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SUMMARY:Linda Leith Publishing Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nWith: \n\nToula Drimonis\nAlex Costa\nDon Macdonald\nRebecca Morris\nMichael Foy\nOren Safdie\nJanet Torge\nDavid Homel\nNatalie Southworth\n\nModerated by Linda Leith \nLinda Leith Publishing will present their local authors of the season\, along with some recent stars. Short readings from a variety of genres will be followed by mingling and book signing. \nAlex Costa has degrees in biology and dentistry from McGill University. Born and raised in the neighbourhood of North Toronto\, she grew up near the ravines that inspired this story. She now lives in Montreal with her husband Mark\, also a dentist\, her two sons\, and a big shaggy dog named Rookie who has excellent teeth. The first in a planned trilogy\, The Roughling is her first novel. www.alexcosta.ca \nThe author of the 2022 bestseller We\, the Others\, Toula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist\, writer and news producer. A former news director for TC Media\, she has reported and written on politics\, social justice\, and women’s issues for national and international publications. She has worked in television\, radio\, and print in all three of her languages\, and has appeared on TV as both panelist and contributor to English and French-language current-affairs and cultural news shows. \nMichael Foy was born and raised in Surrey\, British Columbia. He holds degrees in psychology and education from Simon Fraser University. His fiction has appeared in Grain Magazine\, The Nashwaak Review\, QWERTY\, Literally Stories\, Blank Spaces\, Canadian Shorts II\, and other journals and anthologies. His story “The Questions Run” received an Honourable Mention in the Riddle Fence Fiction Contest. He lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters. www.michaelfoy.ca \nDavid Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left the city in 1970 for Paris\, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs. He has published ten novels\, from Electrical Storms (1988) to The Teardown\, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019\, and most recently\, Private Number (2025). He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay\, directed documentary films\, worked in TV production\, been a literary translator\, journalist\, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Rose (2015)\, The Last Bullet Is For You (2016)\, Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush (2021)\, also with LLP\, was his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal. \nDon Macdonald worked for over 20 years as a journalist in Winnipeg\, Montreal and Quebec City. His first novel\, Omand’s Creek\, was an Amazon bestseller that the Montreal Gazette praised as “the best Canadian crime debut in recent memory.” He lives in Montreal. www.donmacdonald.ca \nOriginally from Guelph\, Rebecca Morris lives in Montreal. She earned an M.A. in French from Dalhousie\, had three children in three years and taught high school before turning to writing full time. Rebecca’s short stories have won several awards\, including the Malahat Review Open Season Award and the Humber Literary Review Emerging Writers Fiction contest. She is a Banff Centre alumna\, recipient of a Canada Council Arts grant and an active member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, where she has taught workshops on short fiction and narrative structure. Other Maps is her first novel. \nOren Safdie was born in Montreal where he attended St George’s School and Marianopolis College. Following graduate studies in Architecture and Creative Writing at Columbia University\, Oren has worked as a playwright\, screenwriter\, and professor of Dramatic Writing & Literature. Five of his plays were New York Times Critic’s Picks. Beyond Ken Dryden\, which is his first book\, was produced as a play in Montreal in 2024 and Toronto in 2025. He divides his time between LA and Montreal. \nNatalie Southworth’s award-winning stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada\, the UK and the US\, including The North American Review\, The Moth Magazine\, The New Quarterly\, Canadian Notes & Queries\, The Brooklyn Review and more. She lives in Montreal. \nJanet Torge lives in Montreal and is always looking for new adventures. She’s been a television documentary producer\, a prenatal teacher and Birth Doula\, an overnight talk-show host at CFCF Radio\, traffic reporter and Radio Noon host at CBC Montreal\, a columnist at the Montreal Gazette\, and co-founder of the first rape relief centre in Canada. She recently trained as a Death Doula and is also the author of Dear Sam\, a book about the death of her son. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/linda-leith-publishing-showcase/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
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SUMMARY:Guernica Editions’ Montreal Book Launch 2026
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nWith: \n\nMarie-Josée Poisson\, Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties\nRobin Blackburn McBride\, River of Dreams\nJay Quint\, Village Dreams\nH. Nigel Thomas\, And Then Again Begin\nHélène Rioux / Jonathan Kaplansky\, The Love of Man\n\nModerated by Connie Guzzo-McParland \nJoin us for a vibrant literary celebration at the Read Quebec Book Fair for Guernica Editions’ annual Montreal Book Launch. Enjoy lively readings from our authors\, browse and buy fresh new titles\, and enter our book‑bag raffle. After the event\, join us for a friendly AELAQ‑ and QWF-sponsored cocktail\, where writers\, publishers\, and book lovers gather to mingle\, toast\, and celebrate Montreal’s literary scene. \nConnie Guzzo McParland\, President and Co-director of Guernica Editions\, holds a BA in Italian Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University. She is the author of the novels The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (2013) and The Women of Saturn (2017)\, the latter translated into Italian as Le donne di Saturno (2019). Her nonfiction work includes the biography An Opera in 3 Acts\, translated into French as Un opéra en 3 actes (2021). She also translated The Twelfth Room\, the English edition of La Dodicesima Stanza. Her latest work\, Stitch by Stitch\, Punto per punto\, De fil à aiguille\, launching in March 2027\, is a collection of stories and testimonials about Italian immigrant women who laboured in the garment industry in Quebec. \nHer writing has been recognized with numerous distinctions\, including the Concordia University David McKeen Award in Creative Writing (2008) for her thesis Girotondo; a shortlist nomination for the Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Award for The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (2013). \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/guernica-editions-montreal-book-launch-2026/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
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