Please join us at Imperial Pub for an In Her Voice event! Coinciding with Congress in Toronto, we're pleased to be celebrating the release of Suzette Mayr's new book Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall She'll be joined by Barbara Seeber, co-author of The Slow Professor When: Monday, June 5 @ 6.30pm Where: Imperial Pub 54 Dundas Street East Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. Her dissertation on African-Canadian pioneer…

Please join us to kick-off our In Her Voice Festival. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich will be discussing her genre-breaking book The Fact of a Body. WHEN: Thursday, June 15th @ 7pm WHERE: Crow’s Theatre 345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) TICKETS: Available here Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment…

Please join us for our In Her Voice Festival! Durga Chew-Bose and Scaachi Koul will be in conversation. Fariha Róisín will be moderating the discussion. WHEN: Friday, June 16th @ 7pm WHERE: Crow's Theatre 345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) TICKETS: Available here In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philosophical, and occasionally brooding, thoughts. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose…

Please join us for an event to celebrate writing in the genre of Young Adult Fiction! We will be joined by S.K. Ali, Cherie Dimaline and Jane Ozkowski. WHEN: Saturday, June 17th @ 12pm WHERE: Crow's Theatre 345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) TICKETS: Available here Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen. There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the…

Please join us for our In Her Voice Festival! Patricia Lockwood will be discussing her hilarious and heartfelt memoir Priestdaddy. WHEN: Saturday, June 17th @ 2pm WHERE: Crow’s Theatre 345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) TICKETS: Available here Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met—a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972.” His daughter is…

Please join us for a very important look at our Country's history. Kiera L. Ladner and Myra Tait will be discussing their edited collection Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal WHEN: Saturday, June 17th @ 4pm WHERE: Crow's Theatre 345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) TICKETS: Available here Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how—even 150 years…

Please join us to celebrate the release of SJ Sindu‘s new book Marriage of a Thousand Lies. When: Thursday, June 22nd @ 6pm Where: Famous Last Words 392 Pacific Ave The Junction Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet…