The Word on the Street Toronto - 2016 Festival Program Guide

FREE ADMISSION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 | 11AM–6PM HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

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HOW T O USE T HIS PROGRAM Review the Festival at a Glance on pages 8–13, or go directly to the venue descriptions Cover illustration by Christian Rosekat at rosekat.com.

Program Design by Propagation Media.

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F E S T I VA L GRE E T INGS FR OM T HE W OR D ON TH E STREET! Welcome to the 27th edition of our festival! We’re back at our new home at Harbourfront Centre, hoping to make this the best festival yet. The Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers are pleased as punch to celebrate both the best in Canadian writing and the value of literacy. Enjoy this showcase of the quality and diversity of Canadian literature, which can be experienced with ASL interpretation across 6 of our 18 programming venues!

Our amazon.ca bestsellers stage, located in the Harbourfront Centre Theatre, promises great readings for all audiences. 2015 Giller Prize winner André Alexis reads from The Hidden Keys. Awesome author Neil Pasricha returns with The Happiness Equation. Two of Canada’s most beloved writers for young readers, Gordon Korman and Kenneth Oppel can be seen, as can writers of adult fiction like Lisa Moore, Guy Gavriel Kay, TVO host Steve Paikin, and Amazon.ca First Novel Award winner, Mona Awad.

We’re thrilled to introduce two new stages in 2017, supported by Celebrate Ontario. Our genre zone stage features the best in Canadian science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and comic books, like Chester Brown and Madeline Ashby. And the new canadian magazines stage includes panel discussions among journalists and editors from leading Canadian print and online magazines.

We welcome the return of our author cruises aboard the tall ship Kajama, with themed segments like ‘Sweeping Romance’ or ‘Baseball Fever.’ You’ll also find cooks ’n’ books in a new location, with cooking demonstrations from the likes of Rose Reisman and Batch’s Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison. And our newly renamed teen spirit stage features the best in young adult writing, like Kevin Sylvester, Trilby Kent, and the Inspire Teen Reads book pitch competition.

Fans of literary fiction won’t want to miss the great books marquee, featuring Amy Stuart, Garfield Ellis, and Murdoch Mysteries’ Maureen Jennings, among others. The OMDC-supported vibrant voices of ontario features Jowita Bydlowska, Ann Y. K. Choi, and Stuart Ross. And the wordshop marquee, programmed by the Humber School for Writers, provides informative talks from editors and authors like Craig Davidson, Kim Echlin, and Shari Lapeña.

In the nothing but the truth tent, you’ll find Kamal Al-Solaylee investigating what it means to be brown in the world today, while Sandra Martin looks at the right to die.

Then head over to the toronto star tent to hear Star journalists and reporters debate Toronto’s transit quagmire and Trudeau’s first year.

Curious book lovers will certainly want to check out sculpting new reads — installations inspired by some of the festival’s titles — or see who jurors thought wrote the best books about the 6ix at the toronto book awards tent. And, as always, you can find the country’s most interesting publishers and authors in our exhibitor marketplace.

Have a blast while you explore all that Canadian writing has to offer as you explore the festival this year at Harbourfront Centre. We hope to see you there!

Holly Kent President of the Board of Directors

Evan Munday Festival Director

LE T T E R S OF GREETI N G

A M ES S A GE F RO M T HE PR IME MINIST E R OF CANADA Dear Friends: I am delighted to extend my warmest greetings to everyone taking part in The Word On The Street Toronto.

Since it was launched in 1990, this annual outdoor book and magazine festival has become the largest of its kind in Canada, with last year’s edition attracting more than 210,000 visitors. Featuring readings, workshops and panel discussions by some of our country’s finest authors, as well as hundreds of exhibitors offering the best in Canadian books and periodicals, The Word On The Street Toronto is a wonderful celebration of Canadian reading and writing.

Literacy is the foundation of opportunity and is integral to healthy communities. An appreciation of the written word opens up a world of possibilities for learning, discovery and pleasure. I would like to commend the event organizers for promoting Canadian authors and publishers. Special thanks are also due to the many sponsors, exhibitors and volunteers whose efforts are vital to the success of this event.

Please accept my best wishes for an enjoyable experience.

Sincerely,

The Rt. Hon. Justin P.J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada

A M ES S A GE F RO M T HE MAY OR OF T OR ONT O It gives me great pleasure to extend greetings and a warm welcome to everyone attending the 27th annual The Word On The Street Book and Magazine Festival.

Celebrating the Canadian written word, this free public festival will be an opportunity for book lovers to interact with writing and publishing communities that include small presses, independent authors and writing associations.

In keeping with The Word on the Street Toronto’s commitment to literacy, ten per cent of the total exhibit space is provided to literacy associations.

Festivals promote and encourage residents to have fun, participate in their community, connect with each other and contribute to the community’s strength.

On behalf of Toronto City Council, I wish everyone an enjoyable and memorable festival.

Please accept my best wishes for continued success.

Yours truly,

Mayor John Tory City of Toronto

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A S L P RO GRA MMING

On Sunday, September 25th, at Harbourfront Centre, visitors can attend nine ASLinterpreted readings, activities, and discussions on six programmed stages. The Word On The Street is again proud to partner with Ontario Cultural Society of the Deaf and Silent Voice Canada to present the following schedule of ASL accessible events. You can identify the ASL-interpreted segments in the program and our Festival at Glance pages by the distinctive ASL symbol. td children’s literature tent M A GGI E M CGILLICUDDY ’S E YE F O R T RO UBLE Susan Hughes amazon.ca bestsellers stage F L A N N E RY Lisa Moore T H E H A P P I N E SS E QUAT ION Neil Pasricha

1 1 :3 0AM – 11:5 0AM

1 2 :0 0PM – 12:30PM

1 2 :3 0PM – 1:00PM

sago mini children’s activity tent S K U N K O N A ST R ING Thao Lam

1 :1 5P M – 2:00PM

cooks ’n’ books stage P U RE LY P U M P KIN Allison Day

2 :0 0 PM – 3:00PM

learning tent A S L S T O RYT E L LING, R HY T HMS, A N D RH YM E S Gord DaDalt and Delia Avarell td children’s literature tent W H O B RO K E T HE T E APOT ? !

Bill Slavin teen spirit stage N E W S TA RT S FOR OUT CAST S featuring Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (Firsts), Trilby Kent (Once in a Town Called Moth), and Jane Ozkowski (Watching Traffic) cooks ’n’ books stage BAT CH Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison

2 :1 5P M – 3:00PM

3 :0 0 PM – 3:20PM

3 :3 0 PM – 4:15 PM

4 :3 0 PM – 5 :30PM

LIT E R ACY COM ES AL I VE

The Word On The Street Toronto is dedicated to the support and promotion of local literacy organizations. We proudly show our support by providing free exhibit space to 20 literacy groups in our exhibitor marketplace to help them promote their initiatives and raise money. Please visit literacy lane to learn more about each of these literacy groups. This year we’ve partnered with seven such organizations to program our learning tent, a venue for literacy groups to share family-oriented programming and activities. For a more detailed learning tent schedule, please visit page 88.

F R O N T I E R CO L L E GE Canada’s original literacy organization, Frontier College recruits and trains volunteers to deliver programs to children, youth and adults in communities across Canada. Founded in 1899, our programs have helped millions of Canadians improve their literacy skills and provide the confidence they need to reach their full potential. www.frontiercollege.ca ONB ID A ONBIDA, the Ontario branch of the International Dyslexia Association, is a scientific and educational organization committed to the study and treatment of the specific learning disability, dyslexia, and other language-based learning differences. ONBIDA provides information, scholarships, and educational programs to families and professionals seeking help for children with reading difficulties. Registered charity #85713 3078 RR0001 ONTA RI O C U LT U RA L SOCIE T Y OF T HE DE AF The Ontario Cultural Society of the Deaf (OCSD) works to promote Deaf culture and Deaf heritage in Ontario. OCSD supports and promotes Deaf people’s contributions to the fields of art, drama, and literature; strengthens family ties between parents and their Deaf child; and increases opportunities for the formal study of American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture.

PA L- R E A D I N G S E RV I CE S PAL-Reading Services is a Toronto-based non-profit organization serving the print-challenged community. Since 1975, our volunteers have provided free audio recordings of thousands of written texts for individuals who had no other way of accessing them.

S I LEN T V O I CE Founded in 1975, Silent Voice serves Deaf adults, youth, children, infants, and their families, in ASL, providing sports, recreation, and leadership programming; ASL instruction to families with a Deaf child; Sign Language Summer Camp; 1:1 support; housing centre; tax clinic; parenting program; Deaf Financial Literacy program and settlement services; and the ASL Services of the Ontario Infant Hearing Program of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services.

S TORY P L A N E T Story Planet is a creative non-profit that strives to empower young Torontonians to tell their stories. Our professional artists and writers facilitate experiences that inspire confidence and skill in storymaking and sharing. Through stories, we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, others, and our world.

VA L LUM S O C I E T Y F OR E DUCAT ION IN AR T S AND LETTERS VSEAL is a charity committed to literary education. VSEAL’s goal is to encourage and support poets at all stages of their career, while offering tools to the public for a better understanding and appreciation of literature and poetry.

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F E S T I VA L AT A GLANCE — ZONE 1

A M AZON.C A B E S T SE LLE R S S TAGE

AUTHOR CRUI SES

GEN R E ZO N E STA GE

11:00AM 11:15AM

FA R F ROM T R UE Linwood Barlcay

11:30AM 11:45AM 12:00PM

F LANNE RY Lisa Moore

A PI RATE’S LI FE FOR ME André Alexis, Gary Barwin

12:15PM 12:30PM 12:45PM

MYST ER IES A N D MAPLE LEAV ES Steve Burrows, Lisa de Nikolits, Dietrich Kalteis

T H E H A P P INE SS E QUAT ION Neil Pasricha

1:00PM 1:15PM

SWEEPI NG ROMANCE Peter Behrens, Katherine Govier, Jennifer Robson

1:30PM

NO R T H STA R S: CAN A D IA N SC IEN C E FI CT IO N Tanwa Adanlawo, Nathan Adler, Drew Hayden Taylor

CHIZIN E SH O W C A SE David Clink, Ian Keeling, Jason Taniguchi

AREN A Holly Jennings

1:45PM 2:00PM 2:15PM 2:30PM 2:45PM

M A S T E R M INDS: C R IM INA L DE ST IN Y Gordon Korman T H E H IDDE N KE YS André Alexis

3:00PM 3:15PM

MYSTERY ABOARD THE KAJAMA Ian Hamilton, Peter Kirby, Jeffrey Round

MARY W EPT O V ER THE FEET O F JESUS Chester Brown

E VE RY H IDDE N T HI NG Kenneth Oppel

CO MPA N Y T O W N Madeline Ashby

B ILL DAVIS Steve Paikin

THE 6 IX IN FO UR CO LO UR S Jason Loo, Nathan Page & Drew Shannon, Leisha Riddel

3:30PM 3:45PM 4:00PM 4:15PM 4:30PM 4:45PM 5:00PM 5:15PM 5:30PM

BASEBALL FEVER Morgan Campbell, Andrew Forbes, Stacey May Fowles, Dan Robson

THE SEC R ET LO V ES OF GEEK GIR LS Stephanie Cooke, Erin Cossar, J.M. Frey, Cherelle Higgins

13 WAYS OF LOOKI NG AT A FAT G IR L Mona Awad C H ILDRE N OF E ARTH AND S KY Guy Gavriel Kay

5:45PM 6:00PM

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FE ST IVAL AT A GLANCE — ZON E 1

N OT H ING B UT T H E T R UT H T E NT

SCULPTI NG NEW READS

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TORONT O STA R T EN T

11:00AM 1 1 : 1 5A M W H AT ’S YOUR S IS MINE Tom Slee

11:30AM 1 1 : 4 5A M

P R E C IOU S C A RG O Craig Davidson

QU E E R P ROG RE SS Tim McCaskell

SHANNON SCANLAN With work based on Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

B R OW N Kamal Al-Solaylee

T H E B ALLAD OF D A N NY W OLF E Joe Friesen

1 2 : 1 5PM 1 2 : 3 0 PM

1 : 0 0 PM 1 : 1 5PM 1 : 3 0 PM

DI ANA HOSSEI NI With work based on Olive Senior’s The Pain Tree

MARK LALI BERTE With work based on Malcolm Sutton’s Job Shadowing

1 2 : 0 0 PM

1 2 : 4 5PM JUSTI N T R UD EA U: T H E FI RST YEA R Bruce Campion-Smith, Chantal Hébert, Paul Wells

T V TA LK Soraya Roberts, John Semley

PAT IE N T S A RE A VIR T U E Teva Harrison, Kenneth Sherman

BI KES, C A R S, A N D SUBWAYS: T O R O N T O ’S TRANSI T MESS Edward Keenan, Jennifer Pagliaro, David Rider

1 : 4 5PM HI LLARY C LIN T O N VS. DON A LD T R UMP: WHAT I T MEA N S FO R CANADA Mitch Potter, Thomas Walkom

2 : 0 0 PM 2 : 1 5PM 2 : 3 0 PM 2 : 4 5PM 3 : 0 0 PM 3 : 1 5PM

T H E M ULT IC ULT U RAL M E T R O P OLIS Jay Pitter, Mohammad Qadeer

3 : 3 0 PM

W.W. HUNG With work based on Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky

3 : 4 5PM 4 : 0 0 PM

T H I S IS NOT M Y LIF E Diane Shoemperlen

4 : 1 5PM 4 : 3 0 PM

ON E NIGH T ONLY Ken Reid

4 : 4 5PM 5: 0 0 PM

A G OOD DE AT H Sandra Martin

5: 1 5PM 5: 3 0 PM 5: 4 5PM 6 : 0 0 PM

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F E S T I VA L AT A GLANCE — ZONE 2

C A NA DIAN M A GAZINE S S TAGE

11:00AM

11:30AM 11:45AM

12:15PM

LIVING T H E GR E E NER LIF E Tim Grant, Glenn Laycock, Tim McConnachie, Sam Stedman

12:30PM 12:45PM 1:00PM 1:15PM 1:30PM 1:45PM

LIT E RARY M AG A ZI NES: C R UC IB LE OF C A N LI T? Emily Donaldson, Laurie D. Graham, Nailah King, Janet Joy Wilson C ANADIA N IDE NTI TY B Y DE SIGN Liz Ikiriko, Erin McPhee, Sheila Sampath, Jonathan Valelly

2:30PM

KAY’S LUCKY COI N VARI ETY Ann Y.K. Choi

GU Y Jowita Bydlowska

ON THE SHORES OF DARKNESS, THERE IS LIGHT

NO T Y O UR MO T H ER ’S MO T H ER H O O D Marguerite Andersen, Margaret Christakos

Cordelia Strube HERI TAGE TORONTO AWARDS PANEL: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Barbara Dickson, Joan Roberts, John Sewell, Tatum Taylor

HEYDAY Marnie Woodrow

STA R T IN G O V ER Ann Y.K. Choi, Chase Joynt

VI O LEN T V O IC ES O F ON TA R IO Mayank Bhatt, Andrew Sullivan

THE WARD

2:00PM 2:15PM

V IBR A N T V O IC ES O F O N TA R IO T EN T

2 0 1 6 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS FI NALI ST VI DEOS

11:15AM

12:00PM

TORONTO BOOK AWARDS TENT

B R OKE N P E NC IL ZINE RAC E Alison Lang, Trevor Henderson, Patrick Sparrow, Jenn Woodall

John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, Tatum Taylor

MEN OF ACTI ON Howard Akler

WH ER E EV ERY BO D Y KN O W S Y O UR N A ME Stuart Ross, Nathan Whitlock

2:45PM 3:00PM 3:15PM 3:30PM 3:45PM

T H IS M AG A ZINE AT 50: T H E F U T U RE O F INDE P E NDE NT M EDI A Lauren McKeon, Shawn Micallef, Sheila Sampath, Priya Ramanujam, Daniel Viola

DI ASPORA DI ALOGUES: WRI TI NG TORONTO I N THE FUTURE Aparita Bhandari, Cherie Dimaline, Judy Fong Bates, Guillermo Verdecchia

4:00PM 4:15PM 4:30PM 4:45PM

C AN T H E G RE AT NOR T H W E AR W HI TE AF T E R LA B OU R DAY?: C ANADIA N FA S H I ON Randi Bergman, Tim Chan, Dalton Higgins, Tanya Watt

5:15PM

Cordelia Strube TO R O N T O PO ET RY SLA M! featuring Andre Prefontaine, Cody “Trick” Virag, Vulgar Words, and Justin Gordon TH E PO ET IC A N D T H E PO LIT IC A L Michael Fraser, Laurie D. Graham, Moez Surani

2016 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS FI NALI ST VI DEOS

5:00PM

ON THE SHORES OF DARKNESS, THERE IS LIGHT

YO UT H SPO K EN W O R D SH O W C A SE featuring BAM! Toronto Youth Poetry Slam Team

5:30PM 5:45PM 6:00PM

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FE ST IVAL AT A GLANCE — ZON E 3

G R E AT B OOKS M A RQUE E

TEEN SPI RI T STAGE

WORDSH O P MA R Q UEE

WHAT LI T ER A RY AGENTS A R E LOOKI NG FO R Carolyn Forde, Olga Filina S T IL L M INE Amy Stuart

P O E T RY: GE T IN FOR MAT ION Susan Holbrook, Pamela Mordecai, Vivek Shraya

T R A D I NG P LA C E S Melanie Mah, Malcolm Sutton

SEVEN SERI ES SHOWCASE Norah McClintock, Richard Scrimger, Ted Staunton

11:00AM 1 1 : 1 5A M 11:30AM

TAKE ME TO YOUR READER James Bow, Meaghan McIsaac, Kevin Sylvester

C A R IB BE A N LIT S P OT LIGH T Garfield Ellis, Olive Senior

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1 1 : 4 5A M MY RELAT IO N SH IP HURTS: LO V E AND FEELIN GS I N LI TERAT UR E Trevor Cole, Kim Echlin

1 2 : 0 0 PM 1 2 : 1 5PM 1 2 : 3 0 PM 1 2 : 4 5PM

YOU MU ST R EMEMBER THI S: WRIT IN G MEMOI R S Cathie Borrie, Craig Davidson

1 : 0 0 PM 1 : 1 5PM 1 : 3 0 PM

THI NKI NG DI FFERENT M.E. Reid, Wesley King

1 : 4 5PM

G R OW ING UP IS H A R D T O DO Nadia Bozak, Heather Tucker

I NSPI RE TEEN READS ROUND 1 Lynne Missen, Alison McDonald, Suzanne Sutherland

OVERCOMING THE ODDS: LONG JOURNEYS TO PUBLICATION Mona Awad, Ann Y.K. Choi, Shari Lapeña

2 : 0 0 PM 2 : 1 5PM 2 : 3 0 PM 2 : 4 5PM

U N H AP P Y FAM ILIE S Amy Jones, Zoe Whittall

D E A D GR OUND IN BETWEEN Maureen Jennings I ’ M T H INKING OF E N D ING T H ING S Iain Reid T H E J UNG LE SOUT H O F T H E M OU NTAIN Andrew Westoll THE BOOK OF LETTERS I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO SEND

NEW STARTS FOR OUTCASTS Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Trilby Kent, Jane Ozkowski

ORDI NARY TEENS, EXTRAORDI NARY STORI ES Susan Currie, Richard Scrimger

TO RHYME O R NOT TO R H Y ME? A LI FE I N PO ET RY Kitty Lewis, Carolyn Smart, Moez Surani

3 : 0 0 PM 3 : 1 5PM 3 : 3 0 PM 3 : 4 5PM

FI RST I M PR ESSIO N S: MANUSCR IPT EVALUAT IO N S Dominic Farrell, Kim Moritsugu

4 : 0 0 PM 4 : 1 5PM 4 : 3 0 PM 4 : 4 5PM

I NSPI RE TEEN READS ROUND 2 Wesley King, Norah McClintock, Kenneth Oppel

HOW TO GET PUBLI SHED Cynthia Good

5: 0 0 PM 5: 1 5PM 5: 3 0 PM

Steve Patterson

5: 4 5PM 6 : 0 0 PM

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F E S T I VA L AT A GLANCE — ZONE 4

C OOKS ‘N’ B OOKS

LEARNI NG TENT

SA GO MIN I CH ILD R EN ’S A C T IV IT Y T EN T

11:00AM 11:15AM 11:30AM

TA S T E OF P E R SIA Naomi Duguid

LET’S ALL READ: DI FFERENT WAYS TO READ PAL-Reading Services

WH AT N O ISE D O I M A K E? Brian McLachlan

LEARN TO PLAY AND PLAY TO LEARN! Frontier College

SAGO MIN I PLAY D AT E

LEARNI NG DI FFI CULTI ES: ARE THEY ALL THE SAME? HOW CAN I HELP? ONBIDA

SK UN K O N A STR IN G Thao Lam

ASL STORYTELLI NG, RHYTHMS, AND RHYMES Silent Voice

M A LA IK A’S C O ST UME Nadia L. Hohn

STORY PLANET’S CHARACTERMAKER WORKSHOP Story Planet

BUR T ’S WAY H O ME John Martz

BLACKOUT POETRY WORKSHOP Vallum

SO LUT IO N S FO R C O LD FEET A N D O T H ER LI T T LE PR O BLEMS Carey Sookocheff

11:45AM 12:00PM 12:15PM 12:30PM 12:45PM 1:00PM

T H E P RAIRIE G IR L C UP C AKE C OOKB O OK Jean Blacklock

1:15PM 1:30PM 1:45PM 2:00PM

P UR E LY P U M P KIN Allison Day

2:15PM 2:30PM 2:45PM 3:00PM 3:15PM

R USH H OU R M E ALS Rose Reisman

3:30PM 3:45PM 4:00PM 4:15PM 4:30PM 4:45PM

B AT C H Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison

5:00PM SAGO MIN I PLAY D AT E

5:15PM 5:30PM 5:45PM 6:00PM

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FE ST IVAL AT A GLANCE – ZON E 4

T D C H ILDR E N’S L I T E RAT U RE T E NT

TVOKI DS LI VE!

