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November 2025

Best Canadian Stories 2026: Launch

Join us for a wonderful evening to launch the 2026 Best Canadian Stories compilation, published by Biblioasis. Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, this compilation provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction published over the last year. The 15 chosen stories draw together an expressive range of characters and narratives, from contributors both familiar ...read more

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In Translation

Tamil Terrains: Poems, Translations, Reflections with Trace Press

What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war and forced or voluntary migrations? Join us online on Sunday Nov 16 at 9:30am PST to celebrate Trance Press’ newest release in their translating series, Tamil Terrains. We’ll be joined by ...read more

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‘The Broken Map Home’: Book Launch

Join us on Saturday, November 15, at 6:30 pm for a captivating evening with writer Keiko Honda as we celebrate her new book, The Broken Map Home. Through her skilled translation, this poignant work brings to life her late grandfather Konosuke Masuda's harrowing WWII memoir. Bridging past and present, the book highlights the enduring strength of the ...read more

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Climate Solutions

Writer’s Block: An Evening of Climate Writing

Struggling to commit to your journal? Hitting a rough patch in your thesis? Feel like your op-ed is swirling the drain? As a great storyteller once said; “My world’s on fire - how about yours?” Join local environmental group the sword fern collective for an evening of focused writing and community connection. In these infamously unprecedented times, ...read more

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‘Starting from Here’: Book Launch

Join us in celebrating the launch of Paula Saunders’s new novel, Starting from Here, a coming-of-age tale about a young girl whose dreams of becoming a dancer are complicated by the need to break away from her Midwestern family. Paula will be in conversation with Karen Parrish. More than anything, René wants to be a dancer. Eve, ...read more

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‘women & roosters’: A Poetry Launch with Fenn Stewart

Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of Fenn Stewart’s new work of poetry, women and roosters, published by the incredible indie press, Book*hug. Stewart will be joined in reading by Laura Morales Padilla, and Afuwa will moderate a question and answer period. Taking its title from ancient physician Galen’s claim that “all creatures are sad ...read more

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October 2025

Mandylion Press: Delve into the Hair-Raising World of Victorian Science and the Occult

On the eve of Halloween, discover Mandylion Press: a daring new publishing house dedicated to unearthing lost literary gems written by women and weirdos in the (very) long nineteenth century. From the shelf of the theologian to that of the medical man, the nineteenth century was alive with speculation, experimentation, and eerie inquiry into the ...read more

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Climate Solutions

‘Red Pockets’: A Morning with Alice Mah

What do we owe to past and future generations? What do we owe to the places that we inhabit? Join us online on Sunday, October 26 at 9:30am to celebrate Alice Mah’s new book, Red Pockets, shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Red Pockets is a moving meditation on ancestry, belonging, and the ...read more

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Community & Skills

New Leaf Editions: A Special Letterpress Exhibition

Join us on Friday, October 24 at 6:30pm for a reception to unveil a special exhibition in celebration of the extraordinary legacy of New Leaf Editions — one of Vancouver’s most singular printmaking studios. For nearly four decades, New Leaf Editions has been pushing the boundaries of printmaking. Collaborating with artists such as Bill Reid, ...read more

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Hidden Flowers: A Book Launch with Keiko Honda

Join us for a special evening celebrating the new memoir Hidden Flowers by the remarkable Keiko Honda, scientist and a Vancouver champion of the arts. This illuminating new work explores the transformative power of artistic self-expression, exemplified by the Japanese concept of “hidden flowers.” Grappling with emptiness, loneliness, and the challenges of aging following her daughter’s departure ...read more

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In Translation

Translation Spotlight: Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan with Anna Ling Kaye

Fragrant Harbour. The Garden City. Beautiful Island. Though small in geographic footprint, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan have outsized cultural identities which have carried each from fishing backwater to bustling colony to Asian Tiger status and beyond. Please join us on Monday, October 20th at 7pm for a spotlight on the exciting, fertile terrain of modern literature from these ...read more

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‘Bloom’: A Book Launch Celebrating Letters on Girlhood

Join us for the Vancouver launch of Bloom: Letters on Girlhood, a timely new memoir exploring how societal expectations shape identity, and how we can continue, at any age, to release the past. This is a free event, but please RSVP for your spot here, as capacity is limited. Books will be on hand for sale and ...read more