HALIFAX
Monday November 5, 7pm, This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Book Tour, The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street
Join a quartet of some of the most acclaimed authors of the season as they travel the Maritimes. Get ready for an amazing night of war criminals, rock eaters, terrorists, and zombies. Featuring Corey Redekop (Husk) Ian Colford (The Crimes of Hector Tomas) Barry Webster (The Lava in My Bones) and
Chris Gudgeon (Song of Kosovo).
MONTREAL
Montreal-based musician and author Rae Spoon will be reading from their first novel, First Spring Grass Fire, at the Concordia Co-op Bookstore. This first book by Rae is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta.
TORONTO
Monday November 5, 7:30pm, Mansfield Press Toronto launch, Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street
Mansfield Press invites you to celebrate the launch of its fall 2012 list, with poetry by Jason Heroux and Jim Smith and novels by Paula Eisenstein and Sarah Dearing.
Featuring a three-round poetry slam (Come out to compete or watch) and limited open mic available. Featuring a special educator, writer and activist from Baltimore, Maryland Chris August.
EDMONTON
14 Edmonton creators present their interpretations of the theme of the sequential narrative of comics with more than 25 inspired pieces of art. The opening night features a wine and cheese meet and greet with the artists along with special presentations from Blair Brennan, the current Writer-in-Residence at Latitude 53, and Suzette Chan, writer for Sequential Tart Web Zine, fans and close friends of Gilbert. Part of the Gilbert Bouchard Memorial Art Show.