Events

“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.

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.

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).