Book Launch: Loch Baillie’s River Running

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
7:00 pm ET

Join Loch Baillie for the launch of his first full-length collection of poetry, River Running, on Wednesday, March 18th at 7PM! Loch will be joined by special guests Simina Banu, Tara McGowan-Ross, and Sally Cunningham.

Free to attend!

Loch Baillie (he/il) is a queer writer and editor based in Quebec City. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks,ice, dove, parachute (Cactus Press) and Citronella (Anstruther Press), as well as the full-length collection River Running (Goose Lane Editions, 2026). He is an associate poetry editor at Plenitude Magazine and a board director for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. An alumnus of Bishop’s University, Loch is currently continuing his English literature studies at the graduate level at Université Laval. Find him everywhere @lochbaillie.

Simina Banu’s interests are at the intersection of capitalism, technology and mental health. In 2020, she published her debut full-length collection, POP (Coach House Books), which won the 2021 ReLit award for poetry. She has published several chapbooks: where art (words(on)pages), Tomorrow, adagio (above/ground), harmony in beach foam (Anstruther press), and ERE—a collaboration with Amilcar John Nogueira (Collusion Books). In 2024, she released her second full-length poetry collection, I will get up off of (Coach House Books).

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She’s the author of poetry collections GIRTH and SCORPION SEASON, the Substack THEATRE OF CRUELTY, and the memoir NOTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT, which was a finalist for the Weston prize for nonfiction. She lives in Montreal.

Sally Cunningham (she/her) is a writer and an instructional designer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Originally from British Columbia, she holds an MA in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Montreal Fiction Prize, and her writing has appeared in yolk, Riddle Fence, and Mud Season Review, among others. Her play Pianoland was featured in the 19th Women’s Work Festival. She was a 2025 writer-in-residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts, a 2026 writer-in-residence at Hundredth Hill, and is a fiction editor at Ahoy Magazine. Find more of her work online at sallyjcunningham.weebly.com.