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

• Wordstock literary festival, various locations, Collingwood, Ontario (Sept. 9“10, schedule at wordstock.ca)
• Halifax poet laureate Tanya Davis performs Hello, Change, Plutonium Playhouse, Halifax (Sept. 9“11, schedule at atlanticfringe.ca)
• Alan Cumyn launches Tilt, Collected Works, Ottawa (Sept. 10, 2 p.m., free)
• D.O.A. singer Joe Keithley signs Talk – Action = O with a performance, Sloth Records, Calgary (Sept. 10, 2:30 p.m., free)
• Joel Thomas Hynes launches Straight Razor Days, The Ship, St. John’s (Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m., free)
• Film critic Roger Ebert signs Life Itself, Bay and Bloor Indigo, Toronto (Sept. 14, 7 p.m., free)
• Helen Humphreys launches The Reinvention Of Love, Dora Keogh, Toronto (Sept. 14, 7 p.m., free)