Book*hug Press invites you to celebrate the launch of our Fall 2018 Season! We can't wait to introduce you to our latest releases. Please join us! When: Thursday, November 1, 2018 Where: The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West, Toronto). Time: Doors open at 7pm, readings get underway around 7:50 All are welcome. Free! Books will […]

Book*hug and Librairie Drawn and Quarterly invite you to the Montreal launch of We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie. With special guests Kim Trainor, author of Ledi, as well as Tess Liem and Paige Cooper. All are welcome.

Book*hug, together with McNally Robinson, invite you to the Winnipeg launch of Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway. Also launching new books of  poetry will be Katherena Vermette, author of river woman (House of Anansi Press), and Randy Lundy, author of Blackbird Song (University of Regina Press). Hosted by Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills. McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park,  in […]

Book*hug, together with Massy Books, invites you to the Vancouver launch of We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie.  With special guests Cecily Nicholson and Selina Boan. Hosted by Leah Horlick. All are welcome. Massy Books' downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/ Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries. […]

The Naked Heart Festival presents "Spectrums of Sanity - Mental Health and The Writer" featuring Hana Shafi, author of It Begins With The Body. Also with Greg Wong, Peter Knegt, and Star Spider. Revisiting one of the most significant panels of the first Naked Heart Festival in 2015, writers openly share their struggles and strategies when […]

Laser Hexagram presents LASER 6 : Ecologies X Voice X Body X Atmosphere, with Chantal Neveu, author of Coit and A Spectacular Influence. A fleeting encounter between poetry and dance in an atmospheric scenography entitled Atmospheres conceived by the Topological Media Lab (TML) and presented in their research-creation laboratory at Concordia University. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY 1515 […]

Please join us for the Vancouver launch of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, a new collection of essays, poems, and conversations on the contemporary state of Canadian literature from Book*hug. Hosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Jen Sookfong Lee of Can't Lit, and featuring readings by six of the collection's 24 contributors: kim golberg, Sonnet l'Abbé, […]

Honolulu launch of Smells Like Stars by D. Nandi Odhiambo. Presented by Words @manoa, Creative Writing at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. In KUY 410. Free and open to the public.

Please join us for the Montreal launch of Gwen Benaway's Holy Wild and Hana Shafi's It Begins With the Body, with guest readers Lindsday Nixon, Marcela Huerta, and Eli Tareq Lynch. La Petite Drawn and Quarterly Accessibility information: - Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at […]

LitLive Reading Series presents Mark Truscott (Branches) and Aaron Giovannone (The Nonnets). Also with Nairne Holtz, Claire Humphrey, Jessica Webb and Nicola Winstanley.