Toronto Lit Up and Book*hug Press present the Toronto launch of Go/No-Go: A Journey into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by Marianne Apostolides. Featuring a talk by Marianne, a theatrical performance by actors Rory Belcher, Paul Braunstein, and Jadyn Nasato, as well as a dance party with DJ Sulk Hogan. Refreshments will […]
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Join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias and Sophie Feng, for the launch of Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge (University of Alberta Press). The collection features an engaging blend of academic essays and creative works that examine how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas […]
Join us for the launch of As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories (House of Anansi)! With editor Terese Mason Pierre, Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, and DJ Myles, moderated by Victoria Mbabazi. A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. Edited by esteemed […]
Join author Kathy Stinson and illustrator Ellie Arscott for the launch of Levi’s Gift. This heartfelt picture book celebrates the healing power of music and the magic of intergenerational friendships. There will be a reading, signing, crafts and a performance by a young musician. Books will be available for purchase on site. Toronto Lit Up is […]
A big-hearted book from the beloved author of A Tulip in Winter celebrating the healing power of music and the magic of intergenerational friendships. Levi’s violin tells stories. It quietly sings the tragic song of how Levi lost his home and family to war. It also celebrates happy times, as Levi plays a lullaby for […]
Heidi von Palleske is a film actor and the author of Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack, a novel that explores themes of identity and history. Known for populating her stories with outcasts and misfits, Heidi’s work spans film, TV, and literature, often challenging societal norms. She lives in Toronto.
Hidden clues in a mysterious opera manuscript suggest the whereabouts of a long-disappeared opera singer. What do a champagne socialist opera director, an albino diva, a one-eyed journalist, a professor of economics, and two elderly Hungarian cancan dancers with ties to the French Resistance have in common? They are all searching for Clara. In 1992 […]
Jessica Campbell is from Victoria, British Columbia, and is an enthusiast of jokes, painting and comics. She completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, and also a comics instructor. She has exhibited work in Canada, the United States, Australia, […]
A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel. The sudden death of Hassan at the hands of an Israeli shakes his friends Aziz and Mustafa to their core, leaving them grappling with grief, guilt, and an uncertain future. Drawn into the orbit of Hassan’s father—a respected community […]
Marianne Apostolides is an award-winning author of eight books, which have been translated and published in over a dozen countries. Her books include I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind (finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in Science Fiction), Deep Salt Water, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 Books of […]
Myra Bloom is Associate Professor of English at York University’s Glendon College. Her scholarship and criticism are published in various academic and popular venues, including in a recent issue of The Walrus dedicated to the best arts and culture writing of the past 20 years. The collection Shelter in Text (U of Alberta Press), co-edited […]
Ashraf Zaghal is a Palestinian Canadian author. He has published four poetry collections and his work has been translated into English, French, and Hebrew. He edits an online magazine concerned with progressive literature and translations. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with an MFA in creative writing and lives between Toronto and Jerusalem.
Alison Gadsby is a first-generation Canadian, born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario. She graduated from York University with an HBA in English and Creative Writing and holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in various literary journals, including Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, and many more. […]
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. A woman attends her mother’s latest resurrection, only to encounter family she’s […]
Echoing the pandemic-era phrase “shelter in place,” and extending beyond it, this collection examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour. Through an engaging blend of academic essays and creative nonfiction, contributors interrogate the connections between the concepts of shelter and text, centering questions of care, disability, […]
Raised in the UK and Canada, Zenia Wadhwani grew up surrounded by books, inspiring in her, a deep love of reading and storytelling. Few of her books however, reflected the richness of her own experiences, so she co-edited three anthologies spotlighting emerging South Asian writers. Years later, a global pandemic, an approaching milestone birthday and […]
A hilarious send-up of the art world’s patriarchy The history of twentieth century art is filled with men, but one key component has always been missing: Which of these men are boneable? And which are not? Jessica Campbell has created the definitive resource on this very important subject in a hilarious rundown of male artist […]
Howie Shia is an illustrator, writer, and animation director. He has worked with Disney, Netflix, and the National Film Board of Canada. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his most excellent wife, two kindly children, too many books, and not enough drums.
bill bissett is a pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry. His electric readings are matched only by his prolific writing career – over seventy books of bissett’s poetry have been published. bissett won The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2003), and was appointed to the Order of Canada […]
A unique picture book adventure for music lovers of all ages about how to never be quiet, never give up, and never underestimate the power of percussion. Months have passed since the Grown-Ups were taken captive, forced to brush the teeth and scratch the backs of the Growlies. One day the children make a decision: […]
a novel uv pomes threding thru each othr th main charaktrs langwage n all uv us hedding off in all direksyuns ths book asks is langwage lost wev had creativ langwage almost 7 thousand yeers we still dont undr stand each othr veree well dew we want 2 thru th mysteree loves n rapturs speek […]
Combining scientific investigation with empathy, humour, and artistic curiosity, Go/No-Go is a groundbreaking addition to an urgent dialogue about mental health. In 2022, during a period of creative and emotional crisis, Marianne Apostolides stumbled upon a scientific article that would profoundly change her understanding of the human mind. Ten months later, she was interviewing the […]
Kasia Van Schaik is the author of the Giller-nominated story collection We Have Never Lived On Earth and the forthcoming book of memoir and cultural criticism, Women Among Monuments. With Myra Bloom, she is the co-editor of the essay collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge. Kasia’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, […]
Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive blurs the lines between horror, catastrophic speculative fiction, and psychological realism in a collection that might best be described as weird fiction. These connected stories offer dark reconstructions of lives brimming with desperate loneliness. They allow us to bear witness to the life-altering love of sisters, brothers, mothers… […]
