Upcoming Events and Workshops
Where We Meet
ANNOUNCEMENT: Our monthly meetings will be held above The World’s Biggest Bookstore at 20 Edward Street (near Dundas and Yonge subway line—one block north of Dundas, half a block west of Yonge).
The meetings will take place in the meeting room on the second floor of the store, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. every third Thursday of the month (except July and August). Signs will be posted.
Questions?
If you have questions about our events or workshops, please e-mail .
Events: Sorted by Date
Upcoming events are sorted chronologically by date. Archived events are sorted by reverse date order (oldest at the bottom).
Upcoming Meetings
Information for events will be announced here when available. Meeting dates have been included so that you may note them in your calendar.
March 18, 2010
W A Writers' Circle — Moderator: Bianca Lakoseljac
Bring one page of text (10 copies to distribute), double spaced, for critiquing. If you do not wish to have your work critiqued, you are still welcome to join the circle and to critique others.
Bring your experiences and your approaches to various aspects of creative writing and share them with other writers.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Above The World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, Toronto.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $10; Students (with student ID) $5
April 15, 2010
TBA
Details for this meeting will be posted when available.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Above The World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, Toronto.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $10; Students (with student ID) $5
May 20, 2010
TBA
Details for this meeting will be posted when available.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Above The World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, Toronto.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $10; Students (with student ID) $5
June 17, 2010
TBA
Details for this meeting will be posted when available.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Above The World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, Toronto.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $10; Students (with student ID) $5
July & August
The Toronto branch is on summer break and will resume regular meetings starting in September.
Past Meetings
Archived events are sorted by reverse date order (oldest at the bottom).
As information becomes available for the new year, the agenda and bios for meetings held in prior years are moved to the Past Events and Workshops page.
February 18, 2010
Shirarose Wilensky, editor, and Halli Villegas, publisher, of Tightrope Books publishing house
Tightrope Books was established in January 2005 to bring a fresh take to the business of books, with emphasis on the urban and subversive. It’s dedicated to finding young voices to bring the word off the street, encouraging established writers to experiment with other genres or different ways of looking at their art, using innovative marketing techniques and striking design to make their books stand out from the crowd. This publishing house is not just multi-cultural. It is also a multi-arts press bringing together Canadian artists from all disciplines and backgrounds to make each writer's book unique on the Canadian literary scene.
January 21, 2010
Al Moritz, winner of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize
“Everything you always wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask,” you just may have the chance to ask Al Moritz, who was awarded the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Sentinel. Moritz, who has lived in Toronto since 1974, teaches at the University of Toronto.
December 17, 2009
Antonio D'Alfonso, a multi-award winning author and publisher
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Antonio D'Alfonso, a multi-award winning author and the publisher at Guernica Editions (founded in 1978), will be our guest speaker.
Author of more than thirty titles, Antonio D'Alfonso is a Trillium Award winner, 1994 French - Un vendredi du mois d'aout, a publisher, an educator, a filmmaker, an editor, to name just a few of his many facets. Antonio will read from one of his works and will discuss the ins and outs of the publishing industry.
8:10 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CAA member readings: 5 minutes per person, up to 10 readers.Please contact to place your name on the reading list.
November 19, 2009
Literary Agent Alisha Sevigny, from The Rights Factory literary agency
Alisha will discuss approaches in searching for a literary agent and what agents look for in writers, as well as current trends in writing and publishing.
October 15, 2009
A Writers' Circle — Moderator: Bianca Lakoseljac
Bring one page of text (10 copies to distribute), double spaced, for critiquing. If you do not wish to have your work critiqued, you are still welcome to join the circle and to critique others.
Bring your experiences and your approaches to various aspects of creative writing and share them with other writers.
Suggestions:
- Brainstorming
- How to critique poetry vs prose
- Plotting: Outline or not, what type
- Research for fiction vs. non fiction
- Writers Block: dos and don'ts
- POV--first, second, third, omniscient narrator
- Time transitions: Show, not Tell
- Critiquing approaches within a writers' group: What works and what doesn't
Please join us for an evening of sharing and discussing topics of interest.
September 17, 2009
Annual General Meeting & Panel Discussion
Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. followed by a panel discussion by two CAA Toronto Branch first-time authors, Jake Hogeterp, On Cloud Nine, published by Hidden Brook Press; and Trisha Smith, Holiday in Hell, published by Asteroid Publishing, Inc.
Earlier Meetings Archived
Meetings held before the archived events above have been moved to the Past Events and Workshops page.
www.canauthorstoronto.org/events.html
Updated: March 7, 2010