Upcoming April author events

Anansi events

Alison Pick (Far to Go)

Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Holocaust Memorial Service
Engineering Lecture Theatre EN-2006
Memorial University
St. John’s, NFLD

 

Ian Hamilton (The Wild Beasts of Wuhan)

Thursday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.
Reading and participation in the announcement of the Arthur Ellis Award shortlist
Indigo Manulife Centre
55 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON

 

Peter Behrens (The O’Briens)

Friday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
Lorenzo Reading Series
Hazen Hall Lecture Theatre
UNB
Saint John, NB

Wednesday, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
TPL Author Reading
Deer Park Branch, Toronto Public Library
40 St. Clair Ave. E.
Toronto, ON

Thursday, May 10, 7:30
The Heliconian Literary Lecture Series
Toronto Heliconian Club
35 Hazelton Avenue
Toronto, ON

Iain Reid (One Bird’s Choice)

Saturday, April 21, 2:00 p.m.
Reading
Collected Works
1242 Wellingston Street West
Ottawa, ON

 

Peter Hobbs (In the Orchard, the Swallows)

Monday, April 23, 5:00 p.m.
Book launch
The Common Room
Massey College
4 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON
Please RSVP to reader@houseofanansi.com

Friday, April 27, 8:30 p.m.
Ottawa Writers’ Festival
Reading with Ami McKay and Vincent Lam, hosted by the National Post’s Mark Medley
Knox Presbyterian Church
120 Lisgar Street
Ottawa, ON

Anansi Poetry Bash

(click on the poster to the left for a larger image)

Featuring Erin Knight (Chaser), Dennis Lee (Testament), A.F. Moritz (The New Measures), and Erin Moure (The Unmemntioable)
Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m.
Tranzac
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto, ON
Please RSVP on Facebook or to reader@houseofanansi.com

Groundwood events

Cybele Young (A Few Blocks)

Sunday, April 22, 2:30 p.m.
Small Print Toronto Block Party
Theatre Direct, Christie Street Studio
Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street
Toronto, ON

Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel (Summer in the City)

Sunday, April 22, 10:00 a.m.
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore’s Books and Breakfast Series
Le Centre Sheraton Montreal
1201 Boul. Réné-Levesque West

Frye Festival Events:

Saturday April 28, 9:30 a.m.
KIDSFEST
Crafts, contests, word games, book swaps and reading by Marie-Louise Gay (10:00 a.m.)
Moncton Public Library and Blue Cross Centre
Atrium
644 Main Street
Moncton, NB
Free

Saturday April 28, 1:00 p.m.
STORY TIME with Marie-Louise Gay
Dieppe Public Library
333 Acadie Av Dieppe
Moncton, NB
Free

Author events this week and an important video

Anansi and Groundwood authors on the radio and across Canada this week:

Adam Gopnik (Winter)

Monday, March 26 to Friday, March 30
Rebroadcast of Winter, the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, on CBC Radio One’s Ideas
Weekdays at 9 p.m. (9:30 p.m. NT) and Mondays at 2 p.m. (2:30 p.m. NT)

 

Lynn Coady (The Antagonist)

Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Grit Lit: Friday Night Fiction
Featuring Alexi Zentner and Will Ferguson
Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King St. West
Hamilton, ON

Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel (Summer in the City)

Saturday, March 31, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Launch
Babar en Ville
1235, av Greene
Westmount, QC

A video message about children’s rights:

Please take a moment to watch the book trailer for I Have the Right to Be a Child, a gorgeously illustrated picture book that introduces young children to the concept of human rights, and more specifically to their rights as children, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This moving video was created by our talented Marketing Manager Fred Horler and stars his daughter Zoe.

(Email subscribers, please click on the heading at the top of the post to view the video.)

Spring poetry events: Erín Moure

As the proud publishers of 11 Erín Moure books, we are thrilled to present her newest title this spring: The Unmemntioable, a book-length poem that delves into the fraught history of war, loss, and emigration from Western Ukraine. Erín will be doing many events over the next few months, and we will continue to update this page as more events are finalized.

You can also follow Erín on Twitter and Facebook, and through her blog for The Unmemntioable.

