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Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair

Atwater Library 1200 Atwater, Montreal, QC, Canada

It's the second edition of the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair!

Presented by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec, the Atwater Library and Computer Centre, and the Quebec Writers' Federation, this book fair brings together dozens of English-Quebec publishers and writers for a holiday bookstravaganza. Meet local authors, hear them read from their work, browse hundreds of books, buy a few and get them signed--just in time for holiday gift-giving.

Montreal launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

La Maisonnette des Parents 6651 Bldv St Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada

Join us in launching Kai Cheng Thom's first novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir. The author will read from her new book and sign copies which will be available for sale.

Cagibi craft fair

Le Cagibi 6596 Blvd. St Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

local vendors, espace radicale.
*With a performance by the FOREVER CHORUS AT 8pm Sunday*

HOURS:
10.30am-9.30pm dimanche/Sunday
4pm-9.30pm lundi/Monday

Free

Ottawa book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

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

Kick off 2017 in Ottawa with Kai Cheng Thom's launch of her first novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir.

Free

Kingston book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

AKA Autonomous Social Centre 75 Queen Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Books will be available for purchase at the event. All are welcome! This venue has an accessible entrance and accessible, single stall washroom. Please do not wear scented products at AKA. For more info contact germinations (at) riseup (dot) net

Free

Halifax launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Venus Envy Halifax 1589 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Books will be available for purchase at this free event. All are welcome! This venue has an accessible entrance.

Free

Vancouver launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Spartacus Books 3378 Findlay Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Author Kai Cheng Thom returns to her hometown to launch her Lambda Literary Award–nominated debut novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir.

Free

Kai Cheng Thom at the Blue Metropolis Festival

Stock Bar 1171 Ste Catherine East, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Metonymy author Kai Cheng Thom will make two appearances at Montreal's 2017 Blue Metropolis Festival. Join her on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29.

Kai Cheng Thom at the Festival of Literary Diversity

Peel Art Gallery, Museum + Archives 9 Wellington St. E, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

They fight injustice, obliterate boundaries, and/or defy expectations – bringing real and imagined worlds to life. Meet badass female characters and the writers who created them. Join Kai Cheng Thom, M-E Girard and Sarah Raughley in conversation with Sheridan College Professor and Bluegate Reading Series coordinator Shoilee Khan in a power-packed panel all about women warriors in literature.

$10

jia qing wilson-yang at the Wakefield Writers Festival des écrivains La Pêche

Kaffé 1870 715 Riverside, Wakefield, Quebec, Canada

Wakefield's quirky and talented Sheena Beena Turcotte hosts the festival’s most audacious sCrawl to date. You are invited to partake of the rhythmic word images and musical landscapes of two of Canada’s best spoken word artists—Queen Ka and Ian Keteku—and the fresh insights of authors Jasmine Aziz and jia qing wilson-yang on sex and gender identity.