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Montreal Review of Books - Spring 2021 Issue Launch
2021-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto)
Montreal Review of Books’ Spring 2021 issue launches on Thursday, March 18. At 7pm, join us for a virtual launch event featuring readings by Tawhida Tanya Evanson (whose novel Book of Wings is out from Esplanade Books), poet stephanie roberts (whose collection rushes from the river disappointment is out from McGill-Queens University Press) and noted literary luminary Linda Leith (whose memoir The Girl From Dream City comes out in April from University of Regina Press). This event is free and open to all. Register on Crowdcast to attend.

Storytime - Heure du conte: Little Girl Gazelle/L’enfant gazelle
2020-11-29 10:00 - 10:30
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Story hour comes to your house — c’est l’heure du conte chez vous! Sit your young ones down to hear the story of Little Girl Gazelle, who learned to run before she could walk, as told by author Stéphane Martelly and translator Katia Grubisic. For kids aged 4-8, in French and English. This event will be transcribed live. Brief instructions on how to access the live transcript will be provided at the event.
Sponsored by Livres Babar Books.
Writer, painter and scholar, Stéphane Martelly was born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Montreal. Through a profoundly transdisciplinary approach, she confronts theory, critical reflection and art in her work. She is a professor of creative writing and Research-Creation at Université de Sherbrooke. She is writing a series of fables to think and imagine. Her latest book is L’enfant-gazelle (Remue-Ménage, 2018), Little Girl Gazelle, translation by Katia Grubisic (LLP, 2020).
Katia Grubisic writes poems, made-up stories, and a bunch of boring stuff for grownups. She also translates books, like L’enfant gazelle, from French to English. // Katia Grubisic écrit des poèmes, des histoires qu’elle invente dans sa tête, et plein de choses plates pour les grandes personnes, et elle traduit aussi des livres, comme L’enfant gazelle, du français vers l’anglais.

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The Favorite Game: English-Quebec Literary Trivia
2020-11-28 20:00 - 21:00
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How book-savvy are you? Test your knowledge of all things Quebec lit in this virtual pub quiz (you’ll have to BYOB). Pit your wit against the crackerjack mind of quizmaster and poet Larissa Andrusyshyn, win prizes!
How to participate:

Draft a team of up to 3 people and register for the event (you can also play solo or with one other person). You’ll receive a link to join the Zoom event on Saturday Nov. 28th.
Choose a team name.
Be ready with a pen and paper, and remember NO googling! You can have smart friends not smart phones! We will work with the honour system, honorable as we are.
Make sure you don’t post answers in the event’s Zoom chat. You’ll need to organize a group chat on the platform of your choice (i.e. text, Messenger, Whatapp, Google Hangouts, or just pick up the phone!) for the event so you can communicate with your team, if you don’t live in the same place.
Each team will elect a captain who records ‘final answers’ for each round on paper.
The quiz will be divided into several rounds with breaks between for teams to discuss.
Answers will be given after each round and team captains will report scores to the quizmaster.
Top scores will win prizes from our generous donors: Pow Pow Press, Véhicule Press, Metonymy Press, and Drawn & Quarterly.
Got it? Got it. See you there!

About your host:
Larissa Andrusyshyn is a writer, teacher and local quizmaster. Her trivia nights have drawn crowds at many pubs and fundraising events in Montreal and she is the longstanding host of the weekly pub quiz at Ye Olde Orchard Pub in NDG where over the years they’ve collected upwards of $10, 000 in support of the NDG Food Depot. She is also an avid quiz participant and hopes one day to make an appearance on Jeopardy! where she can carry on the spirit of her inspiration Alex Trebek.

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Meet the Presses: Publishing in 2020
2020-11-28 14:00 - 15:00
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How has the pandemic affected an already-precarious industry? What are the new challenges, and how are publishers meeting them? What strengths can they bring, and what’s the way forward? More generally, how do publishers decide what to publish? What can authors do to get their books noticed? Get the answers to these questions and more in this panel, featuring representatives from new and established presses. Panel discussion followed by audience Q&A.
With Oliver Fugler (Metonymy Press), Simon Dardick (Véhicule Press), Hazel Millar (Book*hug), and Nurjehan Aziz (Mawenzi House). Moderated by Jason Camlot.
This event will be transcribed live. Brief instructions on how to access the live transcript will be provided at the event.
Jason Camlot’s most recent works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (co-edited with Katherine McLeod, McGill-Queens, 2019). He directs the SpokenWeb research network, and is Professor of English at Concordia University.
Hazel Millar is the Co-Publisher at Book*hug Press, an independent literary press based in Toronto. She is the past Chair of the Board of the Literary Press Group of Canada and sits on several other publishing advisory boards and committees She lives in Toronto with her husband, Jay MillAr, aka, the other half of Book*hug Press, their two sons, and a cool calico cat named Tess.
Oliver Fugler is co-publisher at Metonymy Press, based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Metonymy publishes queer and feminist fiction and non-fiction by emerging and underrepresented writers, and our aim is to keep gay book lovers satisfied.
Simon Dardick is the co-publisher of Véhicule Press.
Nurjehan Aziz came to Canada in 1980, and in 1981 co-founded a literary magazine, The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing (1981-2001). She is the publisher and a director of Mawenzi House Publishers, publishing mainly writers with backgrounds in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Near East. She has edited a number of anthologies, more recently Confluences 1 and Confluences 2 (Essays on the New Canadian Literature).

