*NEW* Upcoming Lit Events
SEPTEMBER 2007
2nd Annual Up South International Book Festival Brings the Renaissance
Featuring Common, Sonia Sanchez, Martha Southgate, Simon Schmama, Faith Ringgold, Amiri Baraka, Jason Moran, and more …
Wednesday, September 19 - Sunday, September 23, 2007
Harlem Stage on 135th street, New York
For more information visit www.myspace.com/upsouthbookfestival.
AUGUST 2007
Free readings by Patrick Califia, James St. James, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Rowe and many others.
Writing Outside the Margins
Sunday, August 26, 11 AM-7 PM
Church Street (between Alexander and Gloucester), Toronto
Closing party for Writing Outside the Margins, Sunday August 26th, 9 PM
The Gladstone Hotel North Ballroom
1214 Queen St. W.
Tickets: $10 in advance
For more information, visit http://xtra.ca/writinginthemargin.
APRIL 2007
George Murray (aka Bookninja), Ken Babstock and Simon Armitage
Nicholas Hoare Westmount
Saturday, April 14, 3 pm - 5 pm
1366 Greene Avenue, Montreal (note new location)
Tickets: $5, includes 1 drink
George Murray, “Building a Better Blog”
Ottawa International Writers Festival
Sunday, April 15, 6pm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
George Murray, George Bowering and Rob McLennan, “Poetry Cabaret #1”
Ottawa International Writers Festival
Sunday, April 15, 8pm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
George Murray, Blaise Moritz and Roseanne Carrara
Tranzac Club
Thursday, April 19, 7pm (note new time)
292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto (behind Future Bakery on Bloor)
George Murray, Rick Crilly, Moez Surani
IV Lounge Reading Series
IV Lounge
Friday, April 20, 8pm
326 Dundas St West, Toronto (across from AGO)
For more dates on this tour click here.
Panel Discussion with Afua Cooper, Lawrence Hill and others.
International Conference on Sex, Power and Slavery
April 19th-21st, McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
More details are on the way, but in the meantime, click here to visit the conference website.
9th Annual Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
April 25-29th, Montreal, Quebec
Click here to see the full programme.
Click here to see a full list of participants.