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YOUTH LA UN C H PA D

11:00AM

PI RATE SHOW

1 1 : 1 5A M MAGGIE MCGILLICUDDY’S EYE FOR TROUBLE

HI OPI E!

SPELLI NG BA E: K ID S

11:30AM

Susan Hughes 1 1 : 4 5A M JOSEPH’S BIG RIDE

Ken Daley TOKYO DIGS A GARDEN

1 2 : 0 0 PM

NOW YOU KNOW with Howie and Baboo

1 2 : 1 5PM

Jon-Erik Lappano, Kellen Hatanaka I AM NOT A NUMBER

1 2 : 3 0 PM

PI RATE SHOW

Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer VOI CE K O N - STA GE I NTERVI EW S Garfield Ellis, Wesley King, Gordon Korman

CELEBRATE THE TD GRADE ONE BOOK GIVEAWAY!

With author Ashley Spires

1 2 : 4 5PM 1 : 0 0 PM 1 : 1 5PM

CBC PRESENTS THE TD

1 : 3 0 PM

CANADIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD

RHYME S T EW C R EW Small Print TO

2016 SHORTLIST

1 : 4 5PM 2 : 0 0 PM

ODD SQUAD

2 : 1 5PM

MISSION MUMBAI

Mahtab Narsimhan 2 : 3 0 PM

SCI ENCE MAX WHAT I S PEACE?

Wallace Edwards WHO BROKE THE TEAPOT?!

PI RATE SHOW

DRAW Y O UR O W N COMI C WIT H C H IR P! Chirp Magazine

2 : 4 5PM 3 : 0 0 PM

Bill Slavin 3 : 1 5PM MATERMINDS: CRIMINAL DESTINY

Gordon Korman

ABBY AND SARAH MOUSE C IT Y Small Print TO

NONI SPEAKS UP

Heather Hartt-Sussman THE STONE THROWER

Jael Richardson

3 : 3 0 PM

SPECI AL MUSI CAL GUEST

3 : 4 5PM 4 : 0 0 PM 4 : 1 5PM

THREE THIEVES: THE IRON HAND

Scott Chantler MAYA

POLKAROO DANCE PARTY

4 : 3 0 PM SPELLI NG BA E: A LL AGES

Mahak Jain

4 : 4 5PM 5: 0 0 PM

GOOD PIRATE

Kari-Lynn Winters 5: 1 5PM 5: 3 0 PM 5: 4 5PM 6 : 0 0 PM

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O F F I CI A L BO O KSE LLE R S

U O F T B O O K ST OR E U of T is a proudly independent, not-for-profit bookstore featuring not just textbooks, but thought-provoking fiction and non-fiction books, great gifts for book lovers, and more. uoftbookstore.com U of T Bookstore will be selling frontlist and selected backlist titles for the authors appearing at the amazon.ca bestsellers stage, author cruises, cooks ’n’ books tent, genre zone stage, great books marquee, nothing but the truth tent, toronto book awards tent, vibrant voices of ontario tent, and the wordshop marquee from Author Signing Tables across Harbourfront Centre.

Additionally, U of T Bookstore will also sell titles for the authors featured in the td children’s literature tent and the sago mini children’s activity tent.

M A B E L’ S FA B LE S BOOKST OR E Located at 662 Mt. Pleasant Road, Mabel’s Fables is dedicated to providing the best children’s books to Toronto-area book lovers. After the festival, head down to Mabel’s Fables – it’s the kind of bookstore Toronto needs.

Mabel’s Fables will be selling frontlist and selected backlist titles for the authors featured on the teen spirit stage.

MOR E FE STI VAL F UN

G U ER RI L L A P O E T RY IN CANADA SQUAR E Poetry comes alive at The Word On The Street when the 2016 Toronto Poetry Slam team performs at 1:00 PM and BAM! Youth Poetry Slam team at 3:00 PM in Canada Square, just east of the Power Plant!

Expect to hear powerful, emotional poems, peppered with comedy and lots of energy!

Presented by Toronto Poetry Project and BAM! Youth Poetry Slam.

TD I N T E RA CT I V E S T O RY BOOK – SHAR E Y OUR ST ORY As title sponsor of td kidstreet, TD will be giving attendees a chance to have their picture taken for free inside a giant, 12-foot storybook. Through a digital app, attendees can write down their own story and then, along with their personalized storybook photograph, share it over email, Facebook, Twitter, or Weibo.

A U TH O R CRU I S E S O N T HE TALL SHIP KAJAMA Join a bestselling and engaging lineup of authors for four 60-minute Author Cruises on the beautiful Tall Ship Kajama. Last year, the Author Cruises in Toronto’s harbour were some of the most talked-about events of The Word On The Street. Cruises board at 11:45 PM, 1:15 PM, 2:45 PM, and 4:15 PM. For tickets, visit the festival website or head to the author signing area across from the Kajama (see the festival map) to purchase a ticket on-site. All ticket revenue supports author programming at The Word On The Street. See page 22 for the Author Cruises schedule. $20 Adults | $10 Children

Y O R K U N I V E RS I T Y WOR D ON T HE ST R E E T ANT HOLO GY Come to The Word On The Street and become a published author by the end of the festival!

The Word On The Street Instant Anthology is an instant publication produced by York University’s Writing Department for Word On The Street in Toronto. Anyone can submit work for the anthology. The work could be a reaction to a reading, event, an author, a happening — anything connected to the festival. In the great tradition of occasional writing, The Word On The Street Instant Anthology will document, analyze, and celebrate the events, people, and works that make up the festival as it happens. For more information see our website at www.WOTSInstantAnthology.ca.

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HOSTS Piya Chattopadhyay is the host of Out in the Open on CBC Radio — an adventurous and wide-ranging weekly one-hour program about the nuances of real life. Piya is a familiar voice on CBC, guest hosting The Current, Q, and Toronto’s morning show Metro Morning. Before that, Piya worked as a journalist in the field for ten years, three of those as a Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem. In her off-air life, she has three young children, and is married to fellow CBC journalist Peter Armstrong.

Mark Medley is the Globe and Mail’s books editor. He previously spent almost eight years at the National Post, where he served as books editor and wrote about arts and culture. A graduate of Queen’s University and Ryerson University, his work has appeared in publications across Canada, including The Walrus and Toronto Life. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife, son, and an evil cat.

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New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls. After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a break-in at her father’s house. Cal discovers a hidden room where salacious activities have taken place — as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But it may not be the discs the thief was interested in …

Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is still trying to solve two murders he believes are connected, since each featured a similar distinctive wound. And when yet another murder happens, Cal and Barry are both driven to pursue their investigations, no matter where they lead. But where they lead may be more horrific than either man can imagine. t penguin random house canada Linwood Barclay is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including Broken Promise, No Safe House, A Tap on the Window, Trust Your Eyes (which has been optioned for film), Never Look Away (which has been optioned for television), and No Time for Goodbye. The author has lived in Toronto, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and in England and Ireland, and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children.

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1 2 :0 0PM – 12:30PM Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school. Flannery is a spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore. t house of anansi Lisa Moore is the bestselling author of the novels February, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Alligator, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Flannery is her first book for young readers.

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T HE HAPPINE SS E QUAT ION

Neil Pasricha’s #1 international bestselling Book of Awesome series opened the eyes of readers around the world to the simple pleasures of everyday living. Now, he explains how anyone can actually build an awesome life in his brilliantly counterintuitive and delightfully engaging new book, The Happiness Equation. Drawing on more than a decade of developing leaders in many of the world’s most prominent companies, Pasricha presents his 9 Secrets to Happiness, each including specific and practical action steps that will lead to a more fulfilling life today. t penguin random house canada Neil Pasricha is the New York Times–bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series, which has sold more than a million copies. Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and the Director of the Institute for Global Happiness.

Pasricha lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

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MAST E R MINDS: CR IMINAL DESTI N Y

After their narrow escape from their “perfect” hometown, Eli, Tori, Amber, and Malik are finally in the real world and determined to expose the leaders of Serenity. They decide to go straight to the top, to track down Tamara Dunleavy, the mysterious billionaire and founder of Project Osiris. Evading capture by breaking laws and sneaking into houses, hotels, buses and cars — are they becoming the criminals they were destined to be? What they discover will change everything — leading them straight back into the Plastic Works and the heart of the experiment, in order to uncover the deadly criminals they’re cloned from and any evidence that will convince the outside world to believe the truth. On a breakneck journey from Jackson Hole to a maximum security prison, they will stop at nothing to take Project Osiris down. t harpercollins canada Gordon Korman has written more than seventy middle-grade and teen novels, including the New York Times bestselling The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book One: The Medusa Plot; the Swindle series; Ungifted; the Island series; Pop; Schooled; No More Dead Dogs; Son of the Mob; and many other favorites. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York.

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T HE HIDDE N KE Y S

Inspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable, what it means to be faithful, and what it means to sin. Parkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle. t coach house books André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Pastoral (nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and Lambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play.

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Embedded deep in the ancient rock and sand of the Badlands lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur. Some legends call it the Black Beauty, its bones as black as ebony, but to seventeen-year-old Samuel Bolt, it’s the “rex,” the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling paleontologist father in the history books. But Samuel and his father aren’t the only ones after the rex. This could be Rachel Cartland’s ticket to a different life, one where her loves of science and adventure aren’t just relegated to books. As their paths cross and the rivalry between their fathers intensifies, Samuel and Rachel are pushed closer together.

But with both eyeing the same prize, their flourishing romance seems destined for failure.

Can they join forces to find their quarry or will old enmities and prejudices keep them from both the rex and each other? t harpercollins canada Kenneth Oppel is the Governor General’s Award-winning author of the Airborn series and the Silverwing saga, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. His most recent novels are The Boundless and The Nest. A two-time nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, he lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.

BILL D AV I S : N AT I O N B U I L D E R , AND NOT SO BLA ND A F T E R A L L

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A biography of one of Ontario’s most important premiers, who, despite having been out of public life for thirty years, is remembered fondly by many as the head of one of Ontario’s most progressive, yet conservative, governments. t dundurn press

Steve Paikin is anchor of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO’s flagship current affairs program since 2006. He has written four previous books on politics, including Paikin and the Premiers. Paikin has spent thirty years in journalism, almost 25 of them at Ontario’s provincial broadcaster. He lives in Toronto.

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Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks — even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. Winner of the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. t penguin random house canada Mona Awad received her MFA in fiction from Brown University. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and many other journals. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing and English literature at the University of Denver.

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CHILDR E N OF E AR T H AND SK Y

From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request — and possibly to do more — and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor’s wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. As these lives entwine, their fates — and those of many others — will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world … t penguin random house canada Guy Gavriel Kay is the international bestselling author of twelve previous novels and a book of poetry. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in literature of the fantastic and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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HOST Deborah Dundas is the Books Editor at the Toronto Star after reviewing books for the paper for over 15 years. She has worked in the media for more than 20 years, including stints as Books Editor at Canada AM and producer at TVO — interviewing or producing shows on emerging artists, popular writers, and literary powerhouses. She was the onetime coordinator of Canada Book Day. She feels that the books beat is the perfect marriage of her experience in covering and interest in business, literature, politics, and lifestyle.

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Avast, ye scurvy sea dogs! It’s time for lively adventure and rousing literature on the high seas. Whether it’s the adventures of a Bar Mitzvah boy on a Spanish galleon or a reimagining of Treasure Island, this harbour tour will delight you with nautical tales perfectly matched to the setting.

T H E H I D D E N KE Y S Inspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable, what it means to be faithful, and what it means to sin. Parkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle. t coach house books André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Pastoral (nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and Lambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play.

YI D D I S H F O R PIR AT E S Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship’s crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes, and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth. t penguin random house canada Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multimedia artist, and the author of 20 books of poetry, fiction, and books for children. His recent books include the short fiction collection I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 (Anvil) and the poetry collections Moon Baboon Canoe (Mansfield) and The Wild and Unfathomable Always (Xexoxial). Born in Northern Ireland to South African parents of Ashkenazi descent, Barwin moved to Canada as a child. He is married with three adult children, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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SW E E PING R OMANCE

History, passion, and adventure unite the most recent works of bestselling authors Jennifer Robson, Katherine Govier, and Peter Behrens. Travel to 1924 France, 1930s Berlin, and the Canadian Rockies in 1911 for class struggles, sweeping romance, and personal transformation.

C A R RY M E During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. From golden Edwardian summers to London under Zeppelin attack, Ireland on the brink of its War of Independence, and Germany collapsing into the Hitler era — as a society loses its civic and moral bearings Billy and Karin’s childhood friendship deepens into a love affair with extraordinarily high stakes. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, Carry Me is an epic for grown-ups, an unusual love story, and a lucid meditation on Europe’s violent twentieth century. t house of anansi Peter Behrens’s first novel The Law of Dreams won the Governor-General’s Award for Fiction, and has been published in nine languages. His collection of short stories, Travelling Light, was reissued in 2013, and his second novel, The O’Briens, was published in 2011.

Behrens is a native of Montreal and was educated at Lower Canada College, Concordia University, and McGill. He has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University and was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He lives in Maine and Texas.

THE T H RE E S I S T E RS BAR AND HOT E L Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to Bow Valley — climbers, coal miners, artists, scientists, runaway aristocrats, and remittance men. Among the latter is poacher Herbie Wishart, who arrived on a one-way ticket and has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales.

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel is both sweeping and intimate, and bursting with heart, wit, and larger-than-life characters who rival the Rocky Mountain landscape for sheer brio. Katherine Govier writes an intimate story of romance and family, and a tantalizing historical — and prehistorical — mystery. t harpercollins canada Katherine Govier’s most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, was published in the United States, and in translation in Romania, Spain, Quebec, and Japan. Katherine’s novel Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She won the Marian Engel Award, the Toronto Book Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Trillium Prize.

The author of twelve books, Katherine has been instrumental in establishing the innovative Writers in Electronic Residence and The Shoe Project writing projects, the latter of which works to improve the written and spoken English of immigrant women. Katherine travels between Toronto and Canmore.

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M O O N L I GH T OVE R PAR IS It’s the spring of 1924, and Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr has just arrived in Paris.

Nursing a broken heart, she is ready to embrace the restless, heady allure of the City of Lights. She’s quickly drawn into the world of the Lost Generation and its circle of American expatriates, and with their encouragement, she finds the courage to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. One of those expats is Sam Howard, a journalist working for the Chicago Tribune. Irascible, plain-spoken, and scarred by his experiences during the war, Sam is simply the most fascinating man she has ever met. He’s also entirely unsuitable.

As Paris is born anew, rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the Great War, Helena realizes that she, too, is changing. The good girl she once was, so dutiful and obedient, so aware of her place in the world, is gone forever. Who will she become now? t harpercollins canada Jennifer Robson is the Globe and Mail-bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over. Moonlight Over Paris is her third novel.

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It’s murder aboard the Kajama — not literally, we hope. If daring forensic accountants, kidnapped journalists, and a punk retelling of And Then There Were None are your bag, you’ll want to hop aboard our special mystery cruise, featuring three of today’s finest authors in the genre — including the most recent winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, Peter Kirby.

T H E P RI N CE L ING OF NANJING In The Princeling of Nanjing, the ninth novel in the hugely successful Ava Lee series, Ava finds herself caught in a labyrinth of high-level political corruption that spreads to three continents. t house of anansi

Ian Hamilton is the author of the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee novels. The first book in the series, The Water Rat of Wanchai, was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Top 100 Editors’ Pick, an Amazon.ca Canadian Pick, an Amazon.ca Mysteries and Thrillers Pick, a Toronto Star Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year, and a Quill & Quire Top 5 Fiction Book of the Year. The Disciple of Las Vegas was a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Original Trade Paperback and The Wild Beasts of Wuhan was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. Most recently, The Two Sisters of Borneo was an instant Canadian bestseller.

OPEN SEASON A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid world of human trafficking, the secretive underbelly of a multinational mining corporation, and the hiding places of desperate refugees. When Vanier is brutally warned off the investigation, he throws away the rule book and goes after the villains with a vengeance. t linda leith publishing

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Peter Kirby was born in Ireland and grew up in the hardscrabble neighbourhood of Brixton in South London. He came to Canada as a cook, went to university at night, and eventually became a lawyer. He now practises international law in one of Canada’s largest law firms and is recognized by The American Lawyer as one of Canada’s leading 500 lawyers. Kirby’s latest title, Open Season, recently won the 2016 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. His previous books are The Dead of Winter (2012) and Vigilante Season (2013), both published by LLP. He lives in Montreal.

ENDG A M E Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island off the coast of Seattle. But once the band and their eclectic entourage arrive, a dark secret emerges from their past to haunt them as, one by one, the guests begin to fall prey to a mysterious fate. t dundurn press

Jeffrey Round is the author of nine novels, including the Lambda Award–winning Lake on the Mountain, and a poetry collection, In the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci. His first two books, A Cage of Bones and The P-town Murders, were listed on AfterElton’s Top 50 Greatest Gay Books. He is a founding member of the Naked Heart Festival of Words and lives in Toronto.

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BASE BALL FE VE R

As the Boys of Summer give way to October, you’ll want to discuss all things baseball. Step up to the plate as we transform the deck of the Kajama into a literary baseball diamond and talk to two authors and two sports journalists who, in a literary sense, have really hit it out of the park.

Morgan Campbell is a multilingual, multimedia journalist who covers the business of sport at the Toronto Star. He spent two years covering baseball, where his insightful features — especially about Latin American players and the issues facing them — earned him a reputation as one of the finest writers on the beat. Campbell is the author of “Fight of Their Lives,” a serial narrative about aspiring boxers. In 2004 he won the National Newspaper Award for “Long Shots,” an eight-part series about a high school basketball team. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

THE U T I L I T Y O F BO RE DOM A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. From learning about America through ball-diamond visits to the most famous triple play that never happened on Canadian soil, Forbes invites us to witness the adult conversing with the O-Pee-Chee baseball cards of his youth. The Utility of Boredom tells us a thing or two about the sport, and how a seemingly trivial game might help us make sense of our messy lives. t invisible publishing Andrew Forbes was born in Ottawa. He has written film and music criticism, liner notes, sports columns, and short fiction. His work has been nominated for the Journey Prize, and has appeared in publications including VICE Sports, The Classical, The New Quarterly, and This Magazine. What You Need, his debut collection of fiction, was published by Invisible Publishing in 2015. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

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Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and essayist. She is a columnist at the Globe and Mail, Open Book Toronto, and Blue Jays Nation, author of the popular Baseball Life Advice e-newsletter, and co-editor of Best Canadian Sports Writing (forthcoming fall 2017). She regularly writes about sports for Globe Debate, The Walrus, and Torontoist. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the National Post, Elle Canada, NOW Toronto, Deadspin, Jezebel, The Classical, Rookie, Hazlitt, Vice Sports, Quill & Quire, and Toronto Life. She lives in Toronto, where she is writing Perfect Game, a collection of essays on baseball to be published by McClelland & Stewart in March 2017.

