Join The Children’s Book Bank for the exciting launch of Zenia Wadhwani’s Fly in the Chai (Penguin Random House Canada)! Happening at Daniel Spectrum from 2–4 PM the event includes a High Chai celebration and a lively Q&A moderated by Sangita Patel. Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International […]
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Friends and fellow comics fans, join Jessica Campbell and Jillian Tamaki at Flying Books (784 College St.) in Toronto on Monday, March 23 at 6:30pm where she launches her underground cult classic HOT OR NOT: 20th CENTURY MALE ARTISTS—now in hardcover. Jessica sits down with fellow cartoonist Jillian to possibly debate whether men should be […]
When it comes to finances, single people can’t seem to get a break: whether that’s taxes, housing, retirement, or something as simple as a hotel room. With The Singles Tax, Renée Sylvestre-Williams uses her expertise as a financial journalist and a single person to explain how things got this way and what we can do […]
Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of The Singles Tax: No-Nonsense Financial Advice for Solo Earners by Renée Sylvestre-Williams (ECW Press). The event will take place at the Marketplace Theatre at The Well at 6:30pm. There will be a fireside chat with the author, hosted by Lora Grady from the Toronto Star. Afterwards, […]
Join us February 27 at 7pm for the launch of The Lost Queen by Heidi von Palleske (Dundurn Press). Taking place at the Tranzac Club, the author will be joined in conversation by Rod Carley (author of Ruff and Kinmount). There will also be live music, readings, a video presentation, and an audience Q&A. Refreshments […]
Join us for the launch of Alison Gadsby‘s Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions). The author will be joined in conversation with Hollay Ghadery, author of The UnRavelling of Ou. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Another Story Bookshop. Doors open at 6:00 PM, event begins at 6:30 PM. Book […]
Join us February 5 at 7pm for the launch of Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal (House of Anansi). Ashraf will be in conversation with author Saeed Teebi (Her First Palestinian, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination). Refreshments will be available including food from Palestine Bakeshop. Books will be available for purchase on site courtesy of […]
Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett (Talonbooks). The event will take place at Supermarket Bar and Variety in Kensington Market at 7pm. bill will do a reading accompanied by an improvisational musician, followed by a Q&A. Joining bill throughout the evening will be poets […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.
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 […]