Monday, February 20, 7:00 p.m.
Hot Texts Reading Series
With Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey
The Way Station
683 Washingston Avenue
Brookly, NY 11238

Tuesday, February 21, 12:30 p.m.
Alumni Reading Room
Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Thursday February 23, 7:00 p.m.
Reading with David Buuck and Brian Teare
Moonstone Arts Center
110 S 13th Street, 2nd floor (btwn Chestnut and Sansom)
Philadelphia, PA

NEW DATE NEW VENUE
Thursday, March 1, 6:30 p.m. (doors open 6:00 p.m., reading 7:00-8:00 p.m.)
Olive Reading Series
The Empress Ale House
9912 82 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB T6E 1Y9

Saturday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
Launch and discussion with Maurice Mierau, John Paskievich and Alison Calder
on home, displacement, identity, experience
Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre
184 Alexander Ave. East
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0L6

Sunday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.
Manitoba Writers Guild Master Class & Workshop
Burns Family Classroom
218 – 100 Arthur St.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3

Monday, March 5, 12:30 p.m.
University of Winnipeg
Room 3C01 (3rd Floor, Centennial Hall)

Monday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Manitoba Writers Guild In Dialogue
Winnipeg Free Press News Café
237 McDermot Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S4

Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Capilano University
Café for Contemporary Art
140 Esplanade East
North Vancouver, BC V7L 4X9

Wednesday, March 7, 5:00 p.m.
University of British Columbia Play Chthonics, with Robert Majzels
Piano Lounge, Graham House, Green College
UBC
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd.
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

Friday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
Okanagan College
The Bohemian Café
524 Bernard Ave.
Kelowna, BC V1Y 6P1

Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
groupe intervention video (en français)
4001 Berri #105
Montreal, QC H2L 4H2

Thursday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Drawn & Quarterly
211 Rue Bernard Ouest
Montreal, QC H2T 2K5

Friday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
Grey Borders Series, with Oana Avasilichioaei, Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts
as part of the In The Soil Festival
Niagara Artists Centre
354 Saint Paul St.
St. Catharines, ON L2R 3N2

Sunday, April 29, 6:00 p.m.
Avant-Garden, with Oana Avasilichioaei
Holy Oak Café
1241 Bloor St. West
Toronto, ON M6H 1N6

January author events

Happy New Year! We’re thrilled to have you here with us as we start another year of publishing great books. It will be hard to top our incredibly successful 2011 (cough cough, The Sisters Brothers, anyone?), but we vow to do our best! And with new books from Robert Hough, Carrie Snyder, Dennis Lee, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, Rawi Hage, and many more on the way, we have our sights set pretty high. Watch this space! We will be making our Spring 2012 catalogue available for your viewing pleasure very soon.

On to our January author events! We hope you can join us for:

Ian Hamilton (The Disciple of Las Vegas)

Thursday, January 5 12, 7:00 p.m. [please note the change of date for this event]
Crime Fiction Book Club Appearance
Words Worth Books
100 King Street South
Waterloo, ON

Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Reading with Brad Smith
Words Worth Books
100 King Street South
Waterloo, ON

Michael Lista (Bloom)

Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 p.m.
Pivot Readings at the Press Club with Jacob McArthur Mooney and Paul Vermeersch
850 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
PWYC

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Margaret Atwood (Payback)

Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m.
World Premiere of the Payback film at Sundance
Yarrow Hotel
Park City, Utah

Additional Screenings:
Sunday January 22, 12:00 p.m.
Broadway Cinema 6, SLC
Monday January 23, 3:30 p.m.
Redstone Cinema 8, Park City
Wednesday January 25, 6:00 p.m.
Temple Theatre, Park City
Friday January 27, 3:15 p.m.
Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Theatrical opening in Toronto the weekend of March 16-18 (details TBC)
Theatrical opening in New York City in April 2012 (details TBC)

Matt Rader (A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno)

Thursday, January 26, 7:00 p.m.
The Atwater Poetry Project
Reading with Russell Thornton
Atwater Library Auditorium
1200 Atwater Avenue
Westmount, QC