C H A N GE U P Buck Martinez has been in and around professional baseball for nearly fifty years as a player, manager, and broadcaster. Currently the play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, Martinez has witnessed enormous change in the game he loves, as the game has morphed from a grassroots pastime to big business. In Change Up, Martinez offers his unique insights into how Major League Baseball might reconnect with its fanbase, how the clubs might train and prepare their players for their time in The Show, and how players might approach the sport in a time of sagging fan interest. t harpercollins canada Dan Robson is a senior writer at Sportsnet Magazine, and is the co-author of the bestselling book The Crazy Game, with Clint Malarchuk, and Change Up with Buck Martinez. He lives in Toronto.

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HO S T S Lesley Livingston is an award-winning author of teen and middle grade fiction, best known for Wondrous Strange, recently named one of CBC’s “100 YA Books That Make You Proud To Be Canadian”. Lesley’s current work-in-progress is a YA historical epic, The Valiant, which will be published in February 2017 by Penguin Razorbill (US) and HarperCollins (CAN) and tells the story of a 17-year-old girl’s journey from fierce Celtic princess to female gladiator and darling of the Roman Empire. Lesley’s books have sold to more than ten countries to date, and Wondrous Strange has been optioned for film/TV

by Shaftesbury Films.

Leah Bobet is a novelist, editor, and bookseller with Bakka-Phoenix Books, Canada’s oldest science fiction bookstore. Her debut novel, Above, was shortlisted for the Prix Aurora Award and the Andre Norton Award and commended by the CCBCs Best Books for Kids and Teens; her second, An Inheritance of Ashes, is an Ontario Library Association 2015 Best Bets selection and has been shortlisted for the Canadian Library Young Adult Book Award, the Aurora Award, the Cybils Awards, and the Sunburst Award. She lives and works in Toronto, where she dabbles in urban canning, knitting, and game design. Visit her at www.leahbobet.com.

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Drew Hayden Taylor gives classic science fiction (Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury) a First Nations spin. Nathan Adler crafts an Indigenous monster story to rival your worst nightmares. And Tanwa Adanlawo tells a fantastical story of a half-breed of two realms who struggles with being isolated from her two cultures. This is Canadian science fiction that grips you tighter than the Canadarm.

PHA N T O M RO S E It started with a story as ancient as ‘once upon a time’ in the realm of Hiliax. A story of treason and love that runs deeper than anyone knows. Lillianett is the latest chapter in that story, a half-breed of two realms that must survive the stigma of her ancestor’s choices.

For an entire year she will need to stay hidden and alive so she may return to Tarress realm (Earth). Unfortunately Lillianett is hot-tempered which makes her task nearly impossible.

Can she succeed in continuing this story or will she be the final chapter? t xlibris Tanwa Adanlawo was born in Nigeria and raised in South Africa. She completed her elementary and secondary education in Felixton College and is currently studying at the University of Toronto, Mississauga as a third year student. Tanwa has two supportive parents and two siblings, a brother and sister, who look up to her. Tanwa enjoys reading but her passion is in writing her own stories in which she incorporates her own experiences.

Phantom Rose is her first published work.

WR I ST In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones and blood. Set in the fictional town of Sterling and Ghost Lake Reserve, Wrist is Nathan Adler’s debut novel. t kegedonce press

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Nathan Adler is a writer and an artist who works in many different mediums, including audio, video, film, drawing and painting, as well as glass. He is an MFA candidate for Creative Writing from UBC, currently works as a glass artist, and is working on a second novel and a collection of short stories. Nathan won the 2010 Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge. He is a member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation, and currently resides in Mono, Ontario.

TA K E U S T O Y OUR CHIE F Take Us to Your Chief is a collection of classic science-fiction stories reinvented with a contemporary First Nations outlook. The nine stories in this collection span all traditional topics of science fiction — from peaceful aliens to hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor’s First Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a “good Native” in such an unnatural situation as a space mission. Infused with Native stories and variously mysterious, magical and humorous, Take Us to Your Chief is the perfect mesh of nostalgically 1950’s-esque science fiction with modern First Nations discourse. t douglas & mcintyre Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario and an award-winning playwright, journalist, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, scriptwriter, and documentarian. As a writer/creator, he strives to educate and inform about issues that interfere with, reflect on and celebrate the lives of Canada’s First Nations.

Using classic science fiction tropes filtered through First Nations perspectives Taylor is creating an exciting new genre that explores essential human and Aboriginal issues, all with his unique brand of humour.

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Though you may be tempted to envision maple syrup heists and beaver-napping, Canadian mystery writers have been busy crafting some of the finest and most intense crime thrillers north of the 49th parallel. Join Steve Burrows’s birder detective Domenic Jejeune, Dietrich Kalteis’s British Columbian ex-cop biker hunter Rene Beckman, and Lisa de Nikolits’s troubled Amelia Fisher — who uncovers a mystery in her own mental institution — to scratch your itch for great mystery writing.

A CA S T O F FALCONS A man falling to his death from a remote cliff sets off a high-stakes chase for Inspector Domenic Jejeune, who pursues a ruthless killer knowing any misstep could bring down wrath from above on Domenic, his family, and the entire police force. t dundurn press

Steve Burrows has pursued his birdwatching hobby on five continents. He is a former editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Magazine and a contributing field editor for Asian Geographic. The first book in the Birder Murder Mystery series, A Siege of Bitterns, won the Crime Writers of Canada 2015 Award for Best First Novel. Steve lives in Oshawa, Ontario.

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THE N E A RLY GI RL Fans of A Prayer for Owen Meany and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest will love this clever, fast-paced, and enjoyable thriller. Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a ‘normal life’, showing us how mythic the idea of ‘normal’ really is. With a poetic genius for a father, an obsessed body builder for a mother, and an enchantingly eccentric group seeking the help of an unorthodox therapist, what could possibly go wrong? Told with warmth, humor, and populated with vividly original characters, this sprint-paced novel has it all, from restraining orders to sex in office bathrooms, and a nailbiting ending. t inanna press Lisa de Nikolits is the award-winning author of six novels. The Hungry Mirror won a 2011 IPPY Awards Gold Medal and was longlisted for a ReLit Award. West of Wawa won the 2012 IPPY Silver Medal and was a Chatelaine Editor’s Pick, and A Glittering Chaos won the 2014 Silver IPPY Silver Medal. Canadian Living magazine declared Between the Cracks She Fell “a must-read book of 2015.” It recently won an IPPY Bronze Medal. Lisa is a member of the Mesdames of Mayhem, Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime – Toronto Chapter, and the International Thriller Writers.

TR I G GE RF I S H Rene Beckman is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel’s drug submarine, the date ends with a bang. With the cartel’s coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he’s forced to go on the run with half the underworld chasing him through the streets of Vancouver and the waters surrounding it. When the gangs start to go after his friends, the ex-cop stops running and faces the cartel and bikers head on.

Fast, vicious, and thrilling, Triggerfish delivers a story where all the criminals are in conflict and no one is certain who will come out on top. t ecw press Triggerfish is Dietrich Kalteis’s third novel. His debut novel, Ride the Lightning, won the bronze medal in the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards and was hailed as one of the best Vancouver crime novels. More than 40 of his short stories have been published internationally, and his screenplay Between Jobs was a finalist in the Los Angeles Screenplay Festival. He resides in West Vancouver and is currently working on his next novel.

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CHI Z I NE S H O W C A S E

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Since 1997, ChiZine has been the home to the weirdest, most surreal, and darkest Canadian science fiction and fantasy. Ian Keeling, Jason Taniguchi, and David Clink read from some of ChiZine’s latest publications: poetry, short story collections, and novels filled with invisible fairies, sea monsters, and shapeshifters.

T H E RO L E O F LIGHT NING IN E VOLUT ION This is speculative poetry at its best. Found in these pages are award winners and finalists: “A sea monster tells his story”; “The Perfect Library”; “A City of Buried Rivers”; “The Machine”. Poems go beyond monsters and time travel and post-apocalyptic visions. There is heart here, a love of family (no matter how strange that family may be), ghosts, a séance, shape shifters, a dragon made of words, an insect caught between dimensions, and a road that can feel your every footfall. Every poem is a journey beyond, a slice of another reality that lets us see our own existence in a different way. t chizine publications David Clink’s poetry has appeared in over 50 journals and 20 anthologies. He has two collections published by Tightrope Books: Eating Fruit Out of Season (2008) and Monster (2010). He edited an anthology of environmental poetry called: A Verdant Green (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2010). His third collection, Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu, was published by The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box in 2012. In 2014, Piquant Press launched David’s speculative poetry chapbook, If the World were to Stop Spinning.

THE SKIDS Live Fast, Die Fast. We Are The Program. They’re called the Skids. They’ve got three eyes, tank treads, and a bucket-full of attitude. They play the games and the few that don’t get vaped in the first weeks still die at five years old. Game over, thanks for playing. Johnny Drop’s the best skid the Skidsphere’s seen in generations, but he won’t get to enjoy it. Because his world is going to die. And then Johnny’s going to learn that the universe is larger than he ever dreamed. t chizine publications Ian Keeling is an odd, loud little man who acts a little, writes a little, and occasionally grows a beard. His short fiction and poetry have previously appeared in Realms of Fantasy, On Spec, and Grain. He’s on the faculty for sketch and improv at Second City in Toronto and likes all forms of tag and cheese.

V E RY S E N S I B LE ST OR IE S AND POE MS FOR G ROWN PERSON S Why hello, dear reader. You have in your hands a copy of Jason Taniguchi’s Very Sensible Stories and Poems for Grown Persons, which just may be the most singular artifact of our times. Yes, it contains some fine stories. Yes, it also provides some pleasing poetry. But that’s not all: already there are powerful forces at work upon you. These forces are even now meddling with your mind, nudging your neurons, sidling up to your spirit, so that you are saying to yourself, “Hmm! This looks like just the sort of unconventional book I’ve been looking for!” These are stories and poems. You are a grown person. Why not do the sensible thing? t chizine publications Jason Taniguchi is a writer and actor from Toronto. He has also both written for and appeared in the History Television series History Bites. Taniguchi is known for his oneman science fiction parody shows at Ad Astra, for which he received the 2003 Prix Aurora Award in the category Fan (Other). Jason is a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College in the University of Toronto.

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The RAGE tournaments: the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition pitting the best gamers against each other in a fight to the death. Every bloody kill is broadcast to millions.

Every athlete is a modern gladiator — living a life of fame, battling for the entertainment of the masses. And though the weapons and armor are digital, the pain is real. Kali Ling, the first woman to captain a RAGE team, is beginning to realize that even in the real world, not everything is as it seems. The VGL hides dark secrets. And the only way to change the rules of the game is by fighting from the inside... t ace books Holly Jennings is a life-long gamer who has spent innumerable hours playing World of Warcraft and Call of Duty. Arena is her first novel. She lives in Windsor, where she is working on the sequel.

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MARY W E PT OVE R T HE FEET OF JESUS

Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown’s fascinating and startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is a fitting follow-up to Brown’s sui generis graphic memoir Paying for It, which was reviewed twice in the New York Times and hailed by sex workers for Brown’s advocacy for the decriminalization and normalization of prostitution. Brown approaches the Bible as he did the life of Louis Riel, making these stories compellingly readable and utterly pertinent to a modern audience. t drawn & quarterly

Chester Brown was born in Montreal in 1960 and is best known for his two recent nonfiction graphic novels: the meticulously researched and Harvey Award-winning Louis Riel and the controversial, critically acclaimed Paying for It. Brown began self-publishing his comic book series Yummy Fur at twenty-three, and has been publishing with D+Q since 1991. He is the author of The Playboy, I Never Liked You, The Little Man, and Ed The Happy Clown. Brown lives in Toronto, where he ran for Parliament twice as a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada.

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New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Maritimes owned by the powerful Lynch family. Hwa is one of the last organic people on the rig — she’s forgone bioengineered enhancements — and, as such, is an outsider. Still, her record as a bodyguard extraordinaire means her services are in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she withstand death threats seemingly coming from another timeline? Meanwhile, a series of murders occurs that seem to lead right to Hwa. Company Town has never been safe — but now, the danger is personal. t tor/raincoast books Madeline Ashby grew up in a household populated by science fiction fans. After meeting Ursula K. Le Guin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company, she decided to start writing science fiction stories. Since then she has been published in Tesseracts, Flurb, Nature, and Escape Pod. She has a masters degree in manga and anime and writes on such matters for io9, Tor.com, and Boing Boing. She works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto, and is also a regular columnist for the Ottawa Citizen.

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T HE 6 I X I N F O U R CO L O U R S

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Toronto is the crucible of some of the most interesting comic books today — both mainstream superhero epics and more personal independent work. The people behind three of the most exciting new indie comics take the stage to discuss sadsack Toronto vigilantes, homages to teen sleuths, and feminist superheroes.

T H E P I T I F U L H UMAN-LIZAR D Toronto’s got a new superhero! And he’s pitiful! Lucas Barrett is an office clerk by day and struggling superhero on evenings and weekends. Since costume repairs and his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes strain his tight budget, Lucas volunteers as a test subject for a pharmaceutical company’s trial painkiller. After a disgusting ordeal leaves Lucas with newfound powers, the Human-Lizard is ready to take on any challenge that awaits him — from a supervillain interrupting his first date to dealing with monster-related transit delays! t chapterhouse comics Jason Loo is a Toronto-based cartoonist behind The Pitiful Human-Lizard comic series. He has contributed short comics for the Monstrosity comic anthology by Alterna Press as well as the third volume to the Toronto Comics Anthology. He has also done freelance illustration work for This Magazine, National Post, the Globe and Mail, and 24 Magazine.

T H E M O N TA GUE T W INS What begins as an idyllic summer’s day quickly devolves into a nightmare for twin sleuths Peter and Alastair Montague, who along with their step-sister, Charlie, are cast headlong into a terrible storm, at the centre of which lies their biggest mystery yet.

Nathan Page was born in Kingston, Ontario, where he began writing and performing at an early age. He moved to Toronto in 2010 and now, in addition to writing The Montague Twins, he is a therapist for children who have autism. This is his first comic.

Drew Shannon is Toronto illustrator born in London, Ontario, who moved after graduating from Sheridan’s Illustration program in 2011. Some of his clients include the Globe and Mail, Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, NPR, Unicef, and more. His first children’s book, Extreme Battlefields with author Tanya Lloyd Kyi, was published this year by Annick Press.

#P RO J E CT S O LACE #PROJECTSOLACE follows the story of Alex Wolfe, an illustration student whose life is turned upside down by the spontaneous development of super powers in her life. She joins the ranks of Project Solace, and millions of women and nonbinary folks around the world who have also experienced this awakening. She is brought to Project Solace to be “rehabilitated” — the government’s way of handling this outburst of super natural abilities. Though she soon learns she’s in for far more than she bargained for.

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Leisha Riddel graduated from Sheridan College’s Animation program in 2010. After graduating, she completed work for such clients as Nickelodeon, Disney, Titmouse Inc., and Capcom. The majority of her work focuses on character design and visual development. She is currently visual development on True and the Rainbow Kingdom with Netflix, Friends with You, and Guru Studio. She is also a member of Dames Making Games Toronto, where she has worked on several independent games, and the creator of #PROJECTSOLACE, a feminist graphic novel initiative based out of Toronto.

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T HE SE CR E T LOVE S OF GEEK GI RL S

An anthology of comics and prose stories that revolve around the intersection of love, dating, sex, and geek culture. Edited by Hope Nicholson, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls provides a fresh counterpoint to the mainstream narrative of loveless geek guys. Contributors Stephanie Cooke, Erin Cossar, J.M. Frey, and Cherelle Higgins, hearts on their sleeves and tricorders in hand, share their work at The Secret Loves of Geek Girls showcase.

THE SE CRE T L O V E S O F GE E K GIR LS The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel’s A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over 50 more creators, it’s a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi, to those that work behind the scenes. t dark horse comics Stephanie Cooke is the Editor in Chief of Rogues Portal and host of the Comicsbound and The Missfits podcasts, writer and contributor to The Secret Loves of Geek Girls and is formerly of JoBlo.com, Talking Comics, Agents of Geek, Word of the Nerd, and more.

Geek quiz mistress, and proud crazy cat lady (or Khatleesi).

Erin Cossar is an advertising and graphic designer at Penguin Random House Canada, an artist, and one of the organizers of Comic Shop Ladies Night (a group that hosts quarterly casual, inclusive social gatherings at local comics shops). Originally from Newfoundland, she currently lives in Toronto with her partner and three cats.

J.M. Frey is a voice actor, SF/F author, and professional smartypants on AMI Radio’s Live From Studio 5. She’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. Her debut novel Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, and was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011. Her sophomore novel, The Untold Tale (Accidental Turn Series #1), an epic feminist meta-fantasy, debuted to acclaim in 2015.

Cherelle Higgins is an award-winning graphic designer whose work has been profiled in Wallpaper and Chatelaine magazines. Born and raised in the UK she arrived in Ontario at age twelve and never looked back. She studied film and interactive multimedia at Sheridan College and later taught Advanced Digital Special effects there. In her free time she makes short films, writes short stories, lifts weights, and argues with harassers on the subway.

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Geoff Pevere has been writing, broadcasting, and teaching about movies, media, and popular culture for more years than he can currently count. He currently writes a weekly column and movie reviews for the Globe and Mail, and his most recent book is Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story, published by Coach House Books. He is also the author of Donald Shebib’s Goin’ Down the Road, Toronto on Film and co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey.

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W HAT 'S Y OUR S IS MINE

The news is full of their names: Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more. However, this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. In What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk.

Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality. t between the lines press Tom Slee writes about technology, politics, and economics and in the last few years has become a leading critic of the sharing economy. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry, a long career in the software industry, and his book No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart is a game-theoretical investigation of individual choice that has been used in university economics, philosophy, and sociology courses. He lives in Waterloo and blogs at www.tomslee.net.

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PR E CIOUS CAR GO: MY Y EAR OF DRI VI N G TH E K I DS ON SCHOOL BUS 3 0 7 7

One morning in 2008, desperate and impoverished while trying unsuccessfully to write, Craig Davidson plucked a flyer out of his mailbox that read, “Bus Drivers Wanted.” That was the first step towards an unlikely new career: driving a school bus full of special-needs kids for a year. For readers of Kristine Barnett’s The Spark, Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree, and Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon, Precious Cargo is a moving, important, and universal story about how we see and treat people with special needs in our society. t penguin random house canada Craig Davidson was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published four books of literary fiction, including Rust and Bone, which was made into a Golden Globe-nominated film of the same name, and Cataract City, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, was a national bestseller, and has been optioned for film. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his articles have been widely published across North America. He has also published a number of thrillers and horror novels under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. He lives in Toronto with his partner and child.

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How did a social movement evolve from a group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism?

Queer Progress recounts forty years of LGBTQ organizing in Toronto from 1974 to 2014, and charts the evolution of a social movement from its radical beginnings to its incorporation into Canadian citizenship as part of the country’s multicultural mosaic. It argues that this progress has been decidedly queer, as growing disparity under neoliberalism fractured our imagined community along lines of class, race, ethnicity, and gender, and political goals shifted from revolution to inclusion. t between the lines press Tim McCaskell is a long-time Toronto writer, activist and educator. He was a member of The Body Politic, AIDS ACTION NOW, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the chair of the Public Action Committee of the Right to Privacy Committee. He is presently a member of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and of the Community Council for the Triangle Program, Canada’s only public school program for LGBTQ youth. He received the City of Toronto Award of Merit for his human rights work in 1996. He is the author of Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality.

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1 :0 0 PM – 1:30PM Brown is not white. Brown is not black. Brown is an experience, a state of mind. Historically speaking, issues of race and skin colour have been interpreted along black and white lines, leaving out millions of people whose stories of migration and racial experiences have shaped our modern world. In this new book, Kamal Al-Solaylee fills in the narrative gap by taking a global look at the many social, political, economic, and personal implications of being a brown-skinned person in the world now. t harpercollins canada Kamal Al-Solaylee, an associate professor at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, was previously a distinguished writer at Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail. Al-Solaylee also worked at Report on Business magazine and has written features and reviews for the Toronto Star, National Post, The Walrus, and many others. Al Solaylee’s bestselling memoir Intolerable was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and Canada Reads, and won the Toronto Book Award.

