H appy New Year!
This cold, cold January is a busy month for Mansfield authors. Here’s the lineup.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 10 PM — EVERYWHERE
Jim Smith, author of Back Off, Assassin! and Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra, appears on Nik Beat’s radio program Howl
CIUT 89.5 FM or www.ciut.fm
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 7 PM — HALIFAX
Alice Burdick, author of Flutter and Holler, reads with Rachel Lebowitz
The Atrium, Room 101
Saint Mary’s University
5940 Inglis Street, Halifax
Free
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 7 PM — TORONTO
Marko Sijan (Mongrel) and Jim Smith (Back Off, Assassin! and Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra) read from their books and new works
The Boneshaker Reading Series
St. Clair Silverthorn Library, 1748 St. Clair W., Toronto
Free
Hosted by Lillian Necakov (The Bone Broker and Hooligans)
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 7:30 PM — TORONTO
Stuart Ross (Our Days in Vaudeville) and Jim Smith (Back Off, Assassin! and Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra) join Paul Vermeersch and some great musicians for a funder for the Al Purdy A-Frame and its Writer in Residence program
The Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street, Toronto
$10
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 6:30 PM — TORONTO
Peter Norman, author of At the Gates of the Theme Park and Water Damage, joins Anna Yin, Ayesha Chatterjee, and George Elliott Clarke to celebrate Robbie Burns.
Bards at the Beaches Library
Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E., Toronto
Free
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 8 PM — KINGSTON
Jason Heroux, author of Memoir of an Alias, Emergency Hallelujah and Natural Capital, reads with Michael e. Casteels and Caitlin Galway
Thrive Reading Series
The Grad Club, 162 Barrie Street, Kingston
Free
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 6 PM — LUNENBERG, N.S.
Alice Burdick, author of Flutter and Holler, reads with Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Carole Langille, Janet Barkhouse, E. Alex Pierce and Rachel Edmonds.
Mamas in Mid-winter: A Literary Evening of Readings By and About Mothers
Second Story Women’s Centre, 18 Dufferin Street (in the old train station)
Free
