Twenty years of BookNet Canada: A trivia event

Online

BookNet Canada turned 20 this year! To celebrate, we’re hosting a live webinar trivia event — our twist on a good, old-fashioned pub quiz. Join us to see how much you remember about general book trivia, Canadian publishing goings-on, and the evolution of book formats over the past two decades. Sign up as a solo

PubWest 2023: Collaboration

Seattle Renaissance Hotel 999 6th Avenue, Seattle, United States

PubWest is excited to bring you three days of networking and education at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel.

WBRA 2023 Winter Book Fair

The Parkside Hotel & Spa 810 Humboldt Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

An in-person book fair for BC booksellers.

The Rainbow, the Midwife & the Birds

Audreys Books 10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Also launching at the event will be the animated film "Flight Through the Rainbow" and the videogame "Grandfather Spider."

Blue Storm: The Rise and Fall of Jason Kenney

Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall, Central Library 800 3 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Join the authors of "Blue Storm: The Rise and Fall of Jason Kenney" for a lively discussion of key topics in Alberta politics and elections. In 2019, Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party unseated the NDP in a restoration of conservative power and quickly began to make waves. By 2022, Kenney had resigned as UCP leader,

BOOK LAUNCH – Ali Bryan’s Coq

cSPACE 1721 29 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Join Freehand Books and the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society for the book launch celebration of Ali Bryan's new novel, Coq. The night will be hosted by Marcello Di Cintio. There will be wine and Parisian hors d'oeuvres (probably croissants!). We'll be on the 4th floor of cSPACE, in the Treehouse. This is a free event.

The Ghost of You – Online Canadian Launch

Online

We are pleased to invite you to the Canadian launch of The Ghost of You by Margarita Saona, April 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Edmonton Time. Accompanying Margarita will also be Peter Midgley, Wendy McGrath, and Carrie Stanton. Looking forward to seeing you all virtually via Zoom. Registration required.

Literary Editions 2023 (Hybrid)

Henderson Hall, University of Alberta 1-17 Rutherford Library South 11204 89 Avenue Northwest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

University of Alberta Press is pleased to announce its annual event Literary Editions. Please join us online on April 26, 2023 from 4 to 5:30 pm MT. Everyone is welcome! This hybrid poetry reading event will feature readings from UAlberta Press’ newest collections: Monitoring Station by Sonja Ruth Greckol, Indie Rock by Joe Bishop, and there's more by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike.

Calgary Book Launch: body works with Dennis Cooley and Aritha van Herk

Shelf Life Books 1302 4 St SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Join renowned prairie poet dennis cooley in conversation with Alberta's own Aritha van Herk at Shelf Life Books to celebrate the release of body works. A tender, humorous, and irreverent meditation on the human body as it passes through time, body works is a celebration of the human body as a vessel of experience that

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