T HE B A LL A D O F D A N N Y WOLFE

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The Ballad of Danny Wolfe is a gripping, fast-paced account of the life of the indigenous man who founded and led the Indian Posse, one of the most dangerous gangs in North America, into violence, power, and infamy. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Wolfe family and first-hand accounts from the people closest to the gang leader, Joe Friesen’s portrait of Danny Wolfe is at once riveting and timely, nuanced and provocative. t penguin random house canada

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Joe Friesen is a reporter at the Globe and Mail. He began his career in the Toronto newsroom covering crime and went on to write a series on the Jane-Finch area called The Neighbourhood. In 2006 he was named Prairie bureau chief based in Winnipeg, and since 2010 has reported on Canada’s changing population as the paper’s demographics reporter. In between, he also covered the war in Afghanistan, the aftermath of terrorist attacks in London, and natural disasters in the US. Born in Winnipeg, he is a graduate of McGill University, Goldsmiths College London, and Ryerson University. He lives with his family in Toronto.

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T V TALK

Sure, we’re a literary festival, but we like to watch our fair share of the boob tube, as well.

If you relish the chance to hear two whip-smart culture writers peer into the cathode ray, join John Semley and Soraya Roberts as they discuss their new books that chronicle and dissect two cult favourites: Canadian sketch show The Kids in the Hall and coming-of-age drama My So-Called Life.

THI S I S A BO O K A BOUT T HE KIDS IN T HE HALL This is a book about the Kids in the Hall — the legendary Canadian sketch comedy troupe formed in Toronto in 1984 and best known for the innovative, hilarious, zeitgeist-capturing sketch show The Kids in the Hall — told by the people who were there, namely the Kids themselves. John Semley’s thoroughly researched book is rich with interviews with Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, and Scott Thompson, as well as Lorne Michaels and comedians speaking to the Kids’ legacy: Janeane Garofalo, Tim Heidecker, Nathan Fielder, and others. It also turns a critic’s eye on that legacy, making a strong case for the massive influence the Kids have exerted, both on alternative comedy and on pop culture more broadly. t ecw press John Semley is a writer living in Toronto. His work has appeared in The Believer, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, Esquire, The A.V. Club, The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, and a whole bunch of other magazines, newspapers, and websites. He is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and the Toronto Star.

I N MY H U M B L E O P I NION: MY SO-CALLE D LIFE My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers. MSCL’s realistic representation of adolescence on TV was groundbreaking; without Angela Chase there would be no Buffy or Felicity, Rory Gilmore, or Veronica Mars. The series’ broadcast coincided with the arrival of third-wave feminism, the first feminist movement to make teen voices a priority, and 15-year-old Angela became their small-screen spokesperson. From her perspective, MSCL explored gender, identity, sexuality, race, class, body image, and other issues vital to the third wave. To this day, passionate fans dissect everything from what Rickie Vasquez did for gay representation to what Jordan Catalano did for leaning, and Soraya Roberts makes an invaluable contribution to that conversation with In My Humble Opinion. t ecw press Soraya Roberts still feels like a teenager even though she’s, like, old. She worked as an entertainment editor from 2005 to 2011 and is now a full-time writer. She has contributed long-form culture articles to Hazlitt, Harper’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She also appears in the anthology Secret Loves of Geek Girls (Bedside Press, 2015) and is currently working on a memoir about journalism. She lives in Toronto.

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Two authors diagnosed with cancer at very different times in their lives — 37 and nearly 60 — respond to the devastating news through their art. Teva Harrison has turned her experience with cancer into a moving memoir in graphic novel format. Kenneth Sherman, a poet, has documented his experiences within the health care system through eloquent prose. Both delve into the deep connection between illness and creativity. This talk is essential for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer.

I N - BE T W E E N D AY S Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcile her longterm goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal. t house of anansi Teva Harrison is a writer and graphic artist. Her graphic series on living with cancer was published in The Walrus, and she has commented on CBC Radio and in the Globe and Mail about her experience. Numerous health organizations have invited her to speak publicly on behalf of the metastatic cancer community. She lives in Toronto.

WA I T T I M E : A ME MOIR OF CANCE R When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. Sherman helps the reader understand the deep connection between disease and creativity — the ways in which we write out of our suffering. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or self-absorbed. t wilfrid laurier university press Kenneth Sherman is the author of several books of poetry including the highly acclaimed Words for Elephant Man and Black River. He has also published two collections of essays, Void and Voice and the award-winning What the Furies Bring. A new poetry collection, Jogging with the Great Ray Charles is forthcoming from ECW Press. He lives in Toronto, where he conducts poetry-writing workshops.

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T HE MULT ICULT UR AL ME T ROPOL I S

Toronto’s motto is ‘Diversity Our Strength,’ but has the slogan prevented us from confronting the forces that seem to be separating and isolating urban communities? Is our city a multicultural city, or is it a patchwork of divided cultural communities? And how does it stack up against North American metropolises like New York and Los Angeles?

Subdivided editor Jay Pitter and Multicultural Cities author Mohammad Qadeer are here with answers — and even more questions.

SUBDIVIDED Through compelling storytelling and analysis, Subdivided’s contributors — a wide range of place-makers, academics, activists, and journalists — ask how we can expand citybuilding processes to tackle issues ranging from transit equity and trust-based policing to holistic mental health, dignified affordable housing, and inclusive municipal governance.

Ultimately, Subdivided aims to provoke the tough but pressing conversations required to build a truly connected and just city. t coach house books Jay Pitter, one of Subdivided’s editors, established a career as a public funder and then a communications and public engagement director before earning a graduate degree at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Throughout her career, Jay has spearheaded noteworthy projects with organizations such as the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Toronto Police Service, the City of Toronto, the Toronto District School Board and DIALOG, a national architecture firm. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, York University, Centennial College and Seneca College, and was recently a faculty member at the University of Guelph-Humber.

Jay has also written for Spacing, CBC Radio, The Walrus, and the Toronto Star.

M U LTI CU LT U RA L C I T I ES: T OR ONT O, NE W Y OR K, A ND L O S A N GE L E S What are the defining features of a multicultural city? Mohammad Qadeer explores this vital question in his latest book Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles by looking at three ethno-racially diverse urban centres, in two countries: Toronto, Canada, and New York and Los Angeles, the United States. Qadeer chronicles the emergence of multicultural forms and functions under the aegis of civil rights and constitutionally guaranteed equal treatment in both countries. Based on the similarities and differences in the infusion of diversity in institutions of the three cities, Multicultural Cities sets forth a generic model of a multicultural city. t university of toronto press Mohammed Qadeer is Professor Emeritus of urban and regional planning, Queen’s University, where he was the Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning from 1985 to 1996. Dr. Qadeer has also served as a consultant-expert for various United Nations’ agencies, Canadian federal, provincial and local governments, as well as to the Government of Pakistan. He’s published widely on topics concerning planning for multicultural cities, ethnic enclaves, immigration and settlement, and international development. Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles is his most recent book.

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For almost six turbulent years, award-winning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. The relationship surprised no one more than her. How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past?

How do you date someone who is in prison? This is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shane — how they met and fell in love, how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a long-term prisoner attempting to return to society, and how, eventually, things fell apart. t harpercollins canada Diane Schoemperlen is the Governor General’s Award winning author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently By the Book: Stories and Pictures, a collection illustrated with her own full-colour collages, which was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

ON E NI G HT O N LY: C O N V E R SAT IONS W IT H T HE NHL’ S O N E - GA M E W O NDE R S

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From the beer league to the minor league, hockey players from coast to coast often say they’d give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 39 men who lived the dream — only to see it fade away almost as quickly as it arrived. Ken Reid talks to players who had one game, and one game only, in the National Hockey League — including the most famous single-gamer of them all: the coach himself, Don Cherry. t ecw press Ken Reid co-anchors the weeknight prime-time edition of Sportsnet Central alongside Evanka Osmak. He is also a co-host of Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown on Sportsnet 590 The FAN. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Ash, and his two boys, Jacoby and Langdon. He still dreams of playing just a single shift in the NHL, but that ain’t gonna happen. Jeff Marek hosts Sportsnet’s Thursday Night Hockey and co-hosts Hockey Central Saturday. He is also co-host of the Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast with Greg Wyshynski.

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In A Good Death, award-winning journalist Sandra Martin takes on our ultimate human right and charts the history of the right-to-die movement here and abroad through the personal stories of brave campaigners like Sue Rodriguez, Brittany Maynard and Gloria Taylor. Martin weights the evidence from permissive jurisdictions — such as the Netherlands, Oregon, California, Switzerland, and Quebec — and portrays her own intellectual and emotional journey through the tangled legal, medical, religious, and political documentation concerning terminal sedation, slippery slopes and the sanctity of life. t harpercollins canada Sandra Martin, an award winning journalist and broadcaster, writes The Long Goodbye column for the Globe and Mail. Her previous books include Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada, The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers, and the Explosion of Plastic Credit.

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CU RAT O RS Labspace Studio is an artist-led creative agency and art house run by Co-Directors John Loerchner and Laura Mendes. Together they develop interdisciplinary art projects, curate large-scale exhibitions, and experiment with new methods of collaboration. Their projects are often site-specific and participatory in nature, blurring the lines between art and life, incorporating elements of performance, installation, multimedia, and usergenerated content. Recent projects include commissions for Nuit Blanche Brussels, ILLUMINUS Boston, Nanaimo’s Public Art Program, Maison des Arts de Laval, Toronto’s Pam Am Games, Art in Transit, Harbourfront Centre, and No.9 Contemporary Art & The Environment. labspacestudio.ca 13 WAY S O F L O O K I N G AT A FAT GIR L

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Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks — even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. Winner of the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. t penguin random house canada Shannon Scanlan is a sculpture and installation artist currently living and working in Toronto. Her work investigates themes of body image and sexuality. Currently Shannon is making a series called Soft Manipulations that uses embroidery, beadwork, and zippers in a way that solicits tactile investigation. Born in Vernon British Columbia, Shannon Graduated from the University of Victoria with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2005. After travelling in the United Kingdom and working in Victoria, Shannon moved to Toronto in 2011 to complete her Master of Fine Arts at York University in 2013. Shannon has shown in Victoria, Montreal, Toronto, and Windsor. www.shannonscanlan.tumblr.com T HE PA I N T RE E B Y OL I VE S EN I O R

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The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. Olive Senior navigates the hills and valleys of narrative with natural ease, interweaving thick strands of emotion and insight yet never losing sight of a story’s ebb and flow. Her Pain Tree is an engaging, thought-provoking read that transports readers fully to another place where the unfamiliar and exciting clash and commingle with the universal. t cormorant books Diana Hosseini is a Toronto based artist who works predominantly with found or imagined objects and kinetic media to create sculptures and installations. She is inspired by the sounds and actions of the objects she selects, as well as events ranging from privately personal to culturally or socially significant. Hosseini completed an MFA in Sculpture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2013 and an Hon. BA in Medical Anthropology and Studio Art at the University of Toronto in 2010. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada. dianahosseini.com

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JOB SHADOW ING BY M A L C OLM SUTTON

An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic artist at the turning point of her career, falls deeper and deeper into the gravitational field of her ultra-wealthy employer.

Job Shadowing is a novel of our 20th-century desires torn asunder by the new millennium.

Through stylish, searching prose, it tests the grounds of impossible love, generational identity, and middle-class fantasy. t bookthug Mark Laliberte is a Toronto-based creator with an MFA from the University of Guelph.

By applying a curious, hybridized attitude to a project-driven practice, Laliberte has undertaken many different kinds of conceptual-collage explorations, completing a wide range of works with varying visual styles and approaches. He has exhibited across Canada and internationally, including: The Power Plant, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Art Gallery of Windsor, Narwhal Contemporary, CoCA Seattle, Exposure Gallery UK, and countless artist-run centres. He curates the experimental comics site 4panel.ca, and edits the eclectic art-lit journal CAROUSEL. In 2016, he will release three books: 4PANEL 1 — a comics-poetry anthology; Free for the Taking — a collaboration with artist Micah Lexier; and, asemanticasymmetry — a remixing of writer Derek Beaulieu’s letraset poems. marklaliberte.com 3 :3 0 P M – 4: 30P M

CHILDR E N OF E AR T H AND SKY

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From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request — and possibly to do more — and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor’s wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. As these lives entwine, their fates — and those of many others — will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world … t penguin random house canada W.W. Hung is a sculptor and installation artist based in Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo.

Exploring the human condition through contemporary figurative sculpture, W.W. Hung uses the human body, placed in abstract spatial contexts, to suggest different narratives and psychological states. Since 2010, his sculptural works have been exhibited regularly at galleries in Canada and the US, and can be found in many private collections. W.W. Hung is the recipient of the 2015 Al and Malka Green Sculpture Award, presented by the Sculptors Society of Canada. wwhung.com

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HOST Dan Smith is the former Insight editor at the Toronto Star and is the author of The Seventh Fire: The Struggle for Aboriginal Government.

BIKES , C A RS , A N D S U B WAY S: T OR ONT O’S T R A NS I T ME S S

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City Hall bureau chief David Rider, city hall reporter Jennifer Pagliaro, and city columnist Edward Keenan discuss Toronto’s transit crisis.

David Rider is the Toronto Star’s city hall bureau chief, in charge of covering Mayor John Tory’s administration and previously the coverage at city hall of former mayor Rob Ford.

Rider has also been an editor at the Star, a reporter and editor at other Canadian and international news outlets and an English teacher in Japan.

Jennifer Pagliaro is a city hall reporter for the Toronto Star. She was part of the team that covered the police investigation into former mayor Rob Ford and followed John Tory’s 2014 mayoral campaign. She has investigated controversial plans to build a subway to Scarborough and spent a year documenting life inside Toronto Community Housing. She was named Canada’s best young newspaper journalist in 2013.

Edward Keenan is a city columnist for the Toronto Star who has lived in the city all his life.

His book Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics, and the Invention of Toronto explores Toronto’s history and identity crisis in the years since amalgamation, and he is also the author of the children’s book The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics.

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Join Toronto Star political columnist Chantal Hébert, national affairs columnist Paul Wells and Ottawa bureau chief Bruce Campion-Smith as they evaluate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first year in office and national politics one year post-Stephen Harper.

Chantal Hébert, Toronto Star political columnist, cut her teeth in politics at Queen’s Park in the late seventies covering the minority governments of Premier William Davis. Since then she has reported in French and in English on Canada’s constitutional and referendum wars, the 1988 free-trade debate, as well as the ups and downs of federal politics over the last 35 years. In addition to her columns, Chantal is a regular member of the CBC’s At Issue panel, broadcast weekly on The National. Her second book, The Morning After, dealing with the 1995 referendum, was published in 2014.

Paul Wells is a national affairs columnist at the Toronto Star. Previously, Wells was the political editor of Maclean’s magazine. In 13 years at Maclean’s, he won three gold National Magazine Awards. His book, The Longer I’m Prime Minister, won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, the John W. Dafoe Book Prize, and the Ottawa Book Award.

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Bruce Campion-Smith is the Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star, reporting from Parliament Hill on federal politics and policy. He joined the Star in 1988 and has held a variety of positions in the newsroom, including transportation beat reporter, assistant city editor, and editorial writer. He joined the Ottawa bureau in 2003. He has covered four federal elections and twice travelled to Afghanistan to cover Canada’s military mission.

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With the U.S. presidential election scheduled for November 2016, foreign affairs writer Mitch Potter and national affairs columnist Thomas Walkom assess the potential impact on Canada-U.S. relations depending on whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is elected.

Mitch Potter, longtime foreign affairs writer and former Washington bureau chief, has filed from 33 countries since 2000, including coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he earned a National Newspaper Award.

Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star national affairs columnist, writes on political economy.

The winner of two National Newspaper Awards, he was the Star’s Queen’s Park columnist for eight years. Before that, he wrote for The Globe and Mail, first as an Ottawa parliamentary reporter, then as Tokyo bureau chief. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Toronto and is author of Rae Days: The Rise and Follies of the NDP. His column appears Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.

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LIV I NG THE GRE E N E R L I F E : LE SSONS FR OM E NVI R O NM E N TA L P U BL I S HE R S

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We all know that we should be doing more to live a greener and more environmentally supportive lifestyle, but most of us aren’t sure how. We’ve made some big climate promises as a country, and now we’re all going to need to take active steps to lighten our carbon footprint and embrace more sustainable products and solutions.

Join Tim Grant (Green Teacher), Glenn Laycock (Warren’s Waterless Printing), David McConnachie (Alternatives Journal), and Sam Stedman (Eco Parent) to learn how to live a greener life. Topics to be covered run the cradle to the grave: everything from greening your baby’s nursery through to how to have a truly natural burial … and everything in-between.

Tim Grant is A former high school teacher, Tim has for many years been the editor/ publisher of Green Teacher, a non-profit magazine for youth educators wanting to promote environmental literacy and global awareness amongst 5–19 year-olds.

Glenn Laycock has been with Warrens Waterless Printing for about 25 years now and have watched this company grow from a small shop into the company it is today: a leader in the industry for its quality of work and environmental management.

David McConnachie is a long-time publishing professional, having served as the NHL’s Director of Publishing from 1996 to 2000. He joined A\J as Business Manager in 2011 and has worked to support the ongoing media evolution of this 45 year-old environmental media nonprofit.

Sam Stedman is a former university professor, with a PhD in ethics and theatre from the University of Toronto, and a mission to make his family more eco-friendly, step by step, piece by piece. After over 10 years of post-secondary teaching, Sam branched out in an effort to inform and inspire a much wider audience to make positive, engaged, intelligent choices in the world.

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LIT E R ARY JOUR NALS: T HE CRUCI B L E OF CANLIT ?

Literary magazines have long been held up as the starting point of the countries best and brightest new authors. Where do editors find the stories and poems that populate their journals? How often do unsolicited stories and poems end up in their pages? What changes have these established journals undergone in recent years, and how do the editors keep their journals fresh? Editors from Brick, Canadian Notes and Queries, and Room reveal all in this showcase of Canadian literary journals and magazines.

HOS T Janet Joy Wilson is senior executive sales director at Penguin Random House Canada, the resident Book Lover at Global TV’s “The Morning Show,” and co-founder and outreach director of The Reading Line, a series of “book rides” aimed at raising awareness of bike routes in need of infrastructure improvements. She is also co-captain of Cycle Toronto’s Ward 13 advocacy group, and 100in1Day urban intervention leader of Slow Down Jane, an initiative to slow down vehicular traffic on Jane Street. She lives and breathes books and bicycles, and is always looking for new ways to talk about them.

PA R TI CI PA N T S Emily Donaldson’s book reviews and writing appear regularly in national newspapers including the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star as well as a variety of periodicals. In 2015 she became first female editor-in-chief of Canadian Notes & Queries (CNQ), Canada’s oldest magazine of culture and literary criticism. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives in Toronto with her husband, the designer/director Craig Small, and their two sons.

Laurie D. Graham’s first book of poetry, Rove, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Poems from her second collection, Settler Education, were shortlisted for the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize and won The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry. Graham holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of Guelph. She is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal, as well as an instructor at Fanshawe College. She grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and now lives in London, Ontario.

Nailah King wants to live in a world where meetings are brief, stories are magic, and .gifs reign supreme. In 2016, she co-edited Room’s Women of Colour issue. She is an alumnae of UBC in English Literature and moved to Toronto to chase those publishing dreams.

She is currently working on a web series, a novel, and retaining her sanity.

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CA NA D I A N I D E N T I T Y BY D E SIGN

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What does Canada look like? When you’re given the responsibility of depicting a Canadian family, a Canadian workplace, what is taken into consideration? Magazine designers and art directors talk about how they represent the multifaceted Canadian identity in magazines in print and online.

HOST Jonathan Valelly is a writer, zinester, and community artist. His writing has appeared in Xtra!, Noisey, Quill & Quire, among others, and he is the assistant editor at Broken Pencil Magazine. He is also a co-editor at Gay 4 Pay Press, a zine distributor focusing on radical politics and gay men. He is a lead artist and bookmaker with Making Room Community Arts in Parkdale.

