Programs
Discover the ways we play with words, celebrate ideas and create community.
Workshops for all, online and onsite.
Join us for a workshop, from learning to write poetry to sculpting paper art. We offer a variety of programs throughout the year.
Upstart & Crow’s Climate Series, launched in fall 2023, spotlights exceptional thinkers and solutions we need to implement now.
We invite readers to search a collection that includes a large range of titles from independent and small presses in Canada and the U.S., alongside international fiction.
Our new little shop in Gibsons, B.C.
Welcome to our sister shop, Upstart Upstairs, above the magnificent Persephone Brewing.
The Found in Translation series.
This series introduce readers to the most inventive, exciting books translated into English and available in Canada today.
Our Thistalalh Library partnership.
We’re proud to partner with the Thistalalh Library, a special community library in Bella Bella, in the heart of Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) territory in the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Upstart Writers Residency.
We offer our mezzanine to a Writer in Residence, providing work space for emerging talent. We also welcome authors interested in writing in the space for short stints.
Pull up a seat around our dining table in the middle of our studio and bookshop, and listen in on riveting conversations with some of the world’s most insightful authors.
Purchase a magical postbox full of bookish treats for any occasion.