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Black Writers Out Loud: Kaie Kellough in Conversation with Canisia Lubrin
2020-11-27 19:00 - 20:00
Black Writers Out Loud is a series of Quebec Writers’ Federation events celebrating Black literary arts in Quebec. This fourth event in the series is co-produced with the AELAQ, and features Kaie Kellough in conversation with Canisia Lubrin. These two award-winning authors from the worlds of poetry and prose come together to speak on their craft and all matters human.

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Montreal Review of Books Fall Issue Launch
2020-11-26 19:00 - 20:00
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Help us celebrate the launch of the fall issue of the Montreal Review of Books! With readings by featured authors Carmine Starnino, Kama La Mackerel, and Eva Crocker.
This event will be transcribed live. Brief instructions on how to access the live transcript will be provided at the event.
Eva Crocker is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel All I Ask, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her short story collection, Barrelling Forward, won the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Writer Award, was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers and the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, and was a National Post Best Book.
Kama La Mackerel is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice, love, healing, decoloniality, hybridity, cosmopolitanism and self- and collective-empowerment. ZOM-FAM, their debut poetry collection, is published by Metonymy Press.
Carmine Starnino has published five collections of poetry, including This Way Out, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Dirty Words:Selected Poems 1997-2016. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism, a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. He has received numerous awards, including the CAA Prize for Poetry, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the F.G. Bressani Prize, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry.

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Rapid Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing
2020-11-25 19:00 - 20:00
Follow this link to watch a recording of the event from Wednesday Nov. 25th!
Join us as we kick off the Read Quebec: Holiday Book Fest with an online version of this much-loved, fast-paced literary variety show. Fifteen writers from a range of genres will keep things hopping by reading from their new work—for only two minutes each! After each writer reads, they will contribute to a collaborative text that will be read aloud at the end of the show—with élan!—by host Nisha Coleman.
With: Breezy, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, April Ford, Nathan Caro Frechette, Dani Jansen, Andreas Kessaris, Richard King, Justin Ling, Rachel McCrum, Saleema Nawaz, Hazel Jane Plante, stephanie roberts, Greg Santos, Lauren Turner.
Sponsored by Penguin Random House Canada.
This event will be transcribed live. Brief instructions on how to access the live transcript will be provided at the event.
Nisha Coleman is a Montreal-based writer, storyteller, translator and musician. She is the author of the memoir Busker: Stories from the Streets of Paris.
Breezy is a queer Métis and settler writer, artist and art educator. Breezy holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education focused on trauma-informed teaching practices. She has worked with creative violence prevention, restorative justice and arts-based enrichment programming in schools. She currently works as a pedagogical consultant, helping others connect, heal, find joy and grow through making.
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet living in Tio’tia:ke, whose work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2018, GUTS, carte blanche, the Shade Journal, New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Their book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press September 2020, and their upcoming book, The Good Arabs, will be published by Metonymy Press in 2021.
April Ford is a Montréal queer writer. Her books include a debut novel and Winner of the 2020 International Book Awards for LGBTQ Fiction, Carousel (Inanna Publications), and Death Is a Side-Effect: Poems (Frog Hollow Press).
Nathan Caro Fréchette is a queer transgender sequential artist, publisher, and author living in Gatineau. He has published over a dozen short stories, both graphic and prose, as well as five novels, three graphic novels, and two works of nonfiction.
Dani Jansen is an English and drama teacher. Her debut novel, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, was released in September.
Andreas Kessaris is a graduate of Dawson College and Concordia University, where he earned a BA in communications and English. His writing has appeared on Suite101.com, in the literary journal The Write Place, and on the Montreal entertainment website Curtainsup.tv. The Butcher of Park Ex is his first book.
Richard King is a Montreal writer of mysteries, the author of five novels with a sixth, Banking on Life, scheduled for release in April 2021. He is a recovering bookseller and historian.
Justin Ling is an investigative freelance journalist. He has written for the Globe & Mail, Foreign Policy, VICE News and everyone in between, and hosted CBC’s The Village podcast.
Rachel McCrum is a poet and performer, originally from Northern Ireland. Her first collection, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (2018, Stewed Rhubarb Press), was published in a bilingual edition, Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales with Mémoire d’encrier in September 2020.
Saleema Nawaz is the author of two novels, most recently, Songs for the End of the World. Her first novel, Bone and Bread, won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Canada Reads competition.
Hazel Jane Plante is a writer, musician, cat photographer, and librarian. Her debut novel, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019), was recently given a Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction.
stephanie roberts is the Quebec-based, Panama-born, author of the poetry collection rushes from the river disappointment (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020) nominee for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Critically praised, her work has been widely featured in publications such as Poetry, Arc Poetry Magazine, Room, EVENT Magazine, CV2, The /tƐmz/ Review, Atlanta Review, and Verse Daily. Winner of Black Mountain Press’s The Sixty-Four: Best Poets 2018, she grew up stateside. Contact IG: @ringtales, www.oceansandfire.com
Greg Santos is the Editor in Chief of carte blanche magazine. His newest book is Ghost Face (DC Books, 2020).
Lauren Turner is a disabled poet and author of the full-length collection, The Only Card in a Deck of Knives (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) and the chapbook, We’re Not Going to Do Better Next Time (knife | fork | book, 2018). She won the 2018 Short Grain Contest and was a finalist for the 2017 3Macs carte blanche Prize.

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