PA RT I C I PA N T S Liz Ikiriko is the Director of Photography for St. Joseph Media’s Special Projects team and the Art Director for online journal — The Ethnic Aisle. She is the former Photo Editor of Toronto Life Magazine. She previously was a Visual Researcher on the CBC television show — George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. She has been a judge and portfolio reviewer at CONTACT Photo Festival, OCADU and the Flash Forward Photo Competition. In her independent curatorial research — she is pursuing Pan-Africanism and the history of cultural identity in Canada.

Erin McPhee is a freelance illustrator, designer, and art director based in Toronto. Erin received her BAA in Illustration from Sheridan College. She is the Art Director of Quill & Quire magazine, and has previously worked as a print & packaging designer for Roots Canada, and as a contributing designer for Today’s Parent magazine. She is also the Web Art Director for shamelessmag.com, the online branch of Shameless magazine; an independent publication which publishes intersectional feminist content for smart and sassy youth.

Sheila Sampath is an artist, educator and activist designer. She is the Principal and Creative Director at The Public, a social justice design studio specializing in community-based processes and participatory design; the Editorial and Art Director of Shameless magazine, a Canada-wide feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth; and an Assistant Professor of alternative and speculative practices in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University. Her first book, Letters Lived, focusing on feminist lineage, was published in Fall 2013 under the Three O’Clock Press’ Women’s Press imprint, and her current art practice explores themes of intergenerational trauma, memory-loss, and ritual through displacement and diaspora.

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BR OKE N PE NCIL ZINE R AC E

Presented by Broken Pencil Magazine, the 2016 Word On The Street Zine Race will see three of Toronto’s wildest and weirdest artists battle against each other to the death! Indie comix heavyweights Jenn Woodall, Trevor Henderson, and Patrick Sparrow will each create a giant comic in 30 minutes or less based on suggestions from audience members.

While the zines are being made, the crowd will get hands-on playing a game we like to call Broken (Pencil) Telephone Zine Making. In the end, a randomly chosen panel of judges picked from the audience will decide the winner and award the third annual Word on the Street Zine Race trophy and a prize pack to the lucky winner.

HOS T Alison Lang is the editor of Broken Pencil Magazine. She also loves freaky comics, cheeseburgers and ghost hunting.

PA R TI CI PA N T S Patrick Sparrow is a man — or a man-esque creature — from other worldly regions. He likes to draw gross out ghouls and monsters and goons, because that’s what he identifies with. He is the creator of wildly unpopular comic Dirtbaby and Bonecat as well as author of the book 100 Monsters and the curator of Simpzine (yes, an all-Simpsons zine) and Squatch Watch.

Trevor Henderson is an illustrator working in Toronto. He grew up on a steady diet of horror films, weird comics, video games, cartoons, and monsters. You can contact him at: trevorhenderson86@gmail.com.

Jenn Woodall is an illustrator, designer, and cartoonist who dwells in Toronto. Jenn creates her own comics and curates zines. Her current ongoing series is titled, ’Magical Beatdown.’ She is the creator and editor of FIGHT! zine, a project which invites illustrators to create their own original female fighting game characters.

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TH IS M A G AZ I N E AT 50: T HE FUT UR E OF IN DEPEND E N T M E D I A

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This Magazine is Canada’s leading progressive publication of politics, arts, and culture, covering everything from feminism and LGBTQ rights to mental health, racism, and more. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary year, This editor Lauren McKeon leads a discussion with panelists Daniel Viola (Maisonneuve), Sheila Sampath (Shameless Magazine), Priya Ramanujam (Urbanology), and Shawn Micallef (Spacing) on why independent media is now more important than ever, and what role this form of journalism will play in the next fifty years.

HOST Lauren McKeon has been the editor of Canada’s progressive, independent This Magazine since December 2011. Before that, she worked as a reporter, editor, and writer in the North for several years, living in Yellowknife, and travelling Canada’s territories and northern Alberta to write about everything from prisons to the Peel Valley. Her work has most recently appeared in Toronto Life, where she is a contributing editor, as well as FLARE, Hazlitt, and The Walrus. In 2015, she won a gold National Magazine Award in the personal journalism category for her Toronto Life piece “Save me From My Workout.” She tweets infrequently @mckeonlauren.

PA RT I C I PA N T S Shawn Micallef is the author of The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class, & the Pursuit of Leisure, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, and Full Frontal TO, all Coach House Books publications. He is also a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prize–winning magazine Spacing.

Shawn teaches at the University of Toronto and was a 2011–2012 Canadian Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College. His forthcoming book, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness will be published by Random House in early 2017.

Priya Ramanujam is a self-employed journalist most passionate about using her writing, interviewing, and editing abilities to share stories and perspectives often underreported, misrepresented, or missing from “legacy media”. In 2004, while in journalism school, she co-founded Urbanology Magazine, an independent magazine focused on music, arts, culture, fashion, and technology from a “hip-hop generation” point of view, with Adrian McKenzie. Priya contributes regularly to many publications — many alternative, independent or community based — such as LiisBeth, New Canadian Media and The Scarborough Mirror. She strongly believes in the power of mentorship and social entrepreneurship. Connect with her @SincerelyPriya Sheila Sampath is an artist, educator and activist designer. She is the Principal and Creative Director at The Public, a social justice design studio specializing in community-based processes and participatory design; the Editorial and Art Director of Shameless magazine, a Canada-wide feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth; and an Assistant Professor of alternative and speculative practices in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University. Her first book, Letters Lived, focusing on feminist lineage, was published in Fall 2013 under the Three O’Clock Press’ Women’s Press imprint, and her current art practice explores themes of intergenerational trauma, memory-loss, and ritual through displacement and diaspora.

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Daniel Viola is the editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, Reader’s Digest Canada, and Motherboard, among others.

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CAN T HE GR E AT NOR T H WEAR WH I TE AFTER LABOUR DAY ? : CANADIAN FASH I ON

Is there a Canadian style? Can a country so large, so diverse, and so close to a style megapower differentiate itself in the world of fashion? Representatives from Canadian fashion publications talk about what is and what isn’t Canadian fashion, with examples of designers and companies across the country.

HOS T Dalton Higgins is a publicist, National Magazine Award-winning journalist, and author of six non-fiction books. His latest book, Rap N’ Roll, is a collection of essays about pop culture that digs into everything from contemporary music, counterculture, race, and technology, to public transportation (TTC), globalization, and the publishing industry itself.

PA R TI CI PA N T S Randi Bergman is a fashion writer/editor based in Toronto whose work has been published in Vogue, The National Post, Interview Magazine, Broadly and Toronto Life.

Previously, Bergman was the Executive Digital Editor of FASHION Magazine, overseeing its wealth of content and growing the digital platform into an award-winning and recordbreaking hub for fashion, beauty, shopping, and cultural content and increasing its social following to the largest of any magazine in Canada. Randi also co-chairs the Canadian Opera Company’s annual gala, Operanation.

Tim Chan is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Corduroy Magazine — an international arts and culture bi-annual. What started as a passion project between friends has grown into an award-winning publication, recognized around the world for its design and editorial philosophy. Prior to Corduroy, Tim worked in television, producing the morning show for Time-Warner cable news network NY1, before returning to Canada to work at MuchMusic and E!. Currently, Tim lives and works in Los Angeles, where he consults for a number of fashion and lifestyle companies. A native of Toronto, Tim obtained his B.A. from McGill and a Masters of Journalism from Columbia University.

Tanya Watt has held creative positions at FLARE, Weddingbells, enRoute, and Toronto Life magazines. In 1996, she pioneered flare.com, the first online fashion and beauty website in Canada. Tanya maintained her position as FLARE’s Art Director for 17 consecutive years before joining Judy Inc as a freelance Creative Director. Tanya is a regular consultant for the National Magazine Awards and the Advertising and Design Club of Canada and is a guest instructor at Ryerson University.

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Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety is a bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. Told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, this critically-acclaimed book vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures. Family secrets, forbidden loves, domestic assaults — Mary discovers that life is much more complicated than she had ever imagined. t simon & schuster canada

Originally from Chung-Ju, South Korea, Ann Y.K. Choi immigrated to Canada in 1975. She attended the University of Toronto where she studied English, Sociology, and Education. Ann graduated from the Humber School for Writers, the Creative Writing Certificate Program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, and is completing her MFA in Creative Writing from the National University in San Diego, California.

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Harriet is 11 going on 30. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for her brother Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin’s love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart. t ecw press

Cordelia Strube is an accomplished playwright and the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, including Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, and Lemon. Winner of the CBC literary competition and a Toronto Arts Foundation Award, she has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Prix Italia, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

H ERI TA G E T O RO N T O AWA R DS: PAST, PR E SE NT, FU TU R E — W RI T I N G A B O UT COMMUNIT IE S, A CTI V I S M, A N D CI T Y B U I L D ING

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What does history change? Heritage Toronto’s Book Award celebrates exceptional nonfiction works that explore this question. Many of this year’s nominees focus on the power of communities to shape their civic destinies. Discover how writing about the past can affect our understanding of the present through this panel discussion, moderated by Bianca Spence, with authors and editors of four Heritage Toronto Award-nominated books: Barbara Dickson (Bomb Girls), Joan Roberts (Cracked), John Sewell (How We Changed Toronto), and Tatum Taylor (The Ward). Then, join us on October 17th at the Heritage Toronto Awards and Kilbourn Lecture, where we will celebrate these and other outstanding contributions to our city’s heritage. Visit heritagetoronto.org for more information.

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In Marnie Woodrow’s second novel, two lively girls meet aboard a Toronto Island roller coaster in 1909 and a modern-day woman who grieves the loss of her partner. Heyday is a double-barreled story about nostalgia, the soul’s quest for pleasure and the power of love to endure through lifetimes. t tightrope books

Marnie Woodrow is the acclaimed author of two short fiction collections, Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss, and In The Spice House. Her novel, Spelling Mississippi, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Prize. Her second novel, Heyday, is a two-era love story set on Toronto Island.

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From the 1840s until WW2, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto landed in ‘The Ward.’ This area, considered by the city to be a slum and bulldozed in the 1950s, was a working class enclave bounded by College, Queen, University, and Yonge streets that housed bootleggers, Chinese bachelors, workers from nearby Eaton’s garment factories, and peddlers. t coach house books

John Lorinc is a Toronto journalist, author and editor. He has written extensively about urban and municipal affairs in general, and Toronto in particular, for a range of publications, including Spacing, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, and Toronto Life.

Michael McClelland is a Toronto-based architect working for E.R.A. Architects. He’s actively involved in promoting Canada’s architectural heritage and is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants (CAPHC). He received a certificate of recognition from the Ontario Association of Architects and the Toronto Society of Architects for his contributions to architecture.

Dr. Ellen Scheinberg is the President of Heritage Professionals, a consulting company in Toronto that delivers archival, museum and information management services. Ellen has published articles about archival studies, women’s history, labour history, Canadian Jewish studies, and immigration history, and was the recipient of the Ontario Historical Society’s Scadding Award of Excellence and the Alexander Fraser Award.

Tatum Taylor is a writer and heritage specialist at ERA Architects. She holds a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia University, where she worked on the editorial team for the Future Anterior Journal. She is actively involved with ICOMOS Canada and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario’s Executive Committee.

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After his father undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on the complicated texture of consciousness. During the long months that follow, Akler confronts the unknowable nature of another person’s life, as well as the struggles within his own unpredictable mind. t coach house books

Howard Akler is the author of The City Man, also published by Coach House Books, which was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in Toronto.

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Hosted by Aparita Bhandari and featuring George Elliott Clarke, Cherie Dimaline, Judy Fong Bates, and Guillermo Verdecchia, this year’s DD panel will explore the multifaceted question: How would one write Toronto in the future? Based on the city’s current trajectory, would a book or a play taking place in 2030 or 2040 Toronto be a dystopian piece or utopian? What characterizes each fate in the context of the city? Our panel will also have an interactive component, allowing audience members to partake — in which a select few will have the chance to write a paragraph to be critiqued by the panelists.

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Shortlist Howard Akler Men of Action Ann Y. K. Choi Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg & Tatum Taylor (Editors) The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood Cordelia Strube On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light Marnie Woodrow Heyday In partnership with the

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HOSTS Grace O’Connell is the author of the Canadian bestseller Magnified World, published as part of Random House’s New Face of Fiction program. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, This Magazine, ELLE Canada, Sharp for Men, The Journey Prize Stories, and many other publications. In 2014, she won the Canadian Authors Association’s Emerging Writer Award. Her second novel, Be Ready for the Lightning, is forthcoming in summer 2017.

Tashauna Reid is an entertainment reporter for CBC News appearing regularly on CBC News Network and CBC Toronto. She has covered the Toronto International Film Festival to Canada Day on Parliament Hill. Tashauna started her career behind the scenes as an Associate Producer on The National where she worked with reporters and contributors.

She has also worked as a local TV and radio reporter in newsrooms across the country, from Fredericton to Edmonton.

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1 1 :3 0AM – 12:00PM Guy is a successful talent agent who dates models, pop stars, and women he meets on the beach. He’s a narcissistic, judgmental snob who rates women’s looks from one to ten; a racist, homophobic megalomaniac who makes fun of people’s weight; a cheating, lying, manipulative jerk who sees his older girlfriend as nothing more than an adornment. His only real friend, besides his dog, is a loser who belongs to a pick-up artist group. Guy is completely oblivious to his own lack of empathy, and his greatest talent is hiding it all — until he meets someone who challenges him in a way he’s never been challenged before. t wolsak & wynn Jowita Bydlowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to Canada as a teen. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Drunk Mom. A journalist and fiction writer, she lives in Toronto.

NO T Y O U R M O T H E R’ S M OT HE R HOOD

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In the Trillium Award-winning The Bad Mother, Marguerite Andersen offers a fictional retelling of how she left an abusive home — and her children in the process. Margaret Christakos looks at the life of contemporary mother and all that entails — menopause, daughters, depression, selfies, and more — in her multidisciplinary work, Her Paraphernalia. Join these two authors as they explore the choices of mothers and the ways they love their children.

T H E BA D M O T HE R As the world labels her a wife, a mother, and eventually a bad mother, the character of Marguerite wrestles with her own definition of personhood. Can you love your children and want your own life at the same time? This fictionalized account of the author’s life is written with brutal honesty, in spare, pithy, and often poetic prose, as she expresses her conflicted feelings concerning a difficult time and the impact it had on her sense of self.

Andersen confronts the large and small choices that she made — the times she was there for her children and the times she wasn’t — all the while asking, “What kind of mother am I?” t second story press

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Marguerite Andersen is an accomplished writer and lecturer. She has taught French and translation (English, French, and German) at several universities and has also worked as a translator and interpreter for diplomats and writers. Dr. Andersen was the editor of Canada’s first feminist anthology in the 1970s, Mother was not a person. She has written several novels, short story collections, and plays. She lives in Toronto.

HER PA RA P H E RN A L I A: ON MOT HE R LINE S, S EX / B L O O D / L O S S & SE LFIE S Margaret Christakos’s latest book, Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies, is a love song to her mother and daughter. Formed of ten intimate études that move from considerations of mothering, sex and photography to settler bloodlines, erasure and divorce, Her Paraphernalia profoundly embodies the feelings of living as a woman and a mother in all its tumult and precocity and promise. At once daring, erotic and original, Her Paraphernalia explores the beauty of the selfie, menopause, daughters, lust, solo travel, depression, the death of a parent, the writing life, and women’s transgenerational vitality, among other interwoven themes. t bookthug Margaret Christakos has published nine collections of poetry, including Multitudes (2013), Welling (2010; A Globe100 book), Sooner (2005; a Pat Lowther Memorial Award nominee), and Excessive Love Prostheses (2002; winner of a ReLit Award), as well as a novel, Charisma (2000; a Trillium Book Award nominee). Christakos designed and facilitated Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon from 2006 to 2012 and was Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor (2004–05).

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The path upon which one’s life begins may not always be the best route; sometimes, people have to dynamite their own path. A young Korean-Canadian girl, torn between her dreams and her parents’ demands, watches as her family falls into chaos. A media artist transitions from female to male while another comes back from a near-death experience from AIDS. Authors Ann Y.K. Choi and Chase Joynt prove that there are many second acts in Canadian life.

K AY ’ S L U CK Y C O I N VAR IE T Y Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety is a bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. Told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, this critically-acclaimed book vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures. Family secrets, a lost sister, forbidden loves, domestic assaults — Mary discovers as she grows up that life is much more complicated than she had ever imagined. t simon & schuster canada Originally from Chung-Ju, South Korea, Ann Y.K. Choi immigrated to Canada in 1975. She attended the University of Toronto where she studied English, Sociology, and Education. Ann has also graduated from the Humber School for Writers, the Creative Writing Certificate Program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, and is completing her MFA in Creative Writing from the National University in San Diego, California. In 2012, she received the Marina Nemat Award.

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YO U O N LY L I VE T W ICE What if it’s not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending book, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales, confessional missives that map out the particularities of occupying what they call ‘second lives’: Chase’s transition from female to male and Mike’s near-death from AIDS. Weaving cultural theory with memoir and media analysis, YOLT asks intimate questions about what it might mean to find love and hope through conversation across generations. t coach house books Chase Joynt is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer. Recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and jury awards for Best Documentary and Best Short, Chase’s work continues to be exhibited internationally. Chase is a PhD candidate in Film at York University and a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago.

VIOL ENT V O I C E S O F O N TAR IO

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Ontario may be Yours to Discover, but it can also be a place ever on the brink of violence.

A couple crashes their car into an escaped lion as a crew of skinheads roam a city laid low by economic collapse. A suburban family discovers their son is involved in a terrorist plot.

Waste and Belief take two Ontario towns and turn them over to see the worms crawling underneath.

WA S T E Larkhill, Ontario. 1989. A city on the brink of utter economic collapse. On the brink of violence. Driving home one night, unlikely passengers Jamie Garrison and Moses Moon hit a lion at fifty miles an hour. Both men stumble away from the freak accident unharmed, but neither reports the bizarre incident. Haunted by the dead lion, Moses storms through the frozen city with his pathetic crew of wannabe skinheads. Jamie struggles with raising his young daughter and working a dead-end job in a butcher shop, where a dead body shows up in the waste buckets out back. Somewhere out there in the dark, a man is still looking for his lion. His name is Astor Crane, and he has never really understood forgiveness. t dzanc books Andrew F. Sullivan is from Oshawa, Ontario. His debut short story collection, All We Want Is Everything (ARP Books, 2013), was one of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2013.

Sullivan no longer spends his days handling raw meat, boxes of liquor, or used video games. Waste is his first novel.

BELIEF An up-and-coming, modest Muslim family in Mississauga discovers their son Rafiq’s involvement in a plot to bomb locations in Toronto. Belief tells the story of the family’s escape from Bombay to Canada; their small success, epitomized by their proud ownership of a house in Mississauga; and Rafiq’s attraction to fundamentalist ideas. Rafiq, it appears, has rejected these ideas, but how does he explain the plot details found on his computer?

Told simply, impartially, and with great understanding and empathy, this very Canadian novel describes the trauma of a family unable to understand their child’s mind as they anxiously await his fate. t mawenzi house

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Mayank Bhatt immigrated to Toronto from Bombay (Mumbai) in July 2008 with his wife Mahrukh and son Che. Soon after, he joined the Humber College mentoring program, where MG Vassanji was his mentor. His short stories have been published in TOK 5: Writing the New Toronto, Canadian Voices II, and Indian Voices I. He has worked as a security guard, a journalist, and an administrator. He blogs at www.generallyaboutbooks.com.

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W HE R E E VE RY BODY KNOWS YOUR N AM E

Author Nathan Whitlock chronicles the failures and minor successes of a middle-aged bar owner and slightly younger server. Poet Stuart Ross moves from his typical surrealism into more intimate poems about the relationships and connections that keep loved ones together. Dark humour and unexpected relationships bring these works together in our minds, and their authors together on our stage.

A S PA RRO W CA M E DOW N R E SPLE NDE NT Stuart Ross is known as the author of some of Canada’s most audacious poetry. Long celebrated for his absurdist narratives and gut-punch humour, in A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent Ross confronts more intimate subject matter — investigating the often complex but always powerful connections between loved ones. Surreally punctuated portraits of family members, childhood friends, heroes, mentors — and even himself — are rendered with arresting care. From the cemetery to the playground, and from the punk club to the synagogue, Ross takes his readers on adventures both wild and tender. t wolsak & wynn Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photo-copier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going to Hell,” selling over seven thousand chapbooks. He is the author or co-author of twenty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as scores of chapbooks, leaflets and broadsides. Stuart was a member of the short-lived improvisational noise trio Donkey Lopez. He is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective and has his own imprint, a stuart ross book, at Mansfield Press. Stuart lives in Cobourg, Ontario, and blogs at bloggamooga.blogspot.ca.

