Publishing News & Views

May 6, 2026

The Making of Lire Queer

Brooke Lee

By Brooke Lee Last month, local writer Brooke Lee sat down with Christopher DiRaddo–founder and host of the Violet Hour Book Club–to discuss his debut literary festival Lire Queer. When did the idea for Lire Queer first come to you? It began with an invitation from fiction writer Nairne Holtz, […]

March 10, 2026

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Spring Literary Events to Destroy your Winter Blues

Margot Berner

By Margot Berner I am not a spring-enjoyer. I love summer for the festivals, autumn for the When Harry Met Sally sweaters, and winter for the complaining about winter. Spring in Montreal is all about the revealing of dog poop in ice-melt gutter-rivers and slipping on secret ice hidden under […]

January 28, 2026

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One Year After Eyes Have Seen

Fred Anderson

One year later, I understand memory less as a repository than as a living process. It does not preserve experience so much as it revisits, revises, and renegotiates its meaning.

October 21, 2025

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Haunt Me, Montreal

Shakiya Williams

Horror, to me, captures something raw and truthful about the world we live in.

September 15, 2025

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Sweater Weather Reads

Anna Dunlop

A city with a great love and passion for the literary arts is worth celebrating.

September 10, 2025

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Applications are Open to Table at the 2025 Read Quebec Book Fair!

Applications are now open to table at the 10th edition of the Read Quebec Book Fair! This annual celebration of Quebec’s English-language literature returns on December 6 and 7, 2025 in the beautiful and historic Casa d’Italia. Book publishers and those dealing in magazines, journals and literary wares are welcome […]

August 11, 2025

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