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Monday, April 27

27
April 2026

Translation in/of Fiction, Fiction in/of translation

With this panel, we wish to put three translation/literary scholars in conversation with Madhur Anand, specifically around her novel To Place a Rabbit, where fiction and the act of writing intersect with translation in multilayered and complex ways. During the panel, literary scholar and writer Kasia Juno Van Schaik (University of New Brunswick) and literary translation scholars Geneviève Robichaud (Mount Allison University, Université de Moncton) and Arianne Des Rochers (Université de Moncton) will be invited to provide a brief scholarly analysis of To Place a Rabbit, with particular focus on translation (both literal and figurative) as a poetic, literary and fictional device. These short presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion, where the author and the public will be invited to respond to and engage with the scholarly insights put forward.

No registration required—arrive early to secure your spot!
27
April 2026

Women Among Monuments: A Conversation with Kasia Van Schaik

Kasia van Schaik was born in South Africa, raised in BC, and has lived in Toronto, Berlin, and Montreal, where she earned a doctorate from McGill. Kasia van Schaik is currently an assistant professor of English and the co-director of Creative Writing at UNB. Her books include the Giller-nominated story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth (2022), the poetry chapbook, Sea Burial Laws According to Country (2018), and the co-edited essay collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge (2025). Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, Geist, Maisonneuve Magazine, and the CBC. She has read and presented work at literary festivals including the Blue Metropolis and Quebec City's Imagination Festival. Forthcoming in February 2026, Women Among Monuments is her debut nonfiction book. Part cultural criticism, part memoir, Women Among Monuments is a meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius.

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27
April 2026

How Far the Light Reaches

This event will begin with a Flash FRYE reading by Rebecca Salazar (antibody, M&S), followed by an in-conversation with Jessica Bebenek (No One Knows Us There, Book*hug) and Canisia Lubrin (The World After Rain, M&S). Join our guests as they discuss the many ways in which we can care for loved ones, as well as honor and mourn unimaginable losses.

27
April 2026

Celles que l'on porte

Cet événement débutera par une lecture Flash FRYE de Jessica Gagnon (Poussiéreuse, Perce-Neige), suivie d’une discussion entre Caroline Bélisle (Les ensevelies, Perce-Neige) et Fanie Demeule (Du ventre des montagnes, Québec Amérique). Venez écouter nos invitées parler de suspense, de deuil, d'amour et de saisons.

Tuesday, April 28

28
April 2026

Lunch littéraire : Les traits difficiles

À table, devant les invités, une enfant anxieuse essaie de ne pas mordre son verre de cristal. Un homme rêve de prendre racine au milieu du trottoir. Pour se soustraire aux regards, une femme se terre dans des maisons inhabitées.

Les histoires se répondent, s’immiscent les unes dans les autres, elles se déploient en un souffle soutenu. Si les circonstances changent, le mouvement est le même, creusant notre quête d’existence, notre besoin d’amour et les discours intérieurs que nous échafaudons pour calmer notre conscience. Ces fables amorales, peuplées de personnages à la fois déçus et désirants, lucides et aveuglés, nous tendent un miroir tranchant.

28
April 2026

Cross-Genre Writing: a workshop with Triny Finlay, Rebecca Salazar and Kasia Van Schaik

This creative writing workshop explores cross-genre practices as spaces of experimentation, hybridity, and formal freedom. Drawing on the work and experience of Triny Finlay and the other hosts, the session invites participants to reflect on how texts move between genres (fiction, poetry, essay, performance, or theory) and what such crossings make possible in terms of voice, structure, and meaning. The workshop will combine discussion and creative prompts, encouraging writers to think beyond fixed categories and to experiment with genre as a dynamic, porous practice.

No registration required—arrive early to secure your spot!