Deconstructed: Building Solidarity Movements Amid Today’s Crises theintercept.com/2024/04/12/dec…

deep respect to the past BTC guests who withdrew from PEN America award consideration or its World Voices Festival. A desire for solidarity across difference, for what Christina Sharpe calls 'distributive risk,' is alive in all 4 of their books & in these acts—
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This Thursday in #Toronto : Another Story Bookshop presents 'Canada ReReads' featuring #CanadaReads finalist SHUT UP YOU'RE PRETTY. Join defender Kudakwashe Rutendo, author #TéaMutonji and VS. Books VS. Books editor VIVEK SHRAYA 🆚 for a lively conversation! CBC Books

Did I mention this? I may not have mentioned this. I get to read Another Story Bookshop on Tuesday with these stunning poets. The theme is weather but I promise it won't be boring. Come out and BRAVE THE ELEMENTS with us!

Scarborough for the win this week!

Wed April 17: free screening of Brother

Thurs April 18: Canada Rereads w/ HOT FUNNY GIRL VIVEK SHRAYA 🆚 Kudakwashe Rutendo

FREE!

Arsenal Pulp Press #canadareads VS. Books

Kudos to our friends at McNally Robinson Booksellers !

🎟️ Early bird tickets available now for our first Muslim Literary Festival on June 8th! 📚✨ Calling all Muslim writers: connect with fellow storytellers, learn from industry pros, and make your dreams reality. Let's fill the bookstores with our stories! 🪴shorturl.at/duF56

Such an honour to get to do an interview about my new Guernica Editions short story collection Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness with the wonderful people at Open Book 🧡📚🧡 thanks so much for having me

McNally Robinson McNally Robinson Booksellers is an indie bookstore that figured it out: Focus on #books /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-m…

Thank you CBC Books for including BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND in your Spring 2024 Children’s Book list!

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✨Giveaway✨ Would you like to a full set of this year’s shortlist? We’re giving away a copy of each of the shortlisted books to one lucky winner in the U.S. or Canada! Subscribe to our newsletter by April 16 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win: bit.ly/4aStiZb

We’re excited to share the full program for Muslim Literary Festival on Saturday, June 8!🌟

Early bird tickets will go live this weekend. 🎟️✨

Mark your calendars, & come connect with fellow Muslim writers & celebrate Muslim stories! Can't wait to see you in a couple months!🎉

On Tuesday, April 16th, current Guelph MFA candidate Lisa Richter Lisa Richter will be reading along three spectacular poets as part of Braving the Elements, a #NationalPoetryMonth event at Another Story Bookshop.

Very excited to announce On Solidarity: an Evening of Art and Conversation.

w/ Astra Taylor, Thea Lim, Suvendrini Lena, Dania Majid & Nahlah Ayed

Music by the incomparable Roula Said, Juan Dino Toledo & Nano Valverde
Hosted by Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا

tix: onsolidarity.eventbrite.ca

I spoke with Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about many things — about creating art during war, about the toll of destroying culture, about replanting flowers, and about birthdays and Eid in Gaza. I am deeply grateful for this conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/5nenUI…

Thank you to ⚛️ Paul Vermeersch ⚛️ @paulvermeersch.bsky.social for writing this wonderful piece about the complicated realities of book publicity and for celebrating a roundup of fabulous books from 2022, including The Employees by Olga Ravn.

Thanks for this brilliant essay In Mourning/In Rage. Thanks so much for the wonderful photo and connection to my friend and accomplice Amy Gottlieb. Our struggles continue as we expand our radical imaginations and possibilities.

Good news of the day: there’s a new indie press, focused on translation/global lit, on the scene! We can’t wait to see where Trace Press goes. buff.ly/3U4BKza

Beloved CBC radio host Jarrett Martineau is under attack by the pro-Israel lobby.

For playing a song by an Indigenous artist in solidarity with Palestine.

Let's flood the inboxes of the execs who pulled the episode of Reclaimed on CBC.

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📚 Join us on June 8 for our full-day festival featuring 'Pitch Perfection' workshop! Learn from industry experts Hana El Niwairi (CookeMcDermid) & Fazeela Jiwa (Fernwood Publishing) as they teach you to master crafting the perfect pitch. Ticket sales launching soon—stay tuned!