Photos of trey anthony, Dawn Whitwell, and Gein Fence courtesy of Get Your Lit Out. Dear readers: please help give an author a chance to get married on the midway at this year’s Calgary Stampede. Really! While living in Toronto, Scarborough-raised Natalee Caple wrote many fine books, among them The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World (Anansi), and Mackerel Sky (Thomas Allen). We are sad we’ve lost her to Calgary, but thrilled......

With the end of the academic year looming, Three Ring Paper Productions and the Transgendered, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Association at York University (TBLGAY) invite you to put down your books on Wednesday evening and make your way to Study Hall: A Night of Queer Readings. The event features new and previously published works from authors Derek McCormack, Debra Anderson, R.M. Vaughan, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The reading is organized by Debra Anderson, who is......

At first glance Pride is all about the dancing and the parties and the parades. Au contraire Torontoist readers, Pride is also about events like this reading at Art Metropole tonight. The Toronto Women's Bookstore has invited half-a-dozen great queer writers to read at Get Your Lit Out! Readers include funny gal Mariko Tamaki, poet Zoe Whittall, Sandra Alland and others. The event is tonight at Art Metropole (788 King St. W), 7pm. Photo: Zoe......