Festival 2022 Events
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A Song of Comfortable Chairs: Alexander McCall Smith
September 12 at 7:00pm
Answers in the Pages: David Levithan
September 24 at 4:30pm
As Glenn As Can Be: Nancy Vo
September 25 at 11:00am
Ask the Expert: Literary Trends in Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast
September 24 at 1:30pm
Ask the Expert: Taste of Iceland
September 25 at 5:00pm
Beneath the Veneer: André Forget & Naben Ruthnum
October 02 at 6:30pm
Canada’s Untold History: Andrew Hunter & Brian Martin
October 01 at 3:30pm
Canadian True Crime: Lyndsie Bourgon & Jon S. Dellandrea
October 01 at 8:00pm
Climate in Crisis: In Conversation with Nikki Sanchez, Challenging Climate Grief and Apathy
September 23 at 5:30pm
Colonial Interrogations Through Art: Omar Musa & Matthew James Weigel
September 24 at 11:00am
Critical Conversation: Changing the System, Not the Subject: Black Lives Matter in 2022
September 29 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: Continuing to Act: Reconciling, Not Reconciliation
October 02 at 7:00pm
Critical Conversation: Health: Future Care or Future Crises?
September 28 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: Our Digital Future: AI, Drones and the Metaverse
October 01 at 7:00pm
Critical Conversation: Russia: Why Now and What Next?
September 22 at 8:00pm
Critical Conversation: The Affordable City: Wealth and Wellbeing
September 25 at 7:00pm
Critical Conversation: The Arctic North: Defining the Climate’s Future
September 26 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: The New West: Europe from the Nordic frontier
September 23 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: The New Working Class
September 27 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: Tomorrow’s USA
September 30 at 7:30pm
Critical Conversation: Ukraine: National Crisis with a Global Impact
September 24 at 7:00pm
Dangerous Plots: Maureen Jennings & Donald S. Murray
October 02 at 2:00pm
Dead, Brilliant Ghost Stories with Kenneth Oppel & Sachiko Kashiwaba
September 24 at 1:00pm
Deconstructing Identity: Danny Ramadan & SJ Sindu
September 24 at 5:30pm
Desire & Defiance: Laura Lindstedt & David Pevsner
September 25 at 8:00pm
Diasporic Displacements: Jamie Chai Yun Liew & Tsering Yangzom Lama
September 27 at 8:30pm
Disinformation, Dictators & Democracy: Maria Ressa & Ronald Deibert
September 27 at 8:00pm
Do Androids Dream?: Victoria Hetherington & Olga Ravn
September 28 at 6:00pm
Dreams in Vantablack: Film Screening
September 22 at 7:30pm
Enlightened Histories: Larissa Lai & Shyam Selvadurai
September 29 at 8:30pm
Female Freedom: Martha Bátiz & Jessamine Chan
October 02 at 1:30pm
Fishing with Father: Mark Hume & Patrik Svensson
September 30 at 3:00pm
Fragile Connection: Rawi Hage & Alexander MacLeod
October 02 at 4:30pm
Fragmentary Perceptions: Céline Huyghebaert & Auður Jónsdóttir
September 24 at 6:30pm
Generational Ties: Lisa Moore & Donatella Di Pietrantonio
September 24 at 6:30pm
Healing Wounds with Words: Dominic Hoey & Tyler Pennock
September 23 at 8:30pm
Her Body in Words: Farzana Doctor & Hollie McNish
September 22 at 5:00pm
Histories of Resistance: Marie-Célie Agnant & Kim Leine
September 25 at 2:00pm
History Shaped Lives: Marsha Lederman & Pieter Waterdrinker
September 30 at 2:00pm
Humber School for Writers 30th Anniversary Celebration: Black Box Session and Party
September 28 at 7:30pm
Language of Loss: Naja Marie Aidt & Michael Pedersen
September 24 at 4:00pm
Legacy, Lore & Love: David A. Robertson & Jasmine Sealy
September 25 at 5:30pm
Lessons: Ian McEwan with Eleanor Wachtel
September 26 at 7:30pm
Making HERstory: Manahil Bandukwala & Karolina Ramqvist
October 01 at 6:30pm
Patrick Lane’s The Quiet in Me: Lorna Crozier
September 24 at 4:00pm
Poetic Journeys: Shani Mootoo & Pamela Mordecai
September 25 at 1:00pm
Prisoners of the Castle: Ben Macintyre
October 02 at 7:00pm
Reframing the Rom-Com: Lily Chu & Sonya Singh
October 02 at 7:30pm
Resistance in Dystopia: Gabe Calderón & J.M. Miro
September 24 at 11:30am
Revenge of the Librarians: Tom Gauld
September 25 at 3:30pm
Run Towards the Danger: Sarah Polley
September 30 at 6:00pm
Sensational Satire: Zarqa Nawaz & Miguel Syjuco
September 25 at 6:30pm
Sick Business: Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz with Joshua Knelman
October 01 at 3:30pm
Son of Elsewhere: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
September 25 at 1:30pm
Stories & Soundtracks: Michael Barclay & Rollie Pemberton
September 24 at 4:30pm
Stories I Might Regret Telling You: Martha Wainwright
October 02 at 4:30pm
Surviving the Times: Colin Barrett & A.L. Kennedy
September 26 at 8:30pm
Suspect: Scott Turow, with Linwood Barclay
September 29 at 6:30pm
The Art of the Memoir: Cody Caetano & Isaac Fitzgerald
September 24 at 1:00pm
The Colours of Grief: Tanya Turton & Olivia Wenzel
September 22 at 8:30pm
The Different Sides of the Story: Elise Levine & Léonora Miano
September 24 at 8:00pm
The Future is Speculative: Kim Fu & Anna Moschovakis
September 30 at 3:30pm
The Global Ocean: Rochelle Strauss & Natasha Donovan
October 02 at 3:00pm
The Immigrant Perspective: Jamal Saeed & Saeed Teebi
October 02 at 4:30pm
The Re-Read: A.F. Moritz on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
September 30 at 5:00pm
The Re-Read: Auður Jónsdóttir on Halldór Laxness
September 24 at 2:00pm
The Re-Read: Cathal Kelly on Timothy Findley’s Headhunter
September 27 at 6:00pm
The Re-Read: Cecil Foster on Mairuth Sarsfield’s No Crystal Stair
September 23 at 6:00pm
The Re-Read: Michael Crummey on Tomas Tranströmer
September 29 at 5:30pm
The Re-Read: Tanya Talaga on Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song
September 22 at 5:30pm
The Re-Read: Tomson Highway on Indigenous Mythology
September 28 at 8:00pm
The Right to Great Stories: Celebrating the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
September 30 at 5:00pm
Toronto Through the Looking Glass: Didier Leclair & Mariam Pirbhai
October 01 at 1:30pm
Travelling to the Stars: Dr. Dave Williams
October 01 at 2:30pm
When We Lost Our Heads: Heather O’Neill
September 27 at 7:00pm
World in Other Words: Basque Writers in Conversation
September 30 at 2:30pm
World in Other Words: Bengali Stories in Canada
October 01 at 12:00pm
World in Other Words: Celebrating Toronto’s Tamil Stories
October 01 at 4:30pm
World in Other Words: Emerging Authors in Nordic Literature
September 30 at 12:30pm
World in Other Words: Spanish Writers in Conversation
September 25 at 1:00pm
