Events

Gratuit - Free, Avec – with : Marie Darsigny, Caro Fortin, Ashley Obscura, Manu Mineau, Lindsay Nixon, Natasha Young + invités ! + guests!

Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press fair and Art POP presents POP Reads in collaboration with Montreal Review of Books! Montreal is blessed with a thriving literary, small press and spoken-word scene. Come discover the dynamic, diverse new voices, poets and authors reading in English and French from recently published books, literary magazines and zines. You could also peruse recent books and zines available for sale at the event from participating publishers!

Venus Envy Halifax is so excited to be hosting the brilliant Lindsay Nixon to launch their debut book nîtisânak with readings from the incredi-babe Arielle Twist!

Join Lindsay and special guests Arielle Twist, Gwen Benaway, and Kai Cheng Thom for a night of readings in honour of the book's much-anticipated release.

Part of "Everyday Indigenous Knowledge(s) and Aesthetics"
Department of Native Studies Fall 2018 Colloquium Series
University of Manitoba

Join Lindsay Nixon for the Winnipeg launch of nîtisânak.

Co-presented by the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba for its Native Studies colloquium. This event is free and open to the public.

Lindsay Nixon launches their stunning new memoir, nîtisânak, at the fourth annual Naked Heart LGBTQ Festival of Words in Toronto, Ontario.

One of the world's most important Francophone literary industry events will this year be including books by English language publishers in Quebec, including Metonymy Press.

Join Lindsay Nixon and special guests for the Ottawa launch of their stunning new memoir, nîtisânak at Venus Envy.

This free, two-day celebration of Quebec English-language books is back! The Book Fair encourages book lovers of all ages and interests to browse, buy and get books signed, just in time for holiday gift-giving. With Quebec publishers and authors on hand, expect hundreds of new titles for sale, along with readings and other events happening throughout the Fair. You can’t buy more local than this.

Drop by the Metonymy Press table, sign up for a tarot reading by Oliver Pickle, and check out a reading by Lindsay Nixon, alongside 5 other local authors.

35 years after it was first released, Ruth West’s lesbian feminist cult classic Thea’s Tarot is enjoying its second printing, coordinated by Metonymy. What’s more, we're turning 4 years old. Come celebrate! Free brief tarot readings with every purchase of a deck + a Q&A with Oliver Pickle, author of She Is Sitting in the Night: Re-visioning Thea's Tarot.

Metonymy Press and Massy Books present a free afternoon reading event featuring Lambda Literary Award–winning poet Trish Salah (Wanting in Arabic, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1) and Vancouver-based author Hazel Jane Plante (Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), forthcoming from Metonymy Press).

Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival is Room magazine’s annual literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists which takes place every March on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples (Vancouver, British Columbia).

The 2019 Growing Room festival will take place from March 8 – 17. Registration is now open. More than 100 authors will be in attendance, including Metonymy Press's Lindsay Nixon.

“I’m writing an encyclopedia about a television show for a friend of mine who died," says the narrator of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Hazel Jane Plante's debut novel does just that, in layered, delightful, and dense prose. Out this October, the novel will launch in Vancouver, Burnaby, Victoria, Montreal, Toronto, and more. Hazel will also appear in September at Canzine Vancouver.

Addie Tsai, Houston-based author, launches her debut crossover YA novel, Dear Twin!

About the book:

Poppy is a biracial, Asian, queer, 18-year-old living in Houston, Texas. Shortly after high school graduation, her twin sister, Lola, goes missing. Poppy lives with her father, who has become incredibly possessive and anxious of Poppy since Lola has left, making her defer college for a year. She decides to write her twin a series of letters about her side of the story regarding some of the trauma they’ve both experienced, hoping it might bring Lola back, and that she’ll be able to leave for college with her love, a Korean butch girl named Juniper.

POETRY FOR THE SUMMER SOUL is an online poetry evening co-organized by Metonymy Press and l'Euguélionne featuring Montreal-based poets Shanice Nicole, Powetik and Kama La Mackerel. Together these three poets will share some pieces and talk about how poetry nurtures their souls.
 
Each of these remarkable and thoughtful poets will do a reading of their work, prompting discussions about the power of art and creativity and poetry to influence the world we live in for the better.

Join Kama La Mackerel, the poet behind the debut lyric poetry collection ZOM-FAM, for their virtual cross-continental book tour!

Join us as we welcome DEAR BLACK GIRLS, the new picture book by Shanice Nicole and Kezna Dalz, into the world.

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth… Read More »A Natural History of Transition – Spring 2021 events

Montreal and area writers, join THE UNRULY WRITERS CLUB.

***A space to create our work, grounded in disability justice***

What to expect: Hands-on exercises, mutual support, the opportunity for sharing and feedback in a supportive setting. And -- dedicated time to write!

After a long dark solitary winter and tentative spring, four writers emerge gloriously at the onset of summer: Kama La Mackerel, Helen Chau Bradley, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Callum Angus are brimming with pent-up words to soothe and destroy you — in any case you’ll want to experience their effects.

THE GOOD ARABS grounds the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker’s communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen.

Please join us for the hometown soft launch of Helen Chau Bradley's debut fiction: Personal Attention Roleplay

Coop Le Cagibi, 6596 St-Laurent
Free event
7-9 pm
October 21, 2021
with special guests David Bradford, River Halen Guri, and Sruti Islam

Metonymy authors are busy busy in these final weeks of 2021. Check out upcoming events, both in-person and online, featuring Helen Chau Bradley (Personal Attention Roleplay), Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (The Good Arabs), and Kama La Mackerel (ZOM-FAM):

Authors Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Helen Chau Bradley discuss their latest books THE GOOD ARABS and PERSONAL ATTENTION ROLEPLAY with jiaqing wilson-yang and Cason Sharpe. This event is co-presented with Another Story Bookshop.

Please join Helen Chau Bradley, in conversation with Jenny Heijun Wills and Anna Leventhal, to celebrate the launch of their debut collection, Personal Attention Roleplay. This event presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers in association with Metonymy Press and The Winnipeg Public Library.

Metonymy Press is proud to be publishing the Canadian edition of Shola von Reinhold's award-winning debut novel LOTE. Join the Glasgow-based author for a reading followed by a conversation with Sruti Islam.