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Van Slam Feat. Billie Nell

Online, Hybrid, In Person

Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It’s time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door, 1638 Venables St. or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs …

$10 – $15

Freedom to Write and to Read: Standing with Salman Rushdie

Harbourfront Centre Theatre 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Ontario

In this very special event we stand in solidarity with Salman Rushdie to celebrate his remarkable literary achievements and courage; we mark the fundamental importance of freedom of expression for writers everywhere in the world. Presented by PEN Canada, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto International Festival of Authors and Writers …

Free

The Nation Poetry Reading Series: Katie Farris, Ama Codjoe, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal & Ilya Kaminsky

Online

Please join us for our second virtual reading series of 2022 featuring poets from the magazine’s pages hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar. Audience questions will follow individual readings. Katie Farris’s work appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the …

Free

Tree Reading Series – Natalie Eilbert & Alycia Pirmohamed

Online

Join us for the first event of Tree Reading Series for 2022-2023 season featuring readers Natalie Eilbert and Alycia Pirmohamed. Natalie Eilbert is the author of Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. A 2021-22 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, her collection Overland …

Free

Kingston WritersFest

Our programming includes another diverse festival with over 30 unique events for readers of every age and taste. We design with maximum audience participation in mind; with time for questions and a chance to engage with authors as they sign books. We’ve includes the stories of women, the stories of Indigenous writers, …