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Past Events
2026
April 19: Steeple Green Bookstore (Musquodoboit Harbour, NS)
Double book launch
with Jaime Forsythe
April 26: Halifax Central Library (Halifax, NS)
Double book launch
with Jaime Forsythe
May 18: DeStill Booksellers (Montreal, QC)
Temporary Palaces book launch
with Sean Michaels
May 19: Spark Beer & Pizza (Ottawa, ON)
Temporary Palaces book launch presented by Octopus Books
with Jennifer Whiteford
May 21: Take Cover Books (Peterborough, ON)
Temporary Palaces book launch
with Devon Code
May 25: Flying Books College (Toronto, ON)
Temporary Palaces book launch
with Niko Stratis and Emma Healey
May 27: Sookram’s Brewing (Winnipeg, MB)
Wild and Wonderful Worlds
with Sheldon Birnie, Allie Leigh, Cale Plett, Anna Leventhal, and Martha Bátiz
June 3: Bookmark (Charlottetown, PE)
Temporary Palaces book launch
with Katie Mac
2025
November 7: Sanctuary Arts Centre (Dartmouth, NS)
Put Me in Your Light record release show
with musicians Overnight and Catriona Sturton
2017
February 15: North Haven School (Calgary, AB)
Invited guest lecture and reading
February 16: Paul D. Fleck Library, Banff Centre (Banff, AB)
Quebec writer-in-residence Open Studio
with visual artist and writer Lise Haller Baggesen and musician Mandi Kujawa
2016
May 31: La Plante (Montreal, QC)
with poet Olivia Wood, musicians HSY, Hooded Fang, Holy Data, and short films by Florence Vallières, Stephanie E. Creaghan, Marlee Macmillan, and Talia Lee McColgan
October 25: Café le Cagibi (Montreal, QC)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle and Sarah Mangle
October 27: Venus Envy (Ottawa, ON)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle, Jennifer Whiteford, and Nshannacappo
2015
January 29: Café le Cagibi (Montreal, QC)
Ghost Pine #13 zine launch
with writers Amber Dearest and Jordan Coulombe
February 21: Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal, QC)
SLS Montreal Reading Nights
with writers Melissa Bull, Anna Leventhal, and Sean Michaels
March 4: Resonance Café (Montreal, QC)
Resonance Reading Series
with writers Melissa Bull, Anna Leventhal, and Sean Michaels
March 12: Dawson College (Montreal, QC)
Invited author talk and workshop in The Aesthetics and Practice of Creative Writing
March 17: Pressed Café (Ottawa, ON)
Ghost Pine #13 zine launch
with writers Alanna Why, Britt Neron, Lee Pepper, and Sadboy
June 20: Club SAW (Ottawa, ON)
Ottawa Explosion Zine Reading
with writers Jennifer Whiteford, Isz Janeway, and Sadboy
September 27: Dawson Community Centre (Verdun, QC)
Invited author talk in Writing from Scratch: A Creative Writing Workshop for Anyone
2013
August 3: Vogue Theatre (Sackville, NB)
Universal Dawn at SappyFest 8
with writers Lezlie Lowe, Ian Roy, Jenner Berger, Andrew Patterson, and musician Grey Kingdom
November 11: Depanneur Café, (Montreal, QC)
Shy: An Anthology book launch
with writers Eve Krakow and Brian Campbell
November 11: McGill University, (Montreal, QC)
Invited guest lecture and reading in Literature for Young Adults, Faculty of Education
November 16: Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus (Montreal, QC)
Expozine 2013
Moderated panel “No Fear of Zine Failure: Perspectives on Self-Publishing and Zine Culture” with writers Aaron Cometbus, Eloisa Aquino, Kerri Flannigan, and Louis Rastelli
November 17: Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal, QC)
On-stage interview with writer Aaron Cometbus
November 19: The Academy of the Impossible (Toronto, ON)
with writers Aaron Cometbus and Maggie MacDonald
