Poets and writers with diverse backgrounds in science and art, explore the impact of science in the interconnected world. They look at the response to environmental threats such as global warming and loss of biodiversity, and how this influences creative lives and work.

Hosted by: Adrienne Drobnies

Featured Authors: Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics (Mountain Press); Renée Saklikar, children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections (blewointment); Jan Conn, Tomorrow’s Bright White Light (Tightrope Books); Lynne Quarmby, Watermelon Snow: Science, Art, and a Lone Polar Bear (McGill-Queen's University Press, upcoming).

Presented by: Read Local BC

Each year, Translink displays excerpts of poetry from various local poets inside city busses. Join us for the launch of Poetry in Transit! Readings from eight of the poets featured in Poetry in Transit 2020/21.

Hosted by: Evelyn Lau

Featured Authors: Adrienne Drobnies, Salt and Ashes (Signature Editions); Cornelia Hoogland, Trailer Park Elegy (Harbour Publishing); Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Correspondent (Icehouse Poetry); Fiona Tinwei Lam, Odes & Laments: Poems (Caitlin Press); Francine Cunningham, On/Me (Caitlin Press); Kyla Jamieson, Body Count (Nightwood Editions); Ruth Daniell, The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press); Susan Buis, Gatecrasher (Invisible Publishing)

Join Tamar Rubin for the virtual launch of her book, Tablet Fragments. She will be joined by special guests Angeline Schellenberg and Lori Cayer.

The Frye Festival is proud to partner with Festival Acadie Rock to present Prelude and Frye Jam, a multilingual literary event. This literary show brings together two signature events that we were unable to present as part of our virtual programming in April 2020.

The first part of the show will consist of Prelude.

This public reading features six new voices from New Brunswick.

After Prelude, Frye Jam will follow!

With its multidisciplinary format, Frye Jam features eight New Brunswick poets sharing their works on stage with the rhythmic sounds of Les Païens (les Païens are reuniting for this special occasion) and images by Carole Deveau as a backdrop.

Prelude and Frye Jam will be hosted by Kayla Geitzler and Jean-Philippe Raîche, also the City of Moncton’s Poets Laureate, who will close off the show with a reading of their closing poem, their second creation for the 2019-2020 edition of the Frye Festival.

Join us August 12th, 7 pm for our inaugural live-streamed Manitoba Book Jam: A Celebration of New MB Literature. This event is made possible by the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council.

Invited writers are each given five minutes to read from a new work that has in some way been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic shut down, with our musical guest providing “half-time” entertainment. Prepare a snack, pour a favourite bevvie and join us for a lively hour of entertainment.

Entrance is free (through preregistration) but please consider purchasing our guest authors' books through the links provided.

Three authors talk about how and why they’ve written about very personal medical issues — Marion Agnew on Alzheimer’s disease, Amy Boyes on premature birth, and Vanessa Farnsworth on Lyme disease.

Join us in conversation with three novelists who have taken their families' stories and turned them into page-turning fiction. From Catherine Hunter's Ireland, New York and Holland, to Endre Farkas's Hungary and no-man's land, to Stella Leventoyannis Harvey's Turkey, Greece and Egypt, the unfolding of world events sent these authors' families on journeys that have shaped who they are today.

Elaine Woo will be doing a virtual reading from the Danish poet, Inger Christensen's, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem as part of the Dead Poets Reading Series.

Join us to celebrate the launch of two terrific books: Joel Robert Ferguson’s first poetry collection, The Lost Cafeteria, and Alexis Kienlen’s debut novel, Mad Cow.

Go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yNKWF6hiT52zYOidn_E76A to register

Genni Gunn, Linda Kenyon, and Denise Roig talk about how their travels influence their writing. Join the conversation!

Elaine Woo will be reading from her poetry collection, Put Your Hand in Mine as part of the Spoken INK reading series.

Join us as Endre Farkas reads and discusses his first novel Never, Again.

Join Joel Robert Ferguson for the virtual launch of his book, The Lost Cafeteria. He will be joined by special guests Cam Scott and Madelaine Caritas Longman.

Elaine Woo will be reading from her poetry collection, Put Your Hand in Mine, as part of the second virtual gathering of Surrey Muse

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the launch of Joel Robert Ferguson's first poetry collection, The Lost Cafeteria, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the launch of Joel Robert Ferguson's first poetry collection, The Lost Cafeteria, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the launch of Tamar Rubin's first poetry collection, Tablet Fragments, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the signing of Louise Carson's latest novel, The Cat Between, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Harvey and Hoogland, novelist and poet, are memoirists in the sense that their front-line reports are from deeply informed and passionate points of view. Two daughters of immigrants take long hard looks at what happens when families shift and relocate after displacement.

Endre Farkas's novel Home Game has been short-listed for the Expozine English Literary Prize. This year, in partnership with the Festival Dans ta tête, the Expozine Awards Gala will recognize the best publications presented at last November’s Expozine small press fair in Montreal. The winners will be announced at the event, and some of the 36 short-listed publications will be available!