C O NG RAT U L AT I O N S ON E VE RY T HING A Toronto service industry lifer, Jeremy has risen through the ranks until he finally takes the keys to his destiny and opens his own place, The Ice Shack. Everyone assumes Ice Shack daytime waitress Charlene is innocent and empathetic, but in reality she’s desperately unhappy. A drunken encounter sends Charlene and her boss careening. As Jeremy struggles to keep his business afloat, he’ll stop at nothing to maintain his successful, good guy self-image. A dark and comic novel, Congratulations On Everything is a hilarious and occasionally uncomfortable dose of anti-foodie reality that reveals what goes on when the customers and Instagrammers aren’t around — and even sometimes when they are. t ecw press Nathan Whitlock’s award-winning fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Toronto Life, Report on Business, FLARE, Fashion, Geist, Maisonneuve, and Best Canadian Essays, and he has appeared on radio and television discussing books and culture. Heather O’Neill called A Week of This, Whitlock’s first novel, “a portrait of people in a small town so intimate that it feels like you are under the covers with them.” He is a contributing editor for Quill & Quire. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

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Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin’s love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She’s his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart. t ecw press Cordelia Strube is an accomplished playwright and the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, including Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, and Lemon. Winner of the CBC literary competition and a Toronto Arts Foundation Award, she has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Prix Italia, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

A two-time finalist for ACTRA’s Nellie Award celebrating excellence in Canadian broadcasting, she is also a three-time nominee for the ReLit Award.

T OR O NTO P O E T RY S L A M !

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Introducing the 2016 Toronto Poetry Slam Team — Andre Prefontaine, Cody “Trick” Virag, Vulgar Words, and Justin Gordon. This talented group of firecrackers are always ready to blow your mind with their word wizardry and fierce passion for expression.

Covering a variety of topics ranging from oppression to Pokémon, these four poets will give you all they’ve got, and still have you begging for more.

Hosted by David Silverberg, the artistic director of Toronto Poetry Slam. His most recent book of poetry is Bags of Wires, and he edited Canada’s first spoken word anthology, Mic Check.

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A poetic catalogue of the language used by military operations since 1945. An exploration of the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake in 1885. Odes to inspirational figures throughout Black history. Recent poetry collections by Moez Surani, Laurie D. Graham, and Michael Fraser take their poetic tools to build monuments to antimilitarism, decolonization, and Black pride in our Vibrant Voices of Ontario poetry showcase.

T O GRE E T YO UR SE LF AR R IVING To Greet Yourself Arriving pays tribute to inspirational and illustrious figures throughout black history. A wide range of individuals such as activists, artists, and athletes are showcased in Michael Fraser’s powerful poetic portraits — Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, Harriet Tubman, Oscar Peterson, Oprah Winfrey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and P.K. Subban.

In his foreword to this groundbreaking poetry collection, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke writes, “Fraser gives us characters who, even if tortured by their experiences of “race” and/or racism, win through to a stardom that edges into heroism…” t tightrope books

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Michael Fraser is a Toronto high school teacher, poet, and writer. He has been published in various national and international journals and anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2013. His manuscript, The Serenity of Stone, won the 2007 Canadian Aid Literary Award Contest and was published in book form by Bookland Press in 2008. He won FreeFall Magazine’s 2014 and 2015 poetry contests and is the creator and former director of the Plasticine Poetry Series.

S ETTL E R E D U C AT I O N In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake — the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement.

In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, Settler Education reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. t penguin random house canada Laurie D. Graham’s first book of poetry, Rove, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Poems from her second collection, Settler Education, were shortlisted for the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize and won The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry. Graham holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of Guelph. She is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal, as well as an instructor at Fanshawe College. She grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and now lives in London, Ontario.

OPER AT I O N From Moez Surani comes Operation — a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted by UN Member Nations since the organization’s inception in 1945. With Operation, Surani shows that no word is free from connoting violence while he provokes people to consider whether their personal values match the values of the military operations that are conducted by their countries, often in the name of protecting those same citizens. t bookthug Moez Surani has travelled, studied, and worked in countries around the world. His writing has been featured in numerous publications, including the Best Canadian Poetry (2013 and 2014), The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Harper’s Magazine, and PRISM International. His poetry publications include collection, Reticent Bodies (2009), and Floating Life (2012). In 2009, he won a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and later, attended artists’ residencies in Italy, Finland, Latvia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Canada. His latest book, Operation, (BookThug 2016) was a 2014 finalist for Les Figues Press Book Prize.

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This year we’re sharing the mic with Toronto youth! Join the award winning BAM! Toronto Youth Poetry Slam Team, and selected teen poets ages, 12-19. BAM! Team members include: Regan Campbell, Casey Garcia, Maymuna Mohamed, Faith Paré, and Jaylen Stark. From gritty rhyme-slingers to literary geniuses, individually they are masters of their craft; but together, they are the Megazord of spoken word poetry. They will make you laugh, cry, snap, grunt, and question everything you learned about poetry in grade 12 English.

Host Patrick de Belen is an award-winning spoken word artist, a youth educator and the director/coach of BAM! Toronto Youth Poetry Slam. Known for his hard-hitting punchlines and rhythmic delivery, Patrick’s poems are provocative, relatable, and, like, super cool.

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HOSTS Susan G. Cole is the author of two books on pornography and violence against women and is the Entertainment and Books Editor at NOW Magazine, Canada’s premiere news and entertainment weekly. Follow her on twitter @susangcole.

Steven W. Beattie is the review editor at Quill & Quire magazine and the short-fiction columnist for the Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto.

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1 1 :3 0AM – 12:00PM Clare is on the run. She’s hiding in a remote mountain town, looking for Shayna, a local girl who disappeared. Did Shayna flee? Was she killed? Or is she still alive? Twisting and electrifying, this bestselling thriller will make you question what it means to lose (and find) yourself in the most unlikely places. t simon & schuster canada

Amy Stuart won the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. She is a recent masters’ graduate from the University of British Columbia. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and her three sons. Visit AmyStuart.ca.

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Toronto is lucky to be the home of some of the best writers of Jamaican background, including Michener Fellow Garfield Ellis and Commonwealth Writing Prize winner Olive Senior, both of whom will read from their latest acclaimed books.

T H E A N GE L S ’ SHAR E Everton Dorril discovers that his father has run off to track down a woman he has been in love with for thirty-five years. His father’s refusal to return home leads Everton to reluctantly join him on his quest. He discovers that his father, frightened and unhappy with the failings of his past, is seeking closure and reconciliation. Fearing this is his last chance to find out more about the father who had no time for him when he was growing up, Everton and his father set out on an adventurous quest across Jamaica, hoping to make up for lost time. t akashic books Garfield Ellis grew up in Jamaica. He is the author of five published books: Flaming Hearts, Wake Rasta, Such As I Have, For Nothing at All, and Till I’m Laid to Rest. His work has appeared in several international journals, including Callaloo, Calabash, the Caribbean Writer, Obsidian III, Anthurium, and Small Axe. Ellis has won the Una Marson Prize for Adult Literature for his collection Flaming Hearts (1997), and later for Till I’m Laid To Rest (2000). He also won the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction in 2000 and 2005, and the 1990 Heinemann/Lifestyle Short Story Competition.

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THE PA I N T RE E The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. Olive Senior navigates the hills and valleys of narrative with natural ease, interweaving thick strands of emotion and insight yet never losing sight of a story’s ebb and flow. Her Pain Tree is an engaging, thought-provoking read that transports readers fully to another place where the unfamiliar and exciting clash and commingle with the universal. t cormorant books Olive Senior is the winner of the first Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1987) for her collection Summer Lightning. Her novel Dancing Lessons (2011) was a finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, a finalist for the 2012 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Senior is also the author of the non-fiction book Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal (2014); the children’s books Anna Carries Water and Birthday Suit; and the collections Discerner of Hearts and Arrival of the Snake Woman.

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You’ll find no odes to Grecian urns here. Instead, treat yourself to impressive anagrams, dialogues written on calculator, retellings of the story of Mary in Jamaican patois, and interrogations of racism in song and sonnet as we shine the spotlight on some of Canada’s best at the verse: Susan Holbrook, Pamela Mordecai, and Vivek Shraya.

THR O AT Y W I P E S In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked, ‘What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.’ Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work?

Does ‘chuffed’ mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations of Adam had mothers?

What do the Disney Princesses eat for breakfast? Through her signature fusion of formal innovation and lyricism, Holbrook delivers what we’ve been waiting for. t coach house books Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House, 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed (Nomados, 2004), and misled (Red Deer, 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award.

She lives in Leamington, Ontario, and teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She is the author of a poetry textbook, Reading (and Writing About) Poetry (Broadview Press, 2015) and co-editor, with Thomas Dilworth, of The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford, 2010).

D E B O O K O F M A RY de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The first book of a trilogy, de book of Mary covers Mary’s life from her early years, through the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel and the birth of Yeshua, to her death. A Chorus of male and female voices provides an accompanying commentary. This exciting Canadian Jamaican retelling, profound and tragic, yet told with humour and gusto, is a major event, continuing Mordecai’s project of hybridizing one of the most significant cultural-religious phenomena in world history. t mawenzi house

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de book of Mary is Pamela Mordecai’s sixth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are Subversive Sonnets, The True Blue of Islands, Certifiable, de man: a performance poem, and Journey Poem. Insomniac Press published her book of short fiction, Pink Icing and Other Stories in 2006 to superb reviews and TAP Books published her first novel, Red Jacket, in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Rogers Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize. Her writing for children is well known internationally. El Numero Uno, a play for young people, had its world premiere at the Theatre for Young People in 2010. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

E V E N T H I S PAGE IS W HIT E Shraya’s debut poetry collection, even this page is white, is a bold, timely and personal interrogation of skin — its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible, and undeniable, intimately acquainting readers with the difficulties of dismantling it. t arsenal pulp press As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya has, over the last few years, established herself as a tour de force artist of the highest order. Vivek’s body of work includes ten albums, four short films, and three books, including the YA book God Loves Hair (A Quill and Quire and Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book of the Year) and the adult novel She of the Mountains (a Lambda Literary Award finalist).

TRADI NG P L A CE S

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Have you ever felt caught in routine? Stuck in a rut? Destined or cursed to a familiar role? In the books featured in Trading Places, protagonists exit their familiar spheres for things new and uncertain, whether it be new occupations, adventures with new people, or doing all the things that terrify you (which are, frankly, many). Join Malcolm Sutton and Melanie Mah as they swap old for new and discover the literary misadventures that ensue.

T H E S W E E T E S T ONE When Chrysler Wong’s three eldest siblings left their small Alberta hometown at the age of eighteen, each one died. Her last remaining and favourite sibling, Trina, ignores the “curse” and also departs, leaving seventeen-year-old Chrysler to pine and anxiously await her own death in a year. Yet despite her family history, Chrysler wants nothing more than to see what’s beyond town limits, to find her sister, to experience love. She’d do it all — only she’s afraid of almost everything. t cormorant books Melanie Mah was born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and currently resides in Toronto. The Sweetest One is her first novel.

J O B S H A D O WING An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic artist at the turning point of her career, falls deeper and deeper into the gravitational field of her ultra-wealthy employer.

Job Shadowing is a novel of our 20th-century desires torn asunder by the new millennium.

Through stylish, searching prose, it tests the grounds of impossible love, generational identity, and middle-class fantasy. t bookthug

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Malcolm Sutton lives in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve and Joyland, and his writing on art has appeared in C Magazine and Border Crossings. He is the Founding Editor of The Coming Envelope journal of innovative prose, and the Fiction Editor at BookThug Press. Job Shadowing is his debut novel.

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GR OW ING UP IS HAR D T O DO

Whether the challenges are surviving parents’ divorce or a parent’s suicide, these new novels from Nadia Bozak and Heather Tucker mine the rich territory of childhood and adolescence to create beautiful depictions of young women who inhabit the late 1960s and 1980s.

THI R T E E N S H E L L S Spanning the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Nadia Bozak’s thirteen stories are narrated from the perspective of Shell, the only child of bohemian artisans determined to live off their handicrafts and uphold a left-wing lifestyle. At the age of five, Shell’s world is transformed when the family moves into a new house, where she grows up. Over time, she gradually trades her unconventional upbringing for junk food, rock music, and boys. All the while, Shell quietly watches her parents’ loveless marriage fall apart and learns to survive divorce, weight gain, heartache, and first love. t house of anansi Nadia Bozak is the critically acclaimed author of the novels El Niño and Orphan Love. She is also the author of The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Cameras, Natural Resources, a work of film theory. She is Assistant Professor of English at Carlton University in Ottawa.

THE CL AY GI RL Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary. Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse. Yet the respite does not last, and Ari is forced back to her twisted mother and fractured sisters. Through the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her father’s legacy and her mother’s addictions, testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness. The Clay Girl is a beautiful tour de force about a child sculpted by kindness, cruelty, and the extraordinary power of imagination, and her families — the one she’s born into and the one she creates. t ecw press Heather Tucker has won many prose and short-story writing competitions, and her stories have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. She lives in Ajax, Ontario.

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U NH A PPY FA M I L I E S

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In the oft-quoted Tolstoy line, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thrill to discover how acclaimed novelists Whittall and Jones have crafted their own little nuclei of misery: an all-American family spirals into crisis mode when the patriarch is arrested for sexual assault in The Best Kind of People, while a video of a Thunder Bay matriarch heading over a waterfall in a barrel goes viral and sends her family spiraling into meltdown in We’re All in This Together.

W E ’ RE A L L I N T HIS T OGE T HE R Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel — a feat captured on a video that goes viral — it’s Kate’s family who tumbles into chaos under the spotlight. Set over the course of four calamitous days, Amy Jones’s big-hearted, bestselling first novel follows the Parkers’ misadventures as catastrophe forces them to do something they never thought possible — act like a family. t penguin random house canada Amy Jones won the 2006 CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the 2005 Bronwen Wallace Award. She is a graduate of the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC, and her fiction has appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, was the winner of the 2008 Metcalf-Rooke Award and a finalist for the 2010 ReLit Award. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Thunder Bay, where she is associate editor of The Walleye.

T H E BE S T K I N D OF PE OPLE From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family. To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is left to pick up the pieces. t house of anansi Zoe Whittall is the author of The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, The Emily Valentine Poems, and Precordial Thump, and the editor of Geeks, Misfits, & Outlaws. Her debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts made the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year and CBC Canada Reads’ Top Ten Essential Novels of the Decade. Her second novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible won a Lambda Literary Award and was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her writing has appeared in The Walrus, the Believer, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Fashion, and more. She has also worked as a writer and story editor on the TV shows Degrassi and Schitt’s Creek. Born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she has an MFA from the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto.

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DE AD GR OUND IN BE T W EEN

It’s late 1942; the war is still raging and the upcoming Christmas season looks bleak.

Detective Inspector Tom Tyler’s job is both to keep the peace and to enforce wartime regulations in small-town Ludlow, Shropshire. Then a troubled old man goes missing in a winter storm. The next day his body is discovered in a secret hideout. It soon becomes clear that a crime has been committed, and there is no shortage of suspects. Showcasing her characteristic masterful storytelling and deep empathy for her characters, Jennings has created another outstanding novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a rich, satisfying reading experience. t penguin random house canada Born in England, Maureen Jennings emigrated to Canada as a teenager. The first Detective Murdoch mystery was published in 1997. Six more followed, all to enthusiastic reviews. The Murdoch Mysteries TV series was created in 2007; it is now shown around the world, including in the UK, the United States, and much of Europe. The Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series, set in World War II-era England, got off to a spectacular start with 2011’s Season of Darkness, followed by Beware This Boy (2012) and No Known Grave (2014). Maureen lives in Toronto with her husband and their two dogs, Varley and Murdoch.

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I’M T HINKING OF E NDING TH I N GS

A woman embarks on a first road trip with her boyfriend, Jake, amidst doubts and questions of commitment. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. In this suspenseful literary debut, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, this novel will haunt you long after the last page is turned. t simon & schuster canada Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed, award-winning books of nonfiction, One Bird’s Choice and The Truth About Luck, which was one of the Globe and Mail’s best books of 2013. Reid’s work has appeared in a variety of publications throughout North America, including The New Yorker, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post. In 2015, he received the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is his first novel.

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T HE JUNGLE SOUT H OF T H E M OUN TAI N

In the rainforest on the northern coast of South America, scientist Stanley has been studying a troop of capuchin monkeys for eight years — seven since his wife left him, and their mentor, Professor Collymore, mysteriously disappeared. As the unnamed country is preparing for a hotly contested election, Stanley finds his research violently threatened: one of his beloved monkeys goes missing, and then another. Something is killing them, one by one. Stanley decides to take matters into his own hands, but soon learns that there are forces in the jungle as difficult to quell as the spirit of rebellion brewing in the south.

Soon, Stanley finds everything he holds dear — his livelihood, his monkeys, his very life — in danger. t harpercollins canada

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Andrew Westoll is an award-winning narrative journalist and internationally published author. A former biologist and primatologist, his books include The Riverbones, a travel memoir set in the jungles of Suriname, and The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, which was a national bestseller and winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. The Jungle South of the Mountain is his first novel.

TH E B OO K O F L E T T E RS I D IDN’T KNOW WHER E TO S E N D

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From the political to the personal, from the philosophical to the mundane, no subject — or target — is off limits. Patterson’s letters, long a staple of his stand-up comedy routine, address a number of recipients, from real people, to groups, to inanimate objects and concepts. He airs grievances, offers support or creates just plain confusion in unplainly humorous prose. He would like men to stop wearing Spandex bike shorts. He would like airlines to stop selling seats they don’t have. He would like gluten to explain itself. He would like his nine-year-old self to know everything will be all right … t goose lane editions The host of CBC Radio’s The Debaters, Steve Patterson is a household name, with more than 700,000 listeners tuning in each week. He has performed at several Just for Laughs televised galas, including one hosted by Steve Martin. Considered to be the highlight of the show by the audience and critics alike, Patterson’s performance prompted the legendary Martin to quip, “If I’d known he was going to be THAT good, I would have cancelled him.” In addition to his stand-up comedy and radio work, Patterson has written for several publications, including the Globe and Mail, Irish Independent, London Free Press, the Toronto Star, and Canadian Living.

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HO S T S Angela Misri is a Toronto author who writes detective fiction inspired by her birth country, Great Britain. The first book in her YA detective series is called Jewel of the Thames and follows her detective Portia Adams through her first three cases as she immigrates from 1930s Toronto to the bustling streets of London. The next two books in the series are called Thrice Burned and No Matter How Improbable. Misri has a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario and has spent most of her career at the CBC in Toronto making CBC Radio extraterrestrial through podcasts, live streams, and websites.

Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and author of the internationally published and award winning children’s novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate, as well as the young adult novels, The Friday Society and Outcast. Earlier this year she released Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the Hatbox, an exciting collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Frank Beddor (set in the same world as his Looking Glass Wars trilogy). Spring 2017 sees the release of the first book in her new middle grade series, The Explorers, which was recently optioned for film by Disney.

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TAKE ME T O Y OUR R E ADER

Outer space. Other worlds. Time travel. Meaghan McIsaac, James Bow, and Kevin Sylvester explore doors to the future, doomed space colonies, and incinerating suns in their latest science-fiction-themed young adult novels.

ICARUS DOWN Three generations after the crash of the colony ship Icarus, Iapyx is barely hanging on: one of thirteen cities suspended halfway down deep chasms. The sun on the diamond lands above will kill a man in less than five minutes. The ticktock monsters in the fog forest below are a little slower — but quite a bit smarter. However, it all suits Simon Daud just fine. Simon likes the rules, and knows his place — in the shadow of his older brother, Isaac. All he wants is to earn his wings as an ornithopter pilot. But on his final test flight, something goes wrong, and Simon’s world will never be the same. t scholastic canada James Bow is the author of three fantasy novels and several science books for young readers. He works as a consulting writer and editor and writes a weekly column for the Kitchener Post community newspaper. James lives with his wife, author Erin Bow, and their two children in Kitchener, Ontario. Visit him online at www.bowjamesbow.com.

