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Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and illustration. The top half of a black orb shape, sitting among several small green and blue overlapping partial orb shapes. Along the top of the black orb are houses and apartment buildings - and it has the words Telling Tales Festival Oct 4 & 5 on the front of it. Various plants, animals and insects frolic among the orbs, and a long vine extends from the mid-left, with a woman and man sitting on it. Dialogue bubbles, from the woman at the top left: Friends! From an insect at the top right: Families! From a mouse at the bottom right: Stories!

Telling Tales Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Two days only – Sat, Oct. 4 & Sun, Oct. 5, 2025: Telling Tales presents the 17th anniversary Telling Tales Festival at the Royal Botanical Gardens’ Hendrie Park. This annual outdoor literary festival features Canada’s leading children’s authors, illustrators & storytellers – plus book signings, activities, performers, local artisans & vendors, & more! All ages.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text superimposed over a photograph on a light blue background. Top: The FOLD presents An Evening with R.F. Kuang. In conversation with Jael Richardson. A small circular image of a Black woman wearing glasses, smiling at us. Main photo: A young Asian woman wearing a black top gazes at us. Bottom left: The deluxe hardcover edition of R.F. Kuang's novel Katabasis. Bottom right: Logos for The Rose Theatre, Another Story Bookshop & HarperCollins Canada. Text circles: $18 Admission only. $55 Admission + book.

The FOLD presents: An Evening with R.F. Kuang

PAST EVENT: One night only – Mon, Sep. 15, 2025: The Festival of Literary Diversity presents An Evening with R.F. Kuang, live at The Rose Theatre in Brampton. Join The FOLD’s Executive Director Jael Richardson, in conversation with the bestselling author who will share insights into her highly anticipated new novel Katabasis. Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry & journey to Hell to save their magician professor’s soul – perhaps at the cost of their own. For audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring black text, photograph and illustration against a white background, framed in black. Top left: Join us to celebrate Pitfall by Terry Kirk. Hosted by: Take Cover Books. Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025. Time: 7 pm. Venue: Take Cover Books, 59 Hunter Street East, Peterborough. RSVP button. Inside a circle, a medium close-up sepia-tone image of a 1920s flapper with a blonde bob, white dress and headband. To the right: Illustrated image of a book cover for Pitfall Terry Kirk set on a disk-shaped base, featuring decorative black framing against a pale grey background, and splotches of red above and below the author's name. Bottom left corner: Illustration of a popping champagne bottle.

Book launch: Pitfall

PAST EVENT: On Thu, Sep. 11, 2025: Take Cover Books hosts the launch of Terry Kirk’s new novel Pitfall, a gripping, fast-paced story set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1929 Market Crash – the first in a series of historical fiction thrillers.

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Little Deaths Salon

PAST EVENT: One night only – Thu, Jul. 17, 2025: Kaleigh Trace and Christa Couture present the third edition of the Little Deaths Salon, a quarterly literary & performance series that explores the awe inspired by humans’ most intimate experiences: sex and death. Presented at It's Ok* Studios. All are welcome. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs. Top: thefoldcanada.org Computer icon April 27-30. People icon May 1-4, Brampton. The Festival of Literary Diversity. April 27 - May 4, 2025. Celebrating a decade of change. Bottom: A geometric collage of images of people reading and participating in a literary festival.

The Festival of Literary Diversity 2025

PAST EVENT: From Sun, Apr. 27 – Sun, May 4, 2025: The Festival of Literary Diversity presents the 10th anniversary of their annual literary festival celebrating Canadian & international authors. The festival includes virtual & in-person panels, discussions, workshops & interactive events that allow guests from across Canada & around the world to participate. Events April 27-30 are virtual, while events May 1-4 are offered in person.

Past event: Greyed out image of the illustrated poster (in English & French) for Metropolis Bleu / Blue Metropolis Festival, featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with long black hair adored with two colourful birds, head tilted slightly with eyes cast downward, her hair spreading out above her - giving her the appearance of being under water.

