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Join Curtis Carmichael, author, professional speaker, certified STEM elementary teacher and social entrepreneur, March 30th at 7pm ET for the launch of his book, Butterflies in the Trenches: The Hood, an Epic Bike Ride, and Finding Inspiration (Synergy Books). The event will take place at the Roof Garden in Toronto at Bloor and Dovercourt. You […]
Join Pamela Mordecai on Monday, March 27th at 6:30pm for the launch of the de book of Joseph (Mawenzi House), at Massey College in the Junior Common Room. Pamela will be joined by Ronald Cummings, Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, and will also be doing a reading and Q&A. Books will […]
Natasha Adiyana Morris is a soft-spoken, dramatic storyteller. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Toronto’s West End—in the most encouraging and full’up Jamaican household—being (h)extra is in her blood. Recognized for founding PIECE OF MINE Arts, an initiative that presents works in progress by Black play creators, she owes a great deal to the esteemed […]
Curtis Carmichael is the author of Butterflies in the Trenches—the World’s First Augmented Reality memoir and 2021 Best Indie Book Award Winner for Inspirational Non-Fiction. His cross-Canada cycling tour Ride for Promise raised funds for Toronto Community Housing afterschool programs and was featured in an award-winning documentary, CBC, Global News, CityNews, Your Morning, CP24 Breakfast […]
Join Margaret DeRosia on Wednesday, March 15th at 7pm ET to celebrate the launch of Eight Strings (Simon and Schuster Canada) at Glad Day Bookshop. Margaret will be reading from her enthralling debut novel, and will be available for a Q&A and book signing. The event doors will open at 7pm, but the bookshop will […]
A former waitress, ballerina, bookseller, and film publicist, Margaret DeRosia is a writer, editor, and historian originally from Michigan. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan and her PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where her dissertation, Detecting Desire: Envisioning Film Noir, […]
Learn More! Join author and playwright Suvendrini Lena and translator Dushy Gnanapragasam on Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm ET to celebrate the release of The Enchanted Loom (Playwrights Canada) at 1RG (1 Roof Garden Lane – northeast corner of Bloor and Dovercourt)! This free Toronto Lit Up event will feature a dramatized reading from the play by Bhavani Somasundaram, […]
Join S.K. Ali on Thursday, November 24 at 7pm ET to celebrate the release of Love From Mecca to Medina (Simon & Schuster) at A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (777 Bathurst Street, Toronto)! This free Toronto Lit Up event will feature a Q&A, short reading and book signing. Books will be available for purchase. On the trip of a […]
S. K. Ali is the author of Saints and Misfits, a finalist for the American Library Association’s 2018 William C. Morris Award and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle East Book Honor Award; and Love from A to Z, a Today show Read with Jenna Book Club selection. Both novels were named […]
Join George Elliott Clarke on Thursday, November 24 at 7pm ET to celebrate the release of Canticles III (MMXXII) (Guernica Editions) at Another Story Bookshop! This free Toronto Lit Up event will feature a conversation with George and Motion about the book and its significant themes, followed by a reading and book signing. Refreshments will be […]
Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric “colouring books” (Blue, Black, Red and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path); George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as […]
Join Nancy Lam on October 20 at 7pm ET to celebrate the release of The Loyal Daughter (At Bay Press) at Queen Books! This free Toronto Lit Up event will feature Nancy in conversation with Anika Chabra about this story of immigration and a woman’s true resilience. Host Anika Chabra is a co-founder of Root […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of Danee Wilson‘s debut novel, Murder at San Miguel (Radiant Press, 2022). The book launch will take place on Thursday, November 10 at 6:30pm in the Debates Room (#2034) at the University of Toronto’s Hart House. Books will be for sale at the launch. Light refreshments will be provided […]
Danee Wilson grew up on the prairies in Regina, Saskatchewan. She completed a BA Hons in Spanish at the University of Calgary before moving to Spain to teach English. Inspired by the unidentified remains entombed in El Valle de los Caídos (The Valley of the Fallen), and hoping to work in the recovery and identification […]
Join author and tattoo artist Chris MacDonald on Friday, October 21 at 7:00pm ET at the Dakota Tavern at 249 Ossington Ave, Toronto, for the launch The Things I Came Here With: A Memoir (ECW Press, 2022). The launch will feature performances by Hamilton Trading Co. and LeBarons. This remarkable memoir examines what tattooing means […]
