joined by Alexis von Konigslow and Andrew Forbes for readings. Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight […]
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Join us for an illuminating evening with Dr. Roberta Bondar, the world’s first neurologist in space and the first female Canadian astronaut, who will be discussing her latest book, Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight (Figure 1 Publishing). In Space for Birds, the lives and habitats of two majestic bird species — the endangered Whooping […]
Warm up your vocal chords and join us May 15 at Queen Books for the launch of Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulos (Invisible Publishing). The party will start at 6:30pm with a reading and discussion with the author, followed by a raucous party featuring bookstore karaoke! Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the […]
On April 29, join us at Woody’s for the launch of The Fabulous Edweena by Edwin Dumont (Second Story Press). This is sure to be an entertaining event featuring Kitten Kaboodle (crowned Miss Congeniality on Season 4 of Canada’s Drag Race) as the MC for the night! The event starts at 7pm and you won’t want […]
Join us April 26 at 2pm in celebrating the launch of Tamla T. Young‘s debut picture book, Ready, Set, Mango! (OwlKids Books), illustrated by Raz Latif. The event will take place at A Different Booklist/Blackhurst Cultural Centre. Come for a fun and interactive read-aloud, a book signing, and plenty of music, movement, and family fun! Toronto […]
Come to Queen Books on April 25 for the launch of Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor (House of Anansi). The author will be joined by Sanna Wani for readings, followed by a conversation and Q&A period moderated by Furqan Mohamed. Doors open at 6pm with readings starting at 6:30pm. Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, […]
Maggie Helwig (she/they) is a white settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, and is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks, most recently Girls Fall Down (Coach House, 2008), which was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, and was chosen as the One Book Toronto in 2012. Helwig is a long-time social justice activist, and also an Anglican […]
An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. They […]
Join us at Society Clubhouse on April 24 at 7pm for the launch of Skin by Catherine Bush (Goose Lane Editions). The event will be an in-conversation with host Martha Baillie, and includes a screening of a short film inspired by the title story by experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. Books will be for sale courtesy of […]
Join us April 4 at 7pm for the launch of The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse by Vinh Nguyen (HarperCollins Canada) at Society Clubhouse. This will be a special event with a celebrated author panel sharing readings and a moderated discussion, featuring Souvankham Thammavongsa, Kyo Maclear, Pacinthe Mattar and Asha Jeffers. Books will be for sale […]
An empathetic, funny, and sharply critical collection of essays exploring the Christian pop culture of the 2000s and its influence on today’s politically powerful evangelicalism In 1999, after three years of secular living in Eastern Europe, Joelle Kidd moved back to Canada and was enrolled in the strange world of an evangelical Christian school. In Jesusland, […]
Kid Haile is an artist of Ethiopian descent born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. After obtaining a degree in biological sciences from the University of Guelph, his continued interest in beauty and the narratives surrounding images of value pulled him back to the arts, leading him to study at the Florence Academy of Art. Sometimes […]
Farah Ghafoor is an award-winning poet living on the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Her work was awarded the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, is taught in university courses, and published in The Walrus, […]
I use a fork to eat my broccoli, and a spoon to scoop up deeelicious mac-and-cheese … but sometimes I eat with my hands! The little girl in this story, Feven, along with her little brother, isn’t afraid of trying new foods like broccoli, watermelon and mac-and-cheese. But for each meal she needs to decide: […]
Jacob McArthur Mooney’s work has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Trillium Award in Poetry. An MFA graduate from the University of Guelph, he lives in Toronto with his partner, the novelist Alexis von Konigslow, and their son. The Northern is his fifth book and first novel.
This haunting exploration of love and desire, disability and madness, and trauma and recovery, is a diaristic marvel for fans of Annie Erneaux. Weaving personal memory with magic realism and folklore, Iris and the Dead asks: What if you could look back and tell someone exactly how they changed the course of your life? For our narrator, […]
As the children of a single mother who immigrated from the Philippines, Laura and Claire have always been exceptionally close. That is, until Claire moves to San Francisco for a startup job in Silicon Valley while Laura and her husband remain in Toronto and decide to start a family. Enter the slow, hopeful, devastating process […]
“The Northern is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that brings a unique time in sports history to life.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Fake and The Best Kind of People “W.P. Kinsella has company: Jacob Mooney has written another classic Canadian novel about baseball.” — Ben Lindbergh, co-host of Effectively Wild and author of The MVP Machine and The Only […]
Matteo L. Cerilli (he/him) is a transmasc author and activist who specializes in speculative fiction for all ages. His work includes the YA horror Lockjaw, middle grade ghost story Something’s Up with Arlo, a featured horror short story in Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, and poetry in Augur magazine. He currently […]
Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. From a mound of simple dirt, through magic and intention, the world we know today slowly takes shape across the page. Retold […]
Hajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has been published in The Ex-Puritan, Brick Magazine, Room Magazine, and Joyland.
Tamla T. Young is an award-winning social justice educator, author, and multipotentialite. Essentially, she is a jill-of-all-trades who is on a journey to master at least one. For now, her focus is on writing for children. Ready, Set, Mango! is her debut picture book. As a child of the Caribbean diaspora, raised in North America; […]
The lives and habitats of two majestic bird species are shared through striking space, aerial, and surface photographs to artfully convey the fragile elegance of life on Earth. New perspectives can inspire us to think differently about our place in the universe. The first photos of Earth from space showed the home of all known […]
Joelle Kidd is a writer, award-winning journalist, and editor living in Toronto. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in outlets including The Walrus, LitHub, Catapult, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and This Magazine. Joelle holds an MFA from the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing program. Jesusland is her first book.