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Online starting Mon, Apr. 14, 2025 & in person at various venues in Montreal from Thu, Apr. 24 – Sun, Apr. 27, 2025: Immerse yourself in reading & writing, books & authors from around the world at the annual Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival as it explores the theme “Time, the Tree, the Page”. Attendees are treated to live interviews, round-table discussions, public readings & book signings, performances, writing workshops, cocktail evenings & more.

Past event: Greyed out detail of the banner image for Yukon Words Festival, the words Writing for the North below the logo, with an illustration of a fountain pen emerging from a flower stem, drawing a curved line. Above the logo, a photo of the various participating diverse authors & poets.

2024 Yukon Words Festival

PAST EVENT: Three days only – Fri, Nov. 22 to Sun, Nov. 24, 2024: Yukon Words presents the 2024 Yukon Words Festival. This annual literary festival includes readings, panels and workshops, plus a headliner event and masterclass – this year featuring internationally renowned, best-selling author and storyteller Richard Van Camp.

Past event: Greyed out image for The Word on the Street Toronto Book & Magazine Festival, with an abstract, 3D modular illustration against a light green background of various environments created with books and architecture. Top left: an astronaut does a space walk outside their ship. Top right: a couple embrace. Bottom: A woman sits, legs crossed, in meditation. Above the image is a green ribbon banner with 35th Anniversary in white lettering. At the bottom: September 28-29. Queen's Park Circle, Toronto.

The Word on the Street Toronto 2024

PAST EVENT: Two days only - Sat, Sep. 28 & Sun, Sep. 29, 2024: Join authors, book & magazine sellers, & book lovers of all ages for The Word on The Street Toronto. Canada’s largest book & magazine festival, this annual outdoor event celebrates storytelling, ideas & imagination, plus promotes great books by Canadian & Indigenous authors year-round. Free admission.

Past event: Greyed out image of the detail of the book cover for RUFF A Novel, with mostly black font against a light blue background. The R is torn in the centre, the U is outlined in yellow, the first F is outlined in white and the last F is light blue with black outline.

Reading: Rod Carley in Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice

PAST EVENT: One night only – Wed, Sep. 18, 2024: Join author & journalist Waubgeshig Rice at the Stockey Centre for a conversation with author, actor & playwright Rod Carley, who’ll be reading from his new novel RUFF. A theatrical odyssey packed with an unforgettable cast of Elizabethan eccentrics, RUFF is a madcap world more modern than tomorrow, where gender is what a person makes of it.

Past event: Greyed out image of the graphic poster for Write Around the Murray, with white serif text against a dark blue background, with a red heart, yellow text bubble, light blue circle and a pink thought bubble. Bottom right: Save the date. 11 - 15 September.

Write Around the Murray Literary Festival 2024

PAST EVENT: Five days only! From Wed, Sep. 11 – Sun, Sep. 15, 2024: Write Around the Murray (WAM) is back! The annual literary festival offers an engaging program of award-winning authors, illustrators & storytellers, this year presenting around the theme of “Stories Within Stories”. 40 events, including panels, the WAM Poetry Slam, masterclasses, workshops, writing competitions, history & art tours, & more. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out image of the logo for the Vancouver Filipino-Canadian Book Festival, featuring the initials FCBF, set in a 4-part grid in purple font against a lavender background with mustard yellow decorative embellishments.

Filipino-Canadian Book Festival 

PAST EVENT: Three days only – Fri, July 12 to Sun, July 14, 2024: Massy Arts Society, Sampaguita Press & PilipinxPages present the inaugural Filipino-Canadian Book Festival. This event features a keynote from award-winning author & screenwriter Catherine Hernandez; book signings & panel talks; workshops; open mic readings showcasing emerging & established literary talent; plus a youth event.

Past event: Greyed out image of the illustrated poster (in English & French) for Metropolis Bleu / Blue Metropolis Festival, featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with long black hair adored with two colourful birds, head tilted slightly with eyes cast downward, her hair spreading out above her - giving her the appearance of being under water.

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival 2024

PAST EVENT. Online starting Mon, Apr. 15, 2024 & in person at various venues in Montreal from Thu, Apr. 25 – Sun, Apr. 28, 2024: Immerse yourself in reading & writing, books & authors at the annual Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival as it explores the theme “Utopias & Dreams”. Programming presented in English, French or both.