Events
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Upcoming Events
Toronto International Festival of Authors
In-Person
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Emmanuel College, Room 119
75 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto, ON
5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Eastern Time
It’s such an honour for me to be a part of this transformative year for TIFA as it moves to the heart of Toronto and expands its programming in a collaborative partnership with the Centre for Creativity at Victoria College. I’m even more honoured that, for my event, I’ll be sharing the stage with Guy Gavriel Kay – a master of the craft and a true Canadian treasure.
Our event is called “The Past Reimagined”, and there will be a book signing afterwards. Information on tickets and passes can be found here on the event page.
Whitby public library
In-Person
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Rossland Branch
701 Rossland Road East, Whitby, ON
2:30 – 3:30 p.m., Eastern Time
It may be too early for SOME people to think about the holidays, but my friend and fellow author Rachel McMillan and I never need any encouragement to share our favourite holiday books and movies. If you’re in the neighbourhood, come by and join us. It’s free, but the branch is small so seating is limited and registration is encouraged, which you can do here on the library’s page for our event.
Surrey International Writers’ Conference
In-Person & Virtual/Online
Thursday, October 22 – Sunday, October 25, 2026
This autumn, for the first time ever in their 32-year history, the organizers were forced to cancel the conference due to a labour dispute at the conference hotel. As you can imagine, this left them with some fairly crippling non-refundable costs (the airfare for all the presenters being only the beginning of it), so they’re now running an urgent GoFundMe in hopes of restoring some part of what was lost.
As most of you have heard me say before, SiWC is hands down my favourite writers’ conference, and the highlight of my working year, so I’m marking the dates here on my Events page for next year, because I’ll be there, no matter what, giving workshops, taking part in some panel discussions and moderating others, doing some blue-pencil critiques, trying to remember my lines at Michael Slade’s annual Shock Theatre, and filling every spare moment I can (when I’m not in the buffet line!) sitting in on the amazing range of sessions held by all the other writers who attend. I always come away from Surrey every year a little smarter and a whole lot more inspired to write. If you can only attend one writers’ conference, this is the one you should aim for.
Please donate to the GoFundMe if you can, even if it’s only a few dollars, and keep up to date on presenters and registration information in the meantime at the Conference’s website.
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