NorthWest Passages free online reading

Elizabeth Haynes
POSTED: Oct 31, 2025

Literary Reading or Event

Join host Elizabeth Haynes, author of Food for the Journey, and National Council rep for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut for The Writers' Union of Canada; and Jackie Carmichael, author of Heard Amid the Guns… More

Dispatches from Canada's North

Helena Katz | POSTED: Oct 31, 2025

New Publication

Helena, a woman who has embraced life as though someone left the gate open, is proud to have given birth to her latest book. Dispatches from Canada's North is a memoir that delves into the question of… More

Sunshine Coast Reading

George Opacic
POSTED: Oct 31, 2025

Member Activity

At 92, Ben is more creative than anyone else I know. He will be back to his old stomping grounds on the Sunshine Coast, BC, where he wrote Flying With White Eagle, and where he he found his healing… More

New Book Release

Gina Brown | POSTED: Oct 31, 2025

New Publication

Gina Brown, of Halifax, recently launched her third novel, Pickled in Love, a romantic comedy about life, love and pickleball. The story centers on two fifty-somethings and the challenges they… More

Participating in this year's TIFA (Toronto International Festival of Authors) with Portuguese author Maria João Lopo de Carvalho Nov 1 Sat, 2:00pm ↑ 3:00pm. Venue: Emmanuel College (University of… More

Ottawa Romance Writers holds publicly accessible workshops with topic experts the first Sunday of every month! Get your ticket on Eventbrite.Please join us on Zoom at 2pm Eastern on Sunday, 2… More

Named and Nameless

Susan McCaslin
POSTED: Oct 22, 2025

New Publication

Susan McCaslin’s latest volume of poetry, Named & Nameless (Inanna Publications, Aug. 2025) has been launched in Vancouver, and read at a venue in Fort Langley, BC near where she lives. She… More

Home for Margaret

Denise Davy | POSTED: Oct 21, 2025

New Publication

Book launch for Home for Margaret, by Denise Davy, (published by Groundwood Books) at Different Drummer Books, 513 Locust St., Burlington.  More

Vancouver Island writer and longtime TWUC member, Shelley A. Leedahl, won a $500 poetry award celebrating former Ladysmith, BC mayor (1964-1975), Kay Grouhel. A public unveiling and reading of the… More

Diana Hayes's debut novella, "Looking for Cornelius"

Diana Hayes | POSTED: Oct 21, 2025

New Publication

Poet Diana Hayes’s debut novella, Looking for Cornelius, was published September 2025 by Wipf & Stock/Resource Publications.A gorgeous, poignant tale of homecoming told with a keen sense of poetic… More