November 20: Hammer City Records (Hamilton, ON)
with writer Aaron Cometbus
November 21: Pressed Café (Ottawa, ON)
with writer Aaron Cometbus
2012
July 24: Writers Federation of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS)
Invited guest lecture and reading at Write Now! writing workshop
2011
April 3: Divan Orange (Montreal, QC)
Expozine Alternative Press Awards
June 11: Bonnechere Union Public Library (Eganville, ON)
with musicians The Royal Family
July 30: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #26 (Sackville, NB)
SappyFest 6 Zine Fair Reading
with writers Sean Michaels, Ian Roy, Jenner Berger, and Jesse Dangerously
September 29: Café le Cagibi (Montreal, QC)
with writer Cindy Crabb
October 1: Venus Envy (Ottawa, ON)
with writers Cindy Crabb and Jennifer Whiteford
October 3: Tranzac Club (Toronto, ON)
with writers Cindy Crabb, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, and Laura Mac
November 22: Queen’s University (Kingston, ON)
Invited author talk and workshop in Life Writing. Department of English
2010
April 14: Gladstone Hotel (Toronto, ON)
This Is Not a Reading Series, Ghost Pine: All Stories True book launch
April 16: Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal QC)
Ghost Pine: All Stories True book launch
April 22: Novel Idea Bookstore (Kingston, ON)
Ghost Pine: All Stories True book launch
with writers Jaime Forsythe and Ian Orti
April 30: Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal QC)
with writer Ian Orti
May 6: Raw Sugar Café (Ottawa, ON)
Ghost Pine: All Stories True book launch
with writers Jennifer Whiteford and Adam Thomlison
July 3: Mixed Media Art Supplies (Hamilton, ON)
with writer Dave Roche
July 4: 20 Derry St. (Guelph, ON)
with writer Dave Roche, musicians North My Love and M. Mucci
July 5: This Ain’t the Rosedale Library (Toronto, ON)
with writers Dave Roche, Liz Worth, and Joey Comeau
July 6: Depanneur le Pick Up (Montreal, QC)
with writer Dave Roche
July 24: Sine Cera Gallery (Providence, RI)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle, Jacob Berendes, and Walker Mettling
July 25: Book Thug Nation (Brooklyn, NY)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle, Cristy Road, and Mike Taylor
July 26: Bluestockings Cooperative (Manhattan, NY)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle, Eleanor Whitney, and Cookie Hagendorf
July 27: Wooden Shoe Books (Philadelphia, PA)
with writer Erica Dawn Lyle
July 28: Red Emma’s Bookstore (Baltimore, MD)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle and China Martens
July 31: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #26 (Sackville, NB)
SappyFest 5 Zine Fair Reading
with Amanda Jernigan, Alisha Piercy, Chris Eaton, and Samantha Sternberg
August 4: Eye Level Gallery (Halifax, NS)
Ghost Pine: All Stories True book launch
August 6: The Khyber (Halifax, NS)
with writer Alisha Piercy
August 7: Conundrum Towers (Wolfville, NS)
with writers Alisha Piercy and Corey Frost
October 6: Concordia Co-op Bookstore (Montreal, QC)
Local Legends Reading Series
November 4: Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch Auditorium (Ottawa, ON)
2009
October 31: Toronto Zine Library (Toronto, ON)
with writers Alex Wrekk, Teri Vlassopoulos, Chris Landry, Suzanne Sutherland, Maranda Elizabeth, and Amber Dearest
November 14: Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus (Montreal, QC)
Expozine 2009
Moderated panel “Printed Matter or Printed Doesn’t Matter?” with writers Anna Leventhal, Jim Munroe, cartoonist Aaron Costain, and Drawn & Quarterly publisher Peggy Burns
