Events

EVENTS

2022

This Magazine, We Need to Talk about This: Climate Justice, Virtual Series, Moderator, June 17, 2022
The FOLD Festival, The Truth Behind Climate Fiction with fiction writers Sydney Hegele, Premee Mohamed and Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Moderator, May 4, 2022
Launch of Bird Arsonist (New Star Press, 2022) by Gary Barwin & Tom Prime, Guest Reader, February 5, 2022

2021

BC Federation of Writers, Wise Words, Guest Speaker, Climate Writing Workshop, November 24, 2021
University of Victoria, Creative Futures: Dean's Speaker Series, Sustainability and the Arts with Conrad Alexandrowicz, Shane Book, Panelist, November 2, 2021, View here.
H of a Night for an H o fa Year, Meet the Presses, Interview with Gary Barwin, October 28, 2021
York University, Glendon College, Digital Media & Publishing, Guest Speaker, October 26, 2021, 1:00pm -3:00pm
Word on the Street Vancouver, Climate Anthologies Panel, September 24, 2021,
Simon Fraser University, Lunch Poems at SFU with Kathryn Mockler & Michael V. Smith, September 15, 2021 at 12:00pm-1:00pm (PST)/ 3:00pm - 4:00pm (EST), Virtual Reading
University of Victoria, WRIT 120: Writing for the Arts, Guest Lecturer, March 18, 2021
University of Victoria, WRIT 501: Memory and Creativity, Guest Speaker, February 8, 2021
University of Victoria, WRIT 100, Guest Lecturer, January 28, 2021
Word on the Street Toronto: The City Imagines: Writers & the Climate Crisis, Kathryn Mockler moderates a discussion about the climate emergency with Watch Your Head contributors Carleigh Baker, Simone Dalton, Christine Leclerc, and Carrianne Leung. January 21, 2021, 7pm (EST)

2020

Writers Read: Concordia University, Guest Speaker, A discussion about Watch Your Head, November 13, 2020
West Coast Launch for Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, November 5, 2020
CBC, On the Island with Gregor Cragie, Interview about Watch Your Head, November 4, 2020
City of Victoria Poet Laureate John Barton Celebrates New Works - To celebrate Victoria’s rich community of local writers, John Barton invited four authors – John Gould, Kathryn Mockler, Kyeren Regehr and Daniel G Scott – to read from their new works. City of Victoria, October 29, 2020
Launch for Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, Coach House Books, Hosted by Knife | Fork | Book, KFB SalONline, October 7, 2020
Launch for Me, Then You, Then Me, Then, in collaboration with Gary Barwin, Knife | Fork | Book, September 28, 2020
Goose Lane Editions, Launch for Blaze Island by Catherine Bush, Hosted by Another Story Bookstore, Interview, August 31, 2020
Humber College, Creative Book Publishing, Guest Speaker, June 16, 2020
From Pen to Published: Writing and Wellness Workshop, The Soap Box Press and Coach House Books, Toronto, Ontario, June 14, 2020
King's College, Experimental Writing Workshop, Guest Speaker, King's College, London, Ontario, February 26, 2020
Ryerson University, Guest Speaker, Writing and Editing, February 27, 2020
University of Guelph, Creative Writing Program, MFA, Guest Speaker, Writing Dangerous Climates, February 27, 2020

2019

Launch for Gary Barwin's New & Selected For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe with Margaret Christakos, Stuart Ross, and Dani Spinosa, Knife | Fork | Book, December 10, 2019 at 7:00pm
Female Eye Film Festival, Script Reading, Thursday November 7, 2019 at 2:00pm, Free and open to the public
Writers' Read, Concordia University, Kathryn Mockler & Erin Robinsong, A Reading and a Workshop on Poetry and Climate Change Activism, October 25, 2019, 4-6pm.
Earthly Anecdotes, presented by the Toronto Arts Council and the League of Canadian Poets, with Ayesha Chatterjee, George Elliott, Clarke, Catherine Graham, and Kirby, Knife | Fork | Book, Toronto, ON, April 5, 2019, 7pm
Lynn Crosbie Liar 10th Anniversary Bash, Knife | Fork | Book, Toronto, ON, April 6, 2019
Common Readings, Reading with Julie Bruck, Mary Germaine, and Kathryn Mockler, April 29, 2019

