Here are just a few literary events happening across the country in the next week:

• Canadian Children’s Book Week authors Julie Lawson, Penny Draper, Michelle Mulder, and Robin Stevenson read at Tall Tall Books, Victoria (April 16, 2 p.m., free)
• Participate in literary translation exercises with Chad Pelley and Françoise Enguehard at Words on the Move/Mots en Mouvement, Memorial University, SN-4087, St. John’s (April 17, 3 p.m., free)
• James Loney launches his memoir, Captivity, United Steelworkers Hall, Toronto (April 19, 6:30 p.m., free)
• Freehand Books hosts a release party for Kristen den Hartog, Michael Murphy, and Ian Williams, Endeavor Arts Space, Calgary (April 20, 7 p.m., free)
• Jessica Westhead launches And Also Sharks with a reading and shark movies, Underground Cinema, Toronto (April 20, 6 p.m., free)