2008
January 26: Café le Cagibi (Montreal, QC),
Ghost Pine #11, One Way Ticket #5 zine launch
with writer Julian Evans
August 19: This Ain’t the Rosedale Library (Toronto, ON)
with writers Erica Dawn Lyle, Joey Comeau, Cathy Crowe, and Dri
August 20: Invisible Cinema (Ottawa, ON)
with writer Erica Dawn Lyle
August 21: La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse (Montreal, QC) Greasy Goose Salon
with Erica Dawn Lyle, Zoe Stonyck, and Alex Megalas
August 26: Casa del Popolo (Montreal, QC)
Soulgazers II chapbook launch
with writers Spencer Krug, Anna Leventhal, Simon Reader, Michelle Min Sterling, and Camilla Wynne
September 13: Redbird Collective (Montreal, QC)
The Art of Trespassing anthology launch
with writers Dan Gillean, Anna Leventhal, Sean Michaels, J. B. Staniforth, Michelle Min Sterling, Vincent Tinguely, and Teri Vlassopoulos
September 14: Novel Idea Bookstore (Kingston, ON)
with Anna Leventhal, Stephen Guy, J. B. Staniforth and Vincent Tinguely
September 14: Wolfe Island Ferry (Kingston, ON)
with the Wolfe Island Story Cabal
November 29: Depanneur le Pick Up (Montreal, QC)
filmed for Pistol Press’s video Kitchen Reading Series
December 28: Casa del Popolo (Montreal, QC)
with musicians Laura Borealis and Steve Reagele
2007
March 3: Dervish Café (Montreal, QC)
with writers Adam Thomlinson, J. B. Staniforth, and musician Alden Penner
June 10: Café le Cagibi (Montreal, QC)
Soulgazers I chapbook launch
with writers Devon Code, Molly Lynch, Michelle Min Sterling, and Camilla Wynne
2006
May 25: 5217 St. Laurent (Montreal QC)
with musicians by New Idea Society, Sans Soucis Novelty Orchestra, and Bethany Or
July 14: Media Tree (Montreal QC)
recorded for the A-Infos Online Radio Project
July 28: Anchor Archive Regional Zine Project (Halifax, NS)
with historian Sara Spike and musician Sonia Edworthy
August 6: Struts Gallery (Sackville, NB) SappyFest 2
with writers Lesley Johnson, Robert Lyon, and musicians Julie Doiron, Snailhouse, and Abigail Lappell
September 21: Tok Tok Café (Montreal, QC)
with writers China Martens, Eric Lab Rat, and musicians Troy Curtis and Shanghai Triad
November 2: 5217 St. Laurent (Montreal, QC)
with Erica Dawn Lyle and musicians Black Magic Woman
2005
May 5: Media Tree (Montreal, QC)
with poet Paula Belina and musicians Alden Penner, Jen Osborne, and Nimalan Yoganathan
2004
February 21: SAW Gallery (Ottawa, ON)
Trash Can Lit 2
with writers Jennifer Whiteford, J. B. Staniforth, Chris Landry, Greg Sullivan, and musician Jeremy Gara
February 23: Aux Vivres (Montreal, QC)
with musicians Snailhouse and Jeremy Gara
May 20: 3810 St. Laurent (Montreal, QC)
with writer J. B. Staniforth, and musicians The Frenetics and The Million Dollar Marxists
June 25: Portland State University (Portland, OR) Portland Zine Symposium
July 16: The park at the corner of Elgin St. and McLeod St. (Ottawa, ON)
Ghost Pine # 8 zine launch
August 16: Café Petite Gaulle (Montreal, QC)
with musicians Soophie Nun Squad and Ballast
August 20: The Study Lounge (Ottawa, ON)
with writers Bucky Sinister, Megan Butcher, and Willow Dawson
2002
February 1: 1619 William St. (Montreal, QC) Trash Can Lit
with writers J. B. Staniforth, Chris Landry, Simon Reader, and musicians Heather Thompson and Darren Peacock
April 28: 5786 St. Laurent (Montreal, QC)
with musicians Arcade Fire and Shut In
October 5: The Khyber (Halifax, NS) Halifax Pop Explosion Zine Fair Reading
2001
April 17: Art System Gallery (Toronto, ON)
with writer Al Burian, the feature film Good Grief by Andrew Dickson, and a short film by Jim Munroe