05/28/23: Edmonton launch of Coq by Ali Bryan
Join us as we celebrate Ali Bryan’s new novel, Coq, in Edmonton! Take a trip to the City of Love. Ali Bryan’s Coq is full
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Live Recording Available – November 29, 2022: Celebrating W.O. Mitchell
Thanks to everyone who made this night special. We had a great turnout, and I think everyone was floored by Sharon Butala’s tribute and reading
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August 4, 2022: Bernice Friesen reading in Edworthy Park
Join Freehand Books and Bernice Friesen, author of Universal Disorder, and Deborah Willis, author of The Dark and Other Love Stories, for a pleasant afternoon
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August 11-14, 2022: Farzana Doctor at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
Catch Farzana Doctor at this year’s Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt, British Columbia. She’s got two slots: one on Friday, August
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Recording available – August 16, 2022: Reading with Kevin Holowack, Thomas Wharton, and Doreen Vanderstoop
Didn’t get a chance to make it out to this event? You’re in luck! Shelf Life Books livestreamed and recorded the whole thing. Watch it
September 9-11, 2022: Dawn Promislow at Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
Our very own Dawn Promislow is a featured writer at this year’s Eden Mills Writers’ Festival. The festival takes place September 9th to the 11th.
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September 12, 2022: Freehand Fall Launch w/ Mikka Jacobsen and Barbara Joan Scott
Join us on Monday, September 12th at the Southern Alberta Pioneers Memorial Building in Calgary, AB for the launch of Barbara Joan Scott’s debut novel,
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September 17, 2022: Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau at WOTS Lethbridge
Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau, author of The Lover, the Lake and Winter Child, will be appearing at this year’s Word on the Street Lethbridge festival! Find
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September 19, 2022: Doreen Vanderstoop and “The Group of Five Live”
Calgary’s Alexandra Writers’ Centre is hosting “The Group of Five Live,” a group of authors who all had books come out during the pandemic, and
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September 22, 2022: Farzana Doctor at the Toronto International Festival of Authors
At this year’s Toronto International Festival of Authors, Farzana Doctor will be sitting down with Britain’s Hollie McNish to discuss poetry around the theme, “Her
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September 29, 2022: Jan Zwicky at the Victoria Festival of Authors
Jan Zwicky, author of Wisdom & Metaphor, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, and the forthcoming Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies, will be reading at the Victoria Festival
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