Christine McNair's spring readings: Wolfville, Ottawa, Toronto, St. Catharines, Calgary, Regina, Vancouver + Hamilton

above/ground press author Christine McNair is doing a spring tour, with dates across Canada throughout the next four months. You should totally go hear her, if you are able.

She's touring predominantly for her first trade poetry collection, Conflict (BookThug, 2012), but copies of her collaborative chapbook with rob mclennan, Prelude: selections from a collaboration (2012) are still available. You can also check out an above/ground press broadside of hers, here.

WOLFVILLE, NS: Friday March 1, 2013
Authors@Acadia
Where: Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
Vaughan Memorial Library, 4pm
http://valleyevents.ca/event?id=20740

OTTAWA, ON: Sunday March 17, 2013
VerseFest: A World of Poetry in Ottawa
Christine McNair, Ken Babstock and Anne Simpson
Where: Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Market Sq, Ottawa, 4:00 PM
http://www.versefest.ca/2013/schedule/sunday/

TORONTO, ON: Wednesday April 10, 2013
Pivot Reading Series
Christine McNair with Roseanne Carrara and Jessica Hiemstra.
Where: The Press Club, 850 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, 8:00 PM
Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney.
http://pivotreadings.ca/

ST CATHARINES, ON: Friday April 26, 2013
In The Soil Arts Festival Presents Christine McNair and Mark Goldstein with other readers and musical guests: TBA
Where: Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON, 8:00 PM
Hosted by: Eric Schmaltz
http://www.inthesoil.on.ca/

CALGARY, AB: Thursday May 9, 2013
filling Station’s Flywheel Reading Series presents Christine McNair, author of Conflict and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: Pages Books on Kensington, 1135 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, AB, 7:30 PM
http://www.fillingstation.ca/flywheel

REGINA, SK: Monday May 13, 2013
Vertigo Reading Series presents Christine McNair, author of Conflict and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: Crave Kitchen + Wine Bar, 1925 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK, 7:30 PM
Hosted by: Tara Dawn Solheim
http://vertigoreadingseries.wordpress.com/

VANCOUVER, BC: Tuesday May 14, 2013
Real Vancouver Writers’ Reading Series presents Christine McNair and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: TBA, Vancouver, BC, 8:00 PM
Hosted by: Sean Cranbury
http://realvancouverwriters.org/

ST. CATHARINES, ON: Saturday June 29, 2013
Niagara Literary Arts Festival Presents BookThug Author Night
Featuring readings by: Mark Goldstein, Beatriz Hausner, Christine McNair, Shannon Maguire, David Dowker, bill bissett, Head Thug Jay Millar and more
Where: Mahtay Cafe, 241 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON
Time: TBA PM
http://nlaf.jigsy.com/

HAMILTON, ON: Sunday November 3, 2013
The LitLive Reading Series presents Christine McNair with other readers TBA
Where: The Homegrown Hamilton Cafe, on the 1st Floor of the Skydragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton, ON, 7:30 PM
http://litlive.blogspot.ca/

above/ground press at the virus bookfair, st. catharines, ontario saturday june 16 2012

above/ground press and Chaudiere Books will be participating in this year's Virus Bookfair on Saturday, June 16, 2012, in St. Catharines, Ontario, as part of the month long Niagara Literary Arts Festival. The fair runs from noon to 5pm, with the After A Fair literary reading will at the MahTay Cafe starting at 7pm, featuring performers Ellen S. Jaffe, Betsy Belega, Lisa de Nikoltis and Brenda Missen.

The Virus BookFair runs throughout a number of venues in downtown St. Catharines, with our little table, featuring various publications by above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, rob mclennan and Christine McNair, will be at the MahTay Cafe, 241 Saint Paul Street, St Catherines, ON L2R3M7. (905) 685-4040

Also, check out rob mclennan and Christine McNair's reading the evening before at Patrick Sheehan's Irish Pub, 101 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines.

For more information on the Virus BookFair and/or the Niagara Literary Arts Festival, contact Jordan Fry at niagaraliteraryartsfestival@gmail.com or 905.329.4739.

above/ground press participating in Niagara Falls, Toronto + Ottawa small press fairs;

above/ground press will be participating in small press book fairs (with new wares a'plenty) in:

Niagara Falls, ON: A Book Affair, Saturday, June 4th, 2011, hosted by The Niagara Literary Arts Festival. information here.

Toronto ON: The Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Sunday, June 19,2011. information here.

Ottawa ON: the ottawa small press book fair, Saturday, June 25, 2011, hosted by the small press action network - ottawa (span-o). information here.

for further information on small press book fairs across Canada, check out the small press book fair blog.

hopefully we will see you at one, if not all of these! best,