M OV E RS For most people, the future is an unknown. But not to Movers like Pat. Movers are born with a mental connection to their Shadows: strangers living years in the future. Some Movers can even bring their Shadows through time to the present, an action that is strictly prohibited. When a ruthless Shadow arrives intent on changing the present at any cost, Pat and his little sister are caught in the crossfire. They are in a race against time, and Pat has to turn to some unlikely sources for help. But will it be too late? t penguin random house canada

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Meaghan McIsaac grew up in Canada. A sci-fi/fantasy nerd, she packed up all her movies and books, and shipped off to the UK to complete an MA in writing for children. Meaghan eventually returned to Canada broke and worked at a series of unpaid internships at publishing houses, magazines, and gossip rags. Through it all, she was writing stories in the office, on the subway and on her lunch breaks. She is now the proud author of Urgle, Underhand and The Boys of Fire, and Ash. Meaghan currently lives in Toronto.

M I N RS 2 They are coming to get you. Hide. Hide. Hide. The children of Perses have been receiving this message on repeat, from Earth, for weeks. Christopher, Elena, and the other survivors of the attack on their space colony know two things: their victory over the Landers will be short-lived and a new wave of attacks is imminent. New Landers arrive sooner than expected. Led by the ruthless Kirk Thatcher, and armed with a new lethal kind of digger, they vow to hunt down and destroy everyone. Will Christopher be able to successfully lead the group back to Earth? Or will Thatcher make sure no one survives? t simon & schuster canada Kevin Sylvester is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and broadcaster. His books include MiNRS, MiNRS 2, the Neil Flambé series, Gold Medal for Weird, and Sports Hall of Weird. He lives in Toronto.

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In the original Seven series (published in 2013), David McLean, grandfather and adventurer, left behind an unusual will that outlined seven tasks for his seven grandsons. The grandsons return with their daredevil grandfather this fall, as the Seven Prequels hit bookstores and libraries. Three of the authors — Richard Scrimger, Norah McClintock, and Ted Staunton — read from the McLean clan’s adventures.

SLIDE When Rennie’s dad, the Major, goes overseas on assignment, he enlists his mother-inlaw to babysit Rennie. Babysit! A guy who’s about to turn fifteen! But Grandma is no surrogate drill sergeant. She has fun on her mind. That means ditching school and heading to avalanche country for a surprise ski trip. In this hair-raising prequel to Close to the Heel and From the Dead, the loyal, smart, and observant Rennie heads to avalanche country. t orca book publishers Norah McClintock is a five-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction for young people. She is the author of more than sixty YA novels, including books in Seven (the series), the Seven Sequels, and the Secrets series. Norah lives in Toronto. For more information, visit www.norahmcclintock.com.

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Bunny is on a camping trip with his brother and his grandpa. How much trouble can he get into? As it turns out, a lot. For one thing, there are soldiers all over the place. Canada is about to go to war with the United States. Bunny is worried. An American soldier steals his brother Spencer’s cell phone and Bunny decides to track down the phone himself.

Maybe they can get out of there before the war starts. In this zany prequel to Ink Me and The Wolf and Me, Bunny goes camping with his brother and his grandpa. t orca book publishers

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Richard Scrimger is the award-winning author of twenty books for children and adults, and has written for television and print media. His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages. His first children’s novel, The Nose from Jupiter, won the 10th Annual Mr. Christie’s Book Award. His novel From Charlie’s Point of View was a CLA Honor Book and was chosen as one of the “Best of the Best” by the Chicago Public Library. The father of four children, Richard is used to being confused, misunderstood, and laughed at. He lives in Toronto. For more information, visit www.scrimger.ca S PEED How can you liven up a boring camping trip with your grandpa and your younger brother? Spencer has the answer: lose the new cell phone you weren’t supposed to bring with you. Add a War of 1812 reenactment, a student film crew, an old flame of Grandpa’s, and Laura Secord’s cowbell, and you get a weekend that gives Spencer his first taste of independence and maybe a glimpse of his future, by way of the past. In this funny prequel to Jump Cut and Coda, the goofy and creative Spencer gets caught up in a War of 1812 reenactment. t orca book publishers Ted Staunton is the prize-winning author of many books for young people, from longtime picture book favorite Puddleman, to young adult novels, including Who I’m Not. Over the years he’s also performed and led workshops everywhere from Inuvik to Addis Ababa.

When not writing stories, Ted writes music and plays in the Maple Leaf Champions Jug Band. Born very young, Ted is now older and lives with his family in Port Hope, Ontario.

For more information, visit www.tedstauntonbooks.com.

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T HINKING DIFFE R E NT

A back-up high school football punter with obsessive-compulsive disorder is given a mystery to solve. A budding rock musician with Asperger syndrome seeks help from his reclusive rock legend neighbour. In new novels for young readers by Wesley King and M.E. Reid, feeling and being different is just part of a teenaged life full of grand adventures and rock star ambitions.

OC D A N I E L OCDaniel is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who is struggling with OCD. Daniel spends most of his time hoping no one notices his strange habits, such as flipping a light switch on and off dozens of times over. Author Wesley King, who hid his OCD until his late twenties, has crafted a smart, complex, and relatable character who greatly mirrors himself at that age. The heart of this story is in feeling different and finding those who understand. t simon & schuster canada Wesley King is the author of several previous books, including The Forest of Reading’s 2013 Red Maple award winner, The Vindico. He was also nominated for The Forest of Reading’s 2016 Silver Birch award for his first middle grade novel, The Incredible Space Raiders from Space! Wesley does many school visits and is beloved by students, teachers, and librarians for his fun, informative, and interactive presentations. He lives with his wife in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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T H E T U RI N G M ACHINIST S Seventeen-year-old Del has managed his Asperger’s well, has a solid group of friends, and even manages to get by among people who don’t understand his brand of communication. But his world falls apart when his parents split up. Del is certain he can save his family by living out his father’s dream of musical stardom, so with some of his friends, he forms The Turing Machinists, an all-Asperger’s rock band. But they’ll need help — and Del seeks that help in the form of his neighbour, a reclusive rock legend who would rather have nothing to do with the music scene. t dancing cat books Born in Chatham, New Brunswick, M.E. Reid has lived in Cold Lake, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Petawawa, Ontario; and West Germany. She currently lives in Kitchener, Ontario, and is the mother of two children with autism (one with Asperger’s). The Turing Machinists is her first book for young adults.

IN S PI R E TEE N RE A D S - RO UND 1

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Inspire Teen Reads is an entirely youth-led initiative that challenges young individuals between the ages of 13 and 18 to speak about their favourite book, and convince a panel of authors and editors of its merit, through five minute prose, poetry, or spoken word pitches.

The event aims to foster a love of literature amongst youth, through an appreciation of what a piece of literature can mean to an individual.

In this round, a select group of ten teenagers will perform their shortlisted submissions to a jury of publishing industry experts, including representatives from Penguin Random House Canada, HarperCollins Canada, and The Rights Factory. They will compete to proceed to Round 2, where they will pitch in front of a group of authors, with the chance to win it all!

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No one likes to have a reputation. Whether she’s the girl who used to live in a Bolivian Mennonite town, the girl whose mother abandoned her, or the girl who offers to help the boys lose their virignities, the heroines of these novels face a future full of uncertainties, both terrifying and hopeful.

F I RS T S Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time — the kind Mercedes never had herself. When Mercedes’ perfect system falls apart, she has to salvage her own reputation and figure out where her heart really belongs in the process. Funny, smart, and true-to-life, Firsts is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel about growing up. t raincoast books Laurie Elizabeth Flynn went to school for journalism and later worked as a model, a job that took her overseas to Tokyo, Athens, and Paris. She lives in London, Ontario, with her husband and her Chihuahua. Flynn enjoys writing contemporary fiction and is currently working on an Firsts is her first novel but she is currently working on another book of contemporary fiction.

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ONC E I N A T O W N C ALLE D MOT H Ana grew up in a tiny Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Her mother fled the colony when Ana was a young girl. Now Ana and her father have also fled, and Ana doesn’t know why.

Arriving in Toronto, Ana has to fend for herself, completely isolated in a big city with no help and no idea where to even begin. But begin she does: she makes a friend, then two.

She goes to school and tries to understand the myriad unspoken codes and rules. And all the while, she searches for the mother who left so long ago, and tries to understand her father — who has secrets of his own. t penguin random house canada Trilby Kent was born in Toronto, but grew up in cities on both sides of the Atlantic.

After completing degrees at Oxford University and The London School of Economics, she worked in the rare books department at a prominent auction house before turning to journalism and finally writing with her first book, the critically acclaimed Medina Hill.

Her most recent book, Stones for My Father, won the TD Children’s Literature Award.

After years living in England, she now resides in Toronto with her family.

WATC H I N G T RA F F I C Watching Traffic is a stunning debut novel about that uncertain summer after high school graduation. Emily has finally finished high school in the small town where she has lived her whole life. At last, she thinks, her adult life can begin. But what if you have no idea what you want your new life to look like? What then? t groundwood books

Jane Ozkowski has a BA in English and Creative Writing from York University. She works in the office at a motorcycle driving school, and although she does not have a motorcycle, she does have her license in case she needs to make a quick getaway. Watching Traffic is her first novel.

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OR DINARY T E E NS, E X T R AORDI N ARY STORI ES

A boy stumbles into an upside-down dimension where his departed dog lives again. A girl discovers her Cayuga heritage when a strange mask begins to sing to her. Magical elements suddenly transform kids’ less-than-perfect lives by revealing new worlds within Richard Scrimger and Susan Currie’s new novels for young readers.

THE M A S K T H AT S A N G The discovery of an Iroquois mask sets off a chain of events that will change Cass’s life forever — Cass and her mom have always stood on their own against the world. Then Cass learns she had a grandmother who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own. But the house brings more questions than answers: Why is her Mom determined not to live there? Why did they never know her grandmother?

And what is the unusual mask, forgotten in a drawer, trying to tell her? Strange dreams, strange voices, and strange incidents all lead Cass closer to solving the mystery. t second story press Susan Currie is a winner of Second Story Press’ Aboriginal Writing Contest, resulting in this, her second book. Her first book was Basket of Beethoven, a finalist for the CLA Book of the Year for Children, MYRCA, and Silver Birch Awards. She has an MA in children’s literature and has been an elementary teacher for 17 years. Susan is an adopted person who later learned about her Cayuga heritage, an experience that inspired The Mask That Sang. She lives in Brampton, Ontario.

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D O W N S I D E UP Fred is reeling from the loss of his beloved dog, Casey. Every day he walks home from school bouncing Casey’s old worn-out tennis ball. One day, the ball falls down a sewer grate, and Fred can’t bear to leave it down there. He pries open the grate and stumbles down. Through the sewer, Fred enters a parallel universe: Casey is alive, his mom and sister are happier, and there’s a version of Fred who’s happier too. Spending time with Casey, Fred feels joy for the first time since his dog’s death, but he slowly realizes that the loss of Casey is masking an even greater loss…Can everything that is lost be found again? t penguin random house canada Richard Scrimger is the award-winning author of twenty books for children and adults, and has written for television and print media. His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages. His first children’s novel, The Nose from Jupiter, won the 10th Annual Mr. Christie’s Book Award. His novel From Charlie’s Point of View was a CLA Honor Book and was chosen as one of the “Best of the Best” by the Chicago Public Library. The father of four children, Richard is used to being confused, misunderstood, and laughed at. He lives in Toronto. For more information, visit www.scrimger.ca IN S PI R E TEE N RE A D S - RO UND 2

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Inspire Teen Reads is an entirely youth-led initiative that challenges young individuals between the ages of 13 and 18 to speak about their favourite book, and convince a panel of authors and editors of its merit, through five minute prose, poetry, or spoken word pitches.

The event aims to foster a love of literature amongst youth, through an appreciation of what a piece of literature can mean to an individual.

Featuring the top three selected pitches, the remaining young competitors will have the chance to speak about their favourite book in front of a group of acclaimed authors, including Kenneth Oppel, Norah McClintock, and Wesley King. The audience will also have a chance to weigh in and pick their favourite pitch of the day!

In The Nearly Girl, the only crazy thing in this world is trying to be normal. Good Girls is a coming-of-age story about a rule-follower and a rule-breaker.

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Text and image collide in the madcap satire Fabulous Fictions, while boob-tube blockbusters and poetic darlings take fire in Strike Anywhere.

Baseball essays and short stories that go together like a ball and glove. Be sure to catch Andrew Forbes reading today!

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Don’t miss Peter Kirby, winner of the Arthur Ellis 2016 Award for Best Novel for Open Season, on “Mystery Aboard the Kajama,” Sunday, 2:45 PM.

It’s not easy being red in Redheaded Stepchild. The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in Black Dog, a darkly comic story of four teenagers.

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Introducing the first two (quirky) titles from QC Fiction, a new imprint of Quebec fiction in translation.

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F E AT U RI N G T HE HUMBE R SCHOOL FOR W R ITERS Come hear informative talks about creative writing and publishing for aspiring and experienced writers, presented by the Humber School for Writers, whose alumni have gone on to publish over 1,000 books in the last twenty-five years.

HOSTS Antanas Sileika has published four books of fiction and is the director of the Humber School for Writers. His comic memoir, The Barefoot Bingo Caller, will appear in spring of 2017.

Kim Moritsugu is a member of the Humber School for Writers faculty and the author of six books of fiction, including her most recent novel, The Oakdale Dinner Club.

W HAT LI TER A RY A GE N T S AR E LOOKING FOR

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It seems difficult to secure representation from a literary agent, but some agents are actively looking for manuscripts that they can sell. Come to this session and find out what tweaks the interest of two agents.

Carolyn Forde of Westwood Creative Artists is both an agent with her own list of authors, and WCA’s International Rights Director. Carolyn travels to Frankfurt, London, and New York to meet publishers and to further the interests of Westwood authors. She reads widely and eclectically and represents books she loves from across a wide range of categories.

Olga Filina is a graduate of Humber’s Creative Book Publishing Program. Before joining literary agency The Rights Factory in 2013, she worked as a sales manager and book buyer for national and independent bookstore chains and as a literary assistant at The Cooke Agency. Olga sits on library boards, organizes literary festivals, and runs several book clubs.

MY R ELATI O N S H I P H U RT S : LOVE AND FE EL I NG S I N L I T E RAT U RE

1 2 :0 0PM – 12:45 PM

Why is love so hard to write about? What is the right balance to hit between sentiment and sentimentality? Two authors whose latest novels deal at least partially with love and relationships talk about how to approach the subject in fiction.

Trevor Cole is an award-winning journalist and novelist. His third novel, Practical Jean, was nominated for the Rogers’ Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and won the Leacock Medal for Humour. His latest novel, Hope Makes Love, is published by Cormorant Books.

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Kim Echlin is a writer, journalist and educator who has written seven books and been short-listed for the Giller prize. Her most recent novel, Under The Visible Life, tells the story of two very different women who love music and who find their love lives bring rewards and complications.

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Y OU MUST R E ME MBE R T H I S: WRI TI N G M EM OI RS

Some recent memoirs have been remarkably frank. What’s it like to tell all, especially if what you have to tell is painful? Learn how to achieve the right distance when writing non-fiction about material that is close to you.

Celebrated author Craig Davidson, also known as Nick Cutter in his genre writing, has written a memoir called Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 about his experiences driving special needs kids in Calgary.

Cathie Borrie’s The Long Hello, Memory, My Mother and Me, a memoir about caring for a mother with dementia, was first self-published, then traditionally published in Canada and the USA in 2016. She lives in North Vancouver.

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OVE R COMING T HE ODDS: L ON G JOURN EYS TO PUBLICAT ION

Getting published is quite a struggle for aspiring writers. At this session, learn from three Humber School for Writers alumni who have burst out with a bang. Ann Y K Choi and Mona Awad have both published books for the first time and Shari Lapeña has sold her third book in over twenty territories.

Mona Awad’s first book of fiction, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, has received rave reviews here and abroad. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English literature at the University of Denver.

Ann Y. K. Choi’s novel Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety is a haunting comingof-age story told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl. It vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s.

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Shari Lapeña is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers who has published two books of fiction. Her most recent novel, The Couple Next Door, has burst onto the scene as a major international multiple sale.

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3 :0 0 P M – 3:45 PM

How do poets write and how do they fit their writing lives into their everyday lives?

Kitty Lewis, the longtime general manager of the poetry house Brick Books, will answer these questions with the help of two published poets.

Kitty Lewis is the general manager of Brick Books, the only press in Canada that specializes in publishing poetry books.

Carolyn Smart has written six previous collections of poetry, including The Way to Come Home (Brick Books, 1993) and Hooked: Seven Poems (Brick Books, 2009). Her memoir At the End of the Day (Penumbra Press, 2001) won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. Smart is an editor for the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Moez Surani is a poet, reviewer, and short fiction author. His writing has been included in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including The Literary Review of Canada and The Walrus. His writing has won the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Kingston Literary Award, and the Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest.

FIR S T I MPRE S S I O N S : M A NUSCR IPT E VALU ATI O N S

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Would an editor turn to page two of your manuscript based on page one? How would a creative writing instructor advise you to improve it? Drop off a hard copy of your first page outside the Wordshop Marquee stage before 3 PM for a chance to be assessed during this session. Prose only, please, labeled with your email address, and the work’s genre. Pages not read due to time limitations will be responded to later by email.

Dominic Farrell has worked for many years as an editor — as a freelancer with authors from such presses as Pearson Education, Cormorant, and Blue Butterfly, and in-house.

Dominic currently works as a developmental editor with Dundurn Press in Toronto.

Kim Moritsugu, a member of the Humber School for Writers faculty, is the author of six books of fiction. Her most recent novel is The Oakdale Dinner Club.

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HOW T O GE T PUBLISHE D

Why are agents and publishers so hard to reach and why is it so hard to publish a book?

Once you have the manuscript you have slaved over, how are you going to get it out there?

Is self-publishing a solution? To answer these and other publishing questions, join our publishing pro for tips.

A former president and publisher of Penguin Books, Cynthia Good, also former Director of the Humber Creative Book Publishing Program, has worked in publishing for over twenty-five years and published such writers as John Ralston Saul, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Adams, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, Stuart McLean, Peter Robinson, Guy Gavriel Kay, and many others.

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HOST Karon Liu is the Toronto Star’s resident food writer and recipe tester, which means his job is to make sure a recipe is accurate before it gets published whether it’s from a chef or a new cookbook. Before joining the Star, he was the staff food writer at The Grid and has contributed to publications like Sharp, NOW Magazine, the Globe and Mail, VICE’s Munchies and House & Home. His go-to cookbooks are The Joy of Cooking, Martha Stewart’s Every Day Food: Great Food Fast, and Guy Gourmet. For the record, his name is pronounced Kar-on.

TA S TE O F P E RS I A : A C O O K’S T R AVE LS T HR OU G H A RM E N I A , A Z E R BAIJAN, GE OR GIA, IR A N, A ND K U RD I S TA N

1 1 :3 0AM – 12:30PM

Persia. The very name evokes magic and mystery. And the food — extraordinary flavours and ingredients, from ripe red pomegranates and breads, pilafs, and crisp vegetables, bowls of chopped aromatic herbs, and exotic sweets like rose water pudding and date-nut halvah. Who better to serve as our ambassador to this enchanting region than the incomparable Naomi Duguid, who for more than 20 years has been bringing us exceptional recipes and mesmerizing tales from regions seemingly beyond our reach? Taste of Persia is an adventure of discovery — rich with history and variety, and a wealth of culinary traditions and innovations. t thomas allen publishers Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, teacher, cook, and world traveler. Her most recent cookbook, Bruma, won the 2013 IACP Cookbook Award for Culinary Travel and the Taste Canada Food Writing Award. She is also the co-author (with Jeffrey Alford) of several award-winning titles, including Flatbreads & Flavors, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Mangoes & curry Leaves, and Beyond the Great Wall. Her articles and photographs appear regularly in Lucky Peach, Food & Wine, and other publications. She is the host of TIFF’s “Food on Film” series. When not on the road, she lives in Toronto.

T HE PR A I R I E GI RL CU P C A KE COOKBOOK

1 2 :4 5 PM – 1:45 PM

With more than 50 recipes for any and every cupcake occasion, as well as the secrets for the most decadent, delicious cupcakes imaginable, cupcake lovers and bakers everywhere will fall in love with this beautiful, easy-to-use book from the famous Prairie Girl Bakery.