2018

Lit Mag Love with Rachel Thompson, Guest Speaker, November 29, 2018
The Puritan Black Friday, Monarch Tavern, Toronto, ON, November 23, 2018
King's College, Experimental Writing Workshop, Guest Speaker, King's College, London, Ontario, October 24, 2019
Word on the Street, Panel: Short Fiction Today, Presented by the Humber School for Writers, September 23, 2018
John Abbott College, Quebec, Guest Speaker, Skype, April 24, 2018
Kevin Chong's Ontario Launch of The Plague, Featuring Naben Ruthnum, Michael W. LaPointe and Kevin Chong, Hosted by Marc Glassman, Pages UnBound, May 25, 2018
Minola Review Launch, The Dock on Queen, May 10, 2018, 7:00pm
Flash Fiction Workshop, Toronto, ON, April 2018
knife | fork | book, Lemon Hound 3.0.3, April 28, 2018, 3:00pm

2016

The Road is the Journey, Poetry Month Reading with Catherine Graham, Ayesha Chatterjee, and Ian Burgham, Toronto, ON, April 14, 2016

2015

2014

Coven - Hosted by Alex Tigchelaar and Damian Rogers - Hen House, Toronto, ON, May 1, 2014
National Poetry Month Showcase: Toronto Edition, Hosted by The Literary Press Group and The League of Canadian Poets, Ben McNally Books, April 23, 2014
VERSeFest 14, Plan 99 Reading Series, Ottawa, ON, March 29, 2014
University of British Columbia, Creative Writing Program, Guest Lecturer, Vancouver, BC, February 25, 2014

2013

Poetry London, London, ON, November 20, 2013
Western University, Guest Speaker: Film Structure: Your Argument: Rhetorical Strategy in a Visual Age, London, ON, Oct. 8, 2013
Tightrope Spring Launch Thing, Toronto, ON, June 26, 2013
Toronto Launch for The Saddest Place on Earth at Q-Space, Toronto, ON, June 2, 2013
Woodstock Public Library, Adrienne Barrett's book launch, Woodstock, ON, May 30, 2013
Blue Metropolis - Montreal Launch for The Saddest Place on Earth, DC Books, Montreal, PQ, April 25, 2013

2012

London Open Mic Poetry Night: Feature Reader, London, ON, November 7, 2012
Art Bar, Toronto, ON, October 30, 2012
Word on the Street, Toronto, Vibrant Voices of Ontario, Toronto, ON, September 23, 2012
Amazing New Stuff with David Egan, Shari Kasman, Chris Graham, Toronto, ON, The Common, September 20, 2012
Descant 157 Launch, Magpie Taproom, Toronto, ON, June 27, 2012
The Cobourg Poetry Workshop's 3rd Thursday Reading Series, Cobourg, ON, May 17, 2012
A PL Farewell... Celebrating National Poetry Month and London's First Poet Laureate, Penn Kemp. London, ON, April 26, 2012
Valentine's Eve Reading, Tightrope Books, The Painted Lady, Toronto, ON, February 13, 2012
Draft Reading Series, The Only Cafe, Toronto, ON, February 12, 2012

2008-2011

Onion Man launches with David Whitton (The Reverse Cowgirl) and Christine Walde, Forest City Gallery, London, ON, Dec. 2, 2011
Program in Writing's Student and Faculty Reading at the UWO Grad Club, London, ON, Nov. 30, 2011, Hosted by Claudia Manley, 2011
Tightrope Launch: Onion Man (Kathryn Mockler), Toronto, ON, Nov. 17, 2011
Arsenal Pulp, Joyland, and Broken Pencil present Kevin Chong at Type Books, Toronto, ON, November 3, 2011
Tightrope Books Launch for Heather Wood's Roll With It, Toronto, ON, June 9, 2011
Writers' Union of Canada, OnWords Conference, Panel: Next Generation Genres: Writing at the Edge, May 27, 2011
Tightrope Books Launch for Jim Johnstone’s Sunday, the locusts, Toronto, ON, March 24, 2011
Art Bar Poetry Series, Toronto, ON, December 7, 2010
Livewords, Misunderstandings Magazine Launch, Issue #9, Toronto, ON, June 16, 2008