Upcoming events
Canada Reads Asian
Join us for Canada Reads Asian: Diaspora Voices Reshaping Canadian Literature at Queen Books on Friday, March 13 (6–9 p.m.) for an evening of conversation, community, and (optional but highly encouraged) karaoke.
🕕 6–7 p.m. — Panel with five Asian Canada Reads longlisters
🎤 7–9 p.m. — Mixer + karaoke
📍 Queen Books (914 Queen St E, Toronto)
Featuring:
Rachel Phan, author of Restaurant Kid
Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez, author of Celestina’s House
Leanne Toshiko Simpson, author of Never Been Better
Liann Zhang, author of Julie Chan is Dead
Jinwoo Park, author of Oxford Soju Club
We’ll be talking about diaspora storytelling, writing between cultures, and the many ways Asian voices are reshaping Canadian literature.
Free to attend. Refreshments served. All are welcome.
So come for literature, stay for the karaoke, leave with new friends!
Special thanks to the ACWW for working with us to throw this amazing community event.
Queen Books’ Book Club
Queen Books, 914 Queen St E, Toronto, ON
Restaurant Kid is Queen Books' Book Club Pick for October!
More information to come.
Toronto: Word on the Street
Join The Word On The Street's 36th Annual Festival at David Pecaut Square!
Panel: “Setting the Table: On Food & Friendship”
The event is free to attend! Save the date here
From the Margins to the Centre: Asians Writers Reclaim the Page
Perfect Books, 258A Elgin St., Ottawa, Ontario
Join us for a dynamic evening of literary conversation as LiterAsian Ottawa presents From Margins to the Centre: Asian Writes Speak Out—a panel featuring acclaimed Asian Canadian authors who are challenging the limits of diaspora storytelling and reshaping the national literary landscape.
This discussion will explore how and why writers are expanding, subverting, and reimagining what it means to write from the margins—and how their stories are making space at the centre of Canadian literature.
Speakers:
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, REUNITING WITH STRANGERS
Wayne Ng, JOHNNY DELIVERS – Moderator