Join Genni Gunn for the Getting Your Novel Started - A Practical Approach workshop, part of the Thin Air 2021 Festival. In this workshop, Genni will guide you through how to generate plots, define your novel idea, explore characters, construct scenes, time management and more! For more information and to register for this free workshop go to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/thin-air-2021-writing-craft-genni-gunn-tickets-188400891137

Joining musicians and writers together for a magical night of words and music. Host Stephen Vogler brings his band West Coast Front back to the stage to perform with a host of writers, including Adrienne Drobnies, are beamed in via Zoom for a night of improvisation, innovation and rich storytelling embellished by sweet and soulful sounds. Guest authors include Cedar Bowers, Ivan Coyote, Adrienne Drobnies, Leanne Dunic, Ted Goodden, John Gould, Cornelia Hoogland, Sadeqa Johnson, Shaena Lambert, Annette Lapointe, Mary Lawson, Darrel J. McLeod and Zoe Whittall. Guest musicians are Geeta Das, Musical Director, also playing trumpet, saxophone and percussion; Rajan Das on upright bass; Dean Feser on percussion; and Rosalind Steel on piano and electric keys.

In-person tickets are $25 and can be purchased here: https://whistlerwritersfest.ticketleap.com/in-person-reading-event-3-celebrating-20-years-of-stories-tasti/details

Online tickets are $10 and can be purchased here: https://whistlerwritersfest.ticketleap.com/virtual-reading-event-3-celebrating-20-years-of-stories-tasting/

Do you have a passion for genealogy? Participants in this workshop will learn how to transform personal histories into stories guaranteed to inspire and delight a broad audience. Everyone welcome. https://www.vanessafarnsworth.com/content/event-registration#overlay-context=content/event-registration

Do you have a passion for genealogy? Participants in this workshop will learn how to transform personal histories into stories guaranteed to inspire and delight a broad audience. Everyone welcome. https://www.vanessafarnsworth.com/content/event-registration#overlay-context=content/event-registration

Do you have a passion for genealogy? Participants in this workshop will learn how to transform personal histories into stories guaranteed to inspire and delight a broad audience. Everyone welcome. https://www.vanessafarnsworth.com/content/event-registration#overlay-context=content/event-registration

Do you have a passion for genealogy? Participants in this workshop will learn how to transform personal histories into stories guaranteed to inspire and delight a broad audience. Everyone welcome. https://www.vanessafarnsworth.com/content/event-registration#overlay-context=content/event-registration

James Scoles will be reading from The Trailr as the featured poet at the October edition of the Speaking Crow open mic poetry series. For more information on how to attend go to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/speaking-crow-october-2021-virtual-edition-with-james-scoles-tickets-170143859865

Do you have a passion for genealogy? Participants in this workshop will learn how to transform personal histories into stories guaranteed to inspire and delight a broad audience. Everyone welcome. https://www.vanessafarnsworth.com/content/event-registration#overlay-context=content/event-registration

Genni Gunn is one of the featured authors in the 2021 Thin Air Festival. Watch her readings and browse other writers on the Thin Air Festival website.

Paul is Dead is the Winnipeg Free Press Book Club's pick for June. At the end of the month the book club will gather in a livestream book club meeting with special guest, author C.C. Benison. For more information on how to participate go to https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/book-club/

Join Raye Anderson for the virtual launch of her book, And Then Is Heard No More. She will be joined by host Ardith Boxall.

Lori Cayer will be reading from Searching for Signal as the featured poet at the June edition of the Speaking Crow open mic poetry series. For more information on how to attend go to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/speaking-crow-june-2021-virtual-edition-with-lori-cayer-tickets-154243531555

Four Italian Canadian novelists present their recently published work. They will read passages of their novels and talk about their books.

**UPDATE**

We are moving the Voices in Verse event to Zoom due to technical issues with Facebook Live. Please join Lori Cayer, James Scoles, and Caroline Wong with host Charlene Diehl on Zoom at 8:00 pm CDT / 6:00 pm PDT.

https://zoom.us/j/98791002671

Meeting ID: 987 9100 2671

For the 6th year in a row, the Winnipeg Free Press is publishing poetry by Manitoba writers for National Poetry Month in partnership with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Hosted by editors Ariel Gordon and Tamar Rubin, this event will feature readings on the theme of resilience by the 2021 Writes of Spring poets: Alero Tenumah, Alison Wong, Carolyn Joy Creed, Delshan Anqele, Harvey Jenkins, James Scoles, Libby Jeffrey, melanie brannagan frederiksen, Noah Cain, Özten Shebahkeget, Seream, Tazi Rodrigues.

Endre Farkas will be reading from his novel Home Game at the Kodolanyi University.

Join Endre Farkas, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Hélène Dorion, and Alain Cuerrier for the Cafe Quebec panel discussion at the Sierra Poetry Festival. Information on how to register at: https://www.sierrapoetryfestival.org/register

Endre Farkas will be reading from his novel Home Game at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University.

Endre Farkas will be reading from his novel Home Game for a combined event with Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic).

Endre Farkas will be reading from his novel Home Game at the University of Pecs.