I am going on tour for my book The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard? Here’s where you can catch me, details on all the events are below:
- Fri/Sat Sep 11-12: tabling at the Halifax Art Book Fair (more info)
- Sun Sep 13, 6:30 – 8 pm: Book launch at Venus Envy, Halifax (with guest Jeff Miller (more info)
- Friday, September 18, 6-8 pm: book launch at n’etait-ce pas l’ete, Montreal (with guests Wai-Yant Li and Andi Vicente) (more info)
- Sat/Sun Sep 26/27: exhibiting at Word on the Street, Toronto (more info)
- Saturday Oct 24, 11 am – 1 pm: book signing outside Octopus Books, Ottawa (rain date Sunday Oct 25) (more info)
- Saturday Oct 24, 5-7 pm: book launch at Ottawa Trans Library (with guests Adrienne Row-Smith and Alexis Shotwell) (more info)
TBD:
- Toronto book launch
- Online book launch
- Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Victoria book launches if I can get a grant 🙏🏻
Halifax Art Book Fair
I’ll be tabling for Sheer Spite Press! Learn more about the event here.
When: Friday, September 11, and Saturday, September 12, 11 am – 6 pm
Where: All Nations Church, 2535 Robie Street (corner of Robie and Charles).
Halifax book launch
A book launch and friendship forum with special guest Jeff Miller.
When: Sunday, September 13, 6:30 – 8 pm
Where: Venus Envy (and livestreaming!)
Registration is required (link coming soon, on Venus Envy’s site)
Guest:
Jeff Miller’s debut novel Temporary Palaces was published by the House of Anansi Press in April 2026. His award-winning creative nonfiction collection Ghost Pine: All Stories True was published by Invisible Publishing. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives in rural Nova Scotia.
Montreal book launch
A book launch and friendship forum with special guests guests Wai-Yant Li and Andi Vicente.
When: Friday, September 18, 6-8 pm
Where: Librairie n’était-ce pas l’été, 6792 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal
Guests:
Andi Vicente (they/them) is a queer filipinx artist whose curiosities and practice is radicalized by relationship building and reimagining. Through storytelling, installation, writing and collage work, they’ve written and created pieces about precarious livelihoods, diasporic yearnings and the juxtaposition of movements. Andi enjoys soaking in a good anthology, sharing a pot of soup and discovering desire paths in parks.
Wai-Yant Li is a potter who’s been making pots since 2003. Born and raised in small town Alma, Quebec, they are a second generation kid to Cantonese parents born in Guangdong and Hong Kong. They have now lived in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke for 30 years and have spent 20 of those years running their business of making ceramic critters, Créations Li, with one of their best buds Chris! Their love for ceramics and collective liberation runs deep, and they hope to continue fostering this as the founder of Studio 3 Tables.
Word on the Street Toronto
I’ll be tabling for Sheer Spite Press! Learn more about the event here.
When: Saturday, September 26 – 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Sunday, September 27 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street W, Toronto ON
Book signing, Ottawa
I’ll be sitting out front of Octopus Books to sign books and chat.
When: Saturday, October 24, 11 am – 1 pm (rain date Sunday October 25, 11-1)
Where: Octopus Books, 116 Third Avenue at Bank St., Ottawa
Ottawa book launch
A book launch and friendship forum with special guests Adrienne Row-Smith and Alexis Shotwell.
When: Saturday October 24, 5-7 pm
Where: Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset Street West
Guests:
Alexis Shotwell is a queer SF nerd, functional potter, teacher, and writer, currently living on unceded Algonquin land. Author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (about why purity won’t save us) and the forthcoming Liberation is Other People (about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit), she is also finishing a book about Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchism and why it’s so great.
Adrienne Row-Smith (she/her) is a Queer Black visual specialist based in so-called Ottawa, working across photo and video to create bold, impactful imagery. Rooted in a deep commitment to authenticity and accessibility in media, she co-founded The Grove, which is an interdisciplinary art and community space offering affordable rentals and sliding-scale events. Through both her creative practice and community work, Adrienne aims to build a space and working body that reflects the elements of care, resistance, and belonging, where disenfranchised voices are not only heard but celebrated.