Known for having the best cupcakes in Toronto, Prairie Girl Bakery takes fans and readers behind its kitchen doors to share recipes, tips and techniques in the pages of this musthave book. Whether you’re looking for classic, gluten-free or vegan recipes, The Prairie Girl Cupcake Cookbook has everything you need to treat yourself and your loved ones, one cupcake at a time. t penguin random house canada Jean Blacklock is the owner of Prairie Girl Bakery. She grew up in Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with degrees in commerce and law. In 2011, after an esteemed career in law and wealth management, Jean decided to pursue her true passion — cupcakes — and Prairie Girl Bakery was born. The bakery now has multiple locations in downtown Toronto and specializes in cupcakes and assorted baked goods. This is Jean’s first cookbook.

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PUR E LY PUMPKIN: MOR E TH AN 100 SE ASONAL R E CIPE S T O SH ARE, SAVOR, AND WAR M Y OUR KIT CHEN

Purely Pumpkin brings the cozy warmth of pumpkin into our homes with seasonal, whole foods recipes, and earthy food photography. With savory and sweet recipes for all meals of the day, it’s the cookbook your home shouldn’t be without during the fall and winter months. Homemade pumpkin spice latte variations along with wholesome meals ideal for the everyday and the holidays are tucked into this plentiful pumpkin volume. Utilizing pumpkin flesh, pumpkin puree, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin spice, pumpkin seed oil, and heirloom pumpkins, there’s something for every craving, festivity, time constraint, and cooking level. t skyhorse publishing Allison Day is the creator of the popular food blog, Yummy Beet — winner of a 2015 Taste Canada Food Writing Award; cookbook author and photographer of Whole Bowls: Complete Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Meals to Power Your Day; and a nutritionist. She has contributed to various food, health, and news publications such as the New York Times, Preventions, and The Kitchn. Growing up in the countryside surrounded by fields of fresh produce inspired her love of seasonal, vegetable-focused cooking. She lives in Hamilton.

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R USH HOUR ME ALS

Family cooking is about three essential things: nutrition, taste, and getting your food on the table! Rose Reisman is a master of simple, delicious family cooking, and Rush Hour Meals skimps on nothing, demonstrating how absolutely anyone can make great tasting, healthy meals for their whole family, all in 30 minutes or less! With expert health advice and tips for keeping children (and fussy eaters) happy, Rush Hour Meals contains 112 fantastic recipes your family will love. Rose Reisman is one of the best known and most highly regarded cookbook authors in Canada, and in Rush Hour Meals she proves there’s no need to cut corners when you’re preparing food for your family. t whitecap books Rose Reisman is a leading authority on the art of eating and living well. She’s a motivational speaker, columnist, and TV personality, with over 18 cookbooks published.

Dedicated to improving the eating habits of families, she is the owner of Rose Reisman Catering and Personal Gourmet as well as a restaurant consultant at the Pickle Barrel chain and Glow Fresh Grill and Wine Bar in Toronto. Rose lives in Toronto.

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Discover seven different ways to preserve “from nose to tail” in this beautiful and informative guide from superstar bloggers Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison. In Batch, Joel and Dana showcase seven different preserving techniques — canning, pressure canning, dehydrating, fermenting, cellaring, curing and infusing — and then take readers on a trip to the market in twenty-five ingredients. From spring asparagus to summer peaches, blueberries, and raspberries; hearty beans, cabbage, and chilies in fall and winter to a variety of meat and fish, Batch teaches you everything you need to know to get the most out of your ingredients and your kitchen. t penguin random house canada Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison created WellPreserved.ca in 2008. The site has more than 1,800 articles and 700 recipes on preserving, local food, small farming, food security, sustainability, food politics, hunting, and more. Batch is their first cookbook.

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1 1 :1 5AM – 12:00PM

Actor and producer Matt Drappel will give a fun, interactive presentation explaining different ways people read: by book, magazine or newspaper; tablet or phone; headphones or speakers; Braille. The presentation will illustrate and engage the audience in the various methods of reading and why certain methods work best for some, but not for others. The audience will participate in demonstrations including audio-book recording and Braille printing; children in the audience will have the opportunity to have their names printed on cards in Braille, will have the chance to record using PAL’s audiobook-specific software, and then hear themselves on replay.

Actor and theatre manager Matt Drappel is the founding director of Atlas Stage Productions Canada, and a television sports broadcaster and producer, winning the coveted Gillette Drafted Season 4: The Score Television Network’s annual show searching for Canada’s next On-Air personality for Rogers Sportsnet (The Score). Matt was the executive producer and host of the late-night comedy show, Late Night with Matty D from 2010 to 2012. Currently he is a Senior Broadcast Associate at Rogers Sportsnet and performs regularly in Classical Theatre Project’s production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged.”

FRO NTI ER C O L L E GE | L E A RN T O PLAY AND P LAY TO LE A RN !

1 2 :1 5PM – 1:00PM

We believe in developing quality learning opportunities that help to motivate the next generation of readers and leaders. Join Frontier College in the classic games Twister and Bingo, but with a fun and educational twist! Each visitor will receive a free new children’s book.

F L A S H M AT H Using flashcards, visitors will try and fill in the missing piece of the math equation as quickly as possible using basic math skills.

V O W E L T W I S TE R Open to all ages, visitors will move around on the Twister mat as they develop literacy skills. Start the game on the “right foot” and be the last player standing to win!

ON B I D A | RE A D I N G D I F F I C ULT IE S: AR E T HE Y ALL THE S A M E ? H O W CA N I HE LP?

1 :1 5PM – 2:00PM

Participants attending this workshop will learn about the various challenges children may face as they learn to read. Consequently, the presentation will discuss why early identification is key, how to identify red flags, and how to intervene. All participants will receive an information package. Join ONBIDA at the Learning Tent to learn more about dyslexia in Ontario. Bring your child and make a “word house” to practice decoding words in a fun and crafty way! Our slightly-used-book give away will be back as well. Early reading tips and strategies will be available for teachers.

Jana Leggett, MHSc., SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist with extensive experience in intervention of oral language, reading, and writing difficulties. She is the past president of the Ontario Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.

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See storytelling like never before. Meet renowned Deaf storytellers who bring American Sign Language (ASL), Deaf culture and Deaf heritage to the stage introducing you to rhymes and rhythms, personification, poetry, rap, and storytelling like no other, told in rich and beautiful ASL, celebrating the language and experience of Deaf Canadians. Be moved and inspired by these talented artists.

Gord DaDalt is an experienced ASL performer — a comedian and a true entertainer. He works as an arborist with the City of Toronto, and enjoys educating children about his work with trees. Gordon also performs often with his wife Susan, contributing to Susan’s ASL rap/drumming performances.

Delia Avarell has been an ASL Consultant for the Infant Hearing Program, through the Ministry of Child and Youth Services, for the past ten years. She also works as an ASL instructor for hearing students, and as an educational assistant for Deaf students. She has shared ASL stories at Ontario Early Years Centers, Mayfest, the ASL Family Festival, and much more. Delia has two hearing children who are the son and daughter of Deaf parents.

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ST ORY PLANE T | CHAR AC TERM AK ER WORK SH OP

With an energetic writer and illustrator, kids imagine and create amazing characters and build unique story ideas around them. Using our outlined Character Shapes as a jump off point, kids come up with the character’s look and personality. As the ideas evolve, so does the plotline — the character has a passion for jellybeans but can’t find their favourite pink ones, they have a fear of bubbles and someone just blew a whole bunch! As the kids describe everything, our illustrator brings it to life visually. Each child walks away with a booklet, allowing them to keep adding to the story we all started together.

Josh Rosen is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Toronto. He has experience providing comics and illustration work for a variety of clients, in addition to self-published work and personal projects.

Aaron Feldman is a writer and longtime sci-fi enthusiast. When he’s not working with the kids of Story Planet, he loves to write short fiction, screenplays, comedy sketches, articles, and — above all else — comic books! He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor and is thrilled to be working for Story Planet!

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VALLUM | BLACKOUT POETRY WORK SH OP

Write a poem with “Newspaper + marker = blackout poetry.” Participants will use markers to cross out words on sheets of newspaper. The words left over become the poem. This activity illustrates James Tate’s remark: “Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.” A variety of age appropriate texts will be provided.

Greg Santos is the author of two full-length books and two chapbooks. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Geist, McSweeney’s, and more. Santos teaches creative writing to at-risk youth and students of all ages. He is the poetry editor for carte blanche and lives in Montreal with his family.

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CAT E GO RI E S Arts / Writers Organization: An organization that promotes arts other than the literary arts, or independent authors and groups whose members are primarily literary artists.

Book Publisher / Distributor: Organizations that publish or distribute books or eBooks.

Bookseller: Retailers that primarily sell books and magazines.

Independent Authors: Individuals who have self-published and distribute their own titles.

Literacy Organizations: Organizations that are involved in and support literacy.

Magazine Publisher / Distributor: Organizations that publish or distribute magazines or online magazines.

Other: Associations, Libraries, Educational Institutions, and Multi-Media Organizations.

A RT S / W RI T E R S O RGA N I Z AT I O NS Canadian Bookbinders + Book Artists Guild WB 14 CANSCAIP WB 2 Crime Writers of Canada 541 Editors’ Association of Canada WB 5 Festival of Literary Diversity WB 3 Firefly Creative Writing WB 16 First Book Canada 329 Goethe-Institut Toronto 336 Historica Canada KS 106 Horror Writers Association WB 7 Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema 432 IFOA 111 L’Écriture en Mouvement WB 8 League of Canadian Poets WB 13 Medieval Times 641 Mesdames of Mayhem WB 12 Mirvish Productions 134 PEN Canada 122 Science Fiction Writers WB 6 Shen Yun Performing Arts 127 Sisters in Crime: Toronto Chapter WB 11 Small Print TO KS 42 The Book and Periodical Council WB 1 The Japan Foundation, Toronto 433 The Writers’ Union of Canada WB 4 Theatre Passe Muraille 333 Toronto Romance Writers WB 10 Toronto Writers Collective WB 13 Tzu Chi Foundation 425 Writers and Editors Network WB 15 BO O K P U B L I SHE R S / D I S T RI BU T O RS 11th Dimension Press 526 AllLitUp.ca 434 Amnesty International 121

Annick Press KS 3 Author Solutions 100 Baseline Press FB 4 Between the Lines Press 327 Biblioasis 326 Big Pond Rumours Press FB 8 Bookaroo 405 Books — India Books FB 16 BookThug 335 Brick Books 416 Brunswick Books 325 Buddha’s Light Publishing 427 Chapterhouse Comics 640 ChiZine Publications 646 Coach House Books 215 Collectfreequran.org 237 Comic Book Embassy FB 12 Cormorant Books 233 Drawn & Quarterly 318 Dundurn Press 332 ECW Press 314 FanReads 338 Fitzhenry & Whiteside KS 33 Gideons International 534 Groundwood Books 316 Harlequin 412 HarperCollins Canada 429 Homeroom 428 House of Anansi Press 217 Inanna Publications 328 Infant & Child Development Lab KS 66 Invisible Publishing 408 James Lorimer & Company 309 Jehovah’s Witnesses / jw.org 532 Joe Books 644 Kabbalah Books Publishing 235 Kersplebedeb / Leftwingbooks.net 324 Mirror World Publishing FB 13 Owlkids KS 60

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Pajama Press KS 32 Palimpsest Press 418 Penguin Random House Canada 317, KS 11 Playwrights Canada Press 125 PM Press 338 Publisher Production Solutions 133 Quattro Books 231 Red T Media KS 117 Runley Productions KS 57 Scholastic Canada KS 2 Second Story Press KS 23 Sideroad Guidebooks FB 6 Simon & Schuster Canada 337 Sure Print & Design 142 Tabulit 239 Tharpa Publications 229 The Porcupine’s Quill 155 The Portal Prophecies 647 Tightrope Books 524 Together Tales KS 34 Toronto Hakka Heritage Alliance 151 Toucan Publishing Inc. FB 14 Wolsak and Wynn Publishers 416 B O OKS E L L E RS Bakka Phoenix 642 BMV Books 413 Books for Less 108 Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore KS 30 Glad Day Bookshop 409 Mabel’s Fables KS 1 TheBookLady.ca KS 35 Toronto Veg Bookstore 150 I NDEP E N D E N T A U T H O R S $5 – 30 Cycling Maps to Wineries FB 11 27th Letters 152 A Radioactive Dump – An Account FB 3 Akin Collective FB 4 Alexander Arts FB 16 Allison Cosgrove 135 Art and Soul Interiors FB 5 As the Fog Clears – J. Roberson 133 Buddha Meditation Center 414 Cabbage Boy! KS 65 Caerwent Housestories FB 7 Cemetery Photographs & Flipbooks FB 11 CGhirardo FB 9 Cheryl Edwards FB 10 Clair McIntyre 645

Conversations for Two 414 Dream Moments 510 Dumagrad Books FB 18 Eyes for Her – Suspense Novel 135 George Alexander Anthony FB 1 Hey Guy Buy Me 153 Hogtown Horror 643 Hope Nicholson FB 3 I Am Who I Am KS 50 I Like Me – EAW Publications FB 19 Jason Shannon 154 John Moss Mysteries FB 1 Khadijah Goes to School – A Story about You KS 62 Kobo Writing Life 124 Koyama Press 543 Latitude 46 Publishing 239 Lee Bice-Matheson, J.R. Matheson 144 Legacy of Krazatan – Book One 543 Lesley Donaldson 742 Love to Be Publications KS 67 Love’s Peaks and Valleys 526 Magenta FB 10 Offtheteebooks.com FB 14 Path of Lucas 547 Penny L. Samms 331 Poison Apple Book Factory FB 9 Rebecca Diem FB 8 Renaissance FB 2 Robert Small 534 Sabine Wilder 547 Scribbles & Rhymes KS 10 Sevensmith FB 18 Sheri-Lynn Kenny Books KS 10 Single and Hating It FB 20 Sydneythewriter.com KS 51 Ten Decades in the Life of My Dad 331 The Girl from Mena Creek 237 The Kidonomics Series (TKS) KS 52 The Time Travellers Club KS 63 The Wizard of Kharathad 144 Toronto Comics Anthology 647 Vanessa Stefaniuk 742 Vicki Delany Mystery & Suspense 545 Violet Malan Fantasy 545 Weald and Friendship Edition 411

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L I T E RA CY O RG ANIZAT IONS Applied Scholastics Canada LL 11 Book Club for Inmates LL 1 Books with No Bounds LL 7 Essential Skills Upgrading LL 8 Frontier College LL 10 IBBY Canada LL 20 Kids’ Lit Quiz Canada LL 2 Le College du Savoir LL 4 Machik Canada LL 18 Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy LL 6 ONBIDA – Itl. Dyslexia Association KS 64 Ontario Cultural Society of the Deaf and Silent Voice LL 19 PAL – Reading Services LL 17 Readup Reading Clubs LL 13 Spelling Bee of Canada LL 15 Story Planet LL 16 The Children’s Book Bank KS 34 The Story Garden LL 14 TPL Adult Literacy Program LL 3 Vallum: Contemporary Poetry LL 12 West End Adult Literacy Programs LL 2 World Literacy Canada LL 9 M A GA Z I N E P UBLISHE R S / D I S T RI B U T O RS A\J – Alternatives Journal 225 Brainspace Magazine 410, KS 54 Brick, A Literary Journal 334 Broken Pencil Magazine MM 7 Canada’s History 315 Carousel MM 10 Cinema Scope Magazine 410 CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries 326 DailyXtra 411 Eco Parent Magazine 324 Feathertale MM 3 Green Teacher 227 Inuit Art Quarterly MM 10 Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids KS 53 Magazines Canada Newsstand 211 NOW Magazine 311 Ontario Nature MM 8 Quill & Quire MM 5 Room Magazine MM 9 SGI Canada 510 Shameless Magazine MM 6

Spacing Magazine 221 Taddle Creek MM 4 The Epoch Times 508 The Message MM 1 The New Quarterly 334 The Socialist Party of Canada MM 1 The Walrus Magazine 312 This Magazine 408 Toronto Life Magazine 213 Toronto Star 160 Voice K Magazine KS 56 White Wall Review MM 2 Zipe FB 15 Zoomer Magazine 313 OT HE R Ad Astra SF Society 643 Biology of Story 115 Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Org. (ON) FB 17 Centauri Arts Academy 122 Centennial College 436 DDM Toronto Centre 330 Groupe Mèdia TFO KS 15 Ministry of Education KS 22 MuseX3 KS 106 Ontario College of Teachers 407 Ontario Teachers Federation KS 20 Sago Mini KS 40 The Book Seat 438 The Humber School for Writers 113 Toronto Public Library 219 Toronto Public Library Workers 435 York University Writing Dept. 136

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C A NA D A’ S H I S T O RY Canada’s History features entertaining and insightful stories that celebrate Canada’s remarkable past. Boldly designed, each issue is a treasure waiting to be discovered — a mix of engaging features, columns, reviews, and commentary, plus historic photos, maps, and illustrations.

C O A CH H O U S E B O O KS Tucked away on Toronto’s bpNichol Lane, Coach House has been printing and publishing high-quality editions of innovative poetry, fiction, drama and nonfiction since 1965.

We’ve published books by such literary luminaries as Christian Bök, Nicole Brossard, Michael Redhill, and Lisa Robertson.

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D U ND U RN P RE S S An independent Canadian publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, history, mystery, local interest, and young adult novels with a focus on Canadian authors telling Canadian stories.

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F R O N T I E R CO L L E GE Frontier College is Canada’s original literacy organization, founded in 1899 on the belief that literacy is a fundamental right. We provide literacy support for individuals and communities across Canada.

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HU M B E R S CH O O L F O R W R IT E R S Over 300 of our alumni have published over a thousand books. Kick-start your own writing in October during our 25th anniversary workshop, or polish your manuscript via correspondence! Visit our booth for information or to speak with graduates.

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LEE B I C E M AT H E S O N & J.R . MAT HE SON The Paige Maddison Series is a ghostly YA tale read by those young at heart. “Live from a place of love. It conquers all that is evil.” Since the release of Destiny’s Gate, the authors have participated in over 20 book signings: Independent, Chapters/Indigo bookstores, INSPIRE!TIBF, and The Word On The Street book festivals.

M A G E N TA Magenta. You need to read these books. You just don’t know it yet. (And they’ll be priced at a discount during The Word On The Street, both print and e-books.)

M ES D A M E S O F M AYHE M The Mesdames of Mayhem are 15 published Canadian women crime writers. Most are winners or finalists of major awards, e.g. Arthur Ellis, Edgar. We blog weekly at www.mesdamesofmayhem.com. Follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/MesdamesOfMayhem/) and Twitter @MesdamesMayhem.

PENN Y L . S A M M S Penny L. Samms is a multi-faceted author in Toronto who has published seven books for a variety of audiences with an eighth on its way! Come and support Penny with a smile and a purchase of an autographed book.

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S E C O N D S T O RY PR E SS Second Story Press is dedicated to publishing feminist-inspired books for adults and young readers. We are proud to have been publishing award-winning books that entertain, educate, and empower for over 25 years.

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S H E RI - LYN N KE NNY BOOKS Sheri-Lynn Kenny Books have vibrant artwork and stories anchored in education. These books focus on the alphabet; counting, adding, colours, environmental awareness; and multiculturalism. Aimed at ages two to ten, even adults find reading them pure joy!

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S I S T E RS I N CR IME : T OR ONT O CHAPT E R Toronto Sisters in Crime is a member of an international organization that promotes the ongoing advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers. Learn more about us and meet some authors at our booth in The Writers Block.

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T H E BO O K S E AT Say good bye to awkward reading positions with The Book Seat! Your hands-free holder for both books and tablet devices. From Australia, The Book Seat is revolutionizing reading by physically enhancing the reader’s experience in a comfortable and relaxed way.

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T H E P O RTA L P R OPHE CIE S The prophecies are the key to their survival. Each book is based on a different prophecy leading our heroes to new places and new friends while experiencing growing pains along the way. The entire series delves deep into the understanding of magic and self-discovery, all the while questioning the right versus wrong equation on personal levels.

T O RO N T O P U BLIC LIBR ARY W OR KE R S UNION The Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) Local 4948 represents 2,100 men and women who work for the Toronto Public Library system. The Library and its workers promote and enrich the democratic, cultural, educational, and economic life of our diverse and evolving city. Great people make great libraries. Great libraries make great cities.

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