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Canadian literary event roundup: April 27-May 3

  • Canadian Literature Symposium – The Worlds of Carol Shields, University of Ottawa (April 27“29, $100, details available on the website)
  • Manitoba Book Awards, Centre culturel franco-manitobain, Winnipeg (April 28, 7 p.m., free)
  • Barbara Reid reads from her children’s book Picture a Tree, Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto (April 29, 2 p.m., free)
  • Alison DeLory launches her children’s book Lunar Lifter, Keshen Goodman Library, Halifax (April 29, 3 p.m., free)
  • Tightrope Books hosts “literary zoo” fundraiser for the High Park Zoo, Café Novo, Toronto (April 29, 1 p.m., PWYC donation)
  • Vincent Lam launches The Headmaster’s Wager, Calgary Public Library Central Branch (May 1, 7 p.m., $30, includes copy of book)
  • Monica Graham launches Historic New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville and Trenton, New Glasgow Public Library, Nova Scotia (May 2, 7 p.m., free)
  • Trillium 25th Anniversary Reading Series with Mark Frutkin, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Rabindranath Maharaj, Pasha Malla, and Camilla Gibb, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (May 2, 6:30 p.m., free)
  • Anne Fleming launches her short story collection Gay Dwarves of America, Full of Beans, Toronto (May 2, 7 p.m., free)
  • Canadian Children’s Book Week kicks off with readings across the country (May 5“12, full schedule available on the website)

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April 27th, 2012

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