Some of Canada’s most relevant and exciting authors head to Hamilton next week for the annual Grit Lit Festival!Check out the likes of Tanya Talaga (Seven Fallen Feathers), Casey Plett (Little Fish), Kerri Sakamoto (One Hundred Million Hearts), Sachiko Murakami (The Invisibility Exhibit), and so so many more.I’ll be with Read more…
Here I am, all Dolled up with the talented and precocious Professor Keith Cole at FADO’s Valley of the Dolls Commencement Ceremony. Photo Credit: Henry Chan An excerpt from my Keynote Address: “My Kindest advice to the Graduates:Self medicate. Like the precious white women in this book. Pop your pills Read more…
Join the Queen of the Lady Monsters, Sandra Kasturi, at ChiSeries, a monthly reading event featuring Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror. I’ll be reading alongside James Alan Gardner, Stephen Michell and Gary Thomas Morse, with original songs by Kari Maaren! Hosted by the Chiaroscuro Reading Series at ROUND Venue, 152 Read more…
Tarry This Night – included on CBC’s top 20 Fall Fiction Reads – is hot off the press, so order your copy from a favourite independent bookstore now! Or visit the author at various readings to get your own signed copy ….. Tuesday Sept 19, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Read more…
Today is the day! Yes, we are calling on YOU to skip on down to a local, independent bookstore and ….buy a book. Trade your low-fat lattes for a few days and instead feast your mind and spirit with a scintillating new read. I will be hanging with the heroes Read more…
Bring your fine self down to Round Venue in Kensington Market for a night of thrilling sci-fi, horror and speculative literature with the likes of Kristyn Dunnion, J. M. Frey, and Pat Flewwelling. Mistress of Ceremonies, Sandra Kasturi, will keep us all in line and Kari Maaren is cranking the tunes. Read more…
I am in love with the Vermont Studio Center, a chill arts residency campus situated in Johnson, Vermont. Painters, poets, sculptors, mixed media, prose .. so much excellent work is happening here and I’m delighted to be tucked into the middle of it all. To me it encourages the perfect Read more…
This weekend Glad Day Books in Toronto is hosting over one hundred queer authors in four venues. Writers will be presenting workshops, giving readings and panel discussions. and let’s not forget there will be PARTIES. Visit the homo-page at www.nakedheart.ca for updated schedules and the low-down on what’s happening. Join Read more…
Quit with the half measures and WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT with me on Saturday October 17 at 7 pm, part of the Naked Heart literary festival happening in Toronto. Bring your sharp pencil and mind, we will be writing our brains out.https://www.facebook.com/events/1629746073953138/ Check out the festival happenings at www.nakedheart.ca Read more…
Names of the finalists from the 6th annual Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest have been released and their work will be published in an anthology by Bold Strokes Books. The book will be launched at the festival in New Orleans, March 27 – 29. In its 12th year, the Read more…