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Winnipeg launch of nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon

McNally Robinson Booksellers 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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.

Free

Lindsay Nixon at Naked Heart Festival

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Free

Metonymy Press at the Salon du Livre Montréal

Place Bonaventure 800, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

$8

Ottawa launch of Lindsay Nixon’s nîtisânak

Venus Envy Ottawa 226 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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

Free

AELAQ Holiday Pop-up Fair

Concordia University McConnell Building 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

Free

Lux Magna Small Press Book Fair and Reading Series

Casa del Popolo 4873 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

Free

Thea’s Tarot returns!

La Petite Drawn & Quarterly 176 rue Bernard O., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.

Free

Vancouver reading event: Trish Salah & Hazel Jane Plante

Massy Books 229 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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).

Free

Lindsay Nixon at Growing Room Festival!

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.

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) fall 2019 tour

“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.