Upcoming Events

11/27/2025: The Ampersand Review November Writing Series, “Anchoring the Self to the Broader Moment: Where the personal essay meets the tides of history,” Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus, 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga, Room B222, 6:00 PM 8:00 PM. Details here.

Past Events

9/21/2025: Drunk Fiction at Meyers Creek Brewing Company, Belleville, Ontario, with Vanessa Westermann (Shudder Pulp), Catherine Bush (Skin), and Paul Nicholas Mason (To Our Graves), 2:00-4:00 PM. Books for sale by Stirling Book Co.

5/29/2025: Joint book launch with Michael E. Casteels, author of Furthermore, the Lake (Guernica Editions/1366 Books), and Stuart Ross launching Dag T. Staumsvag’s new and selected poems, Mountains of Kong, Take Cover Books, Peterborough, 7:00 PM. (Rescheduled from 3/28/2025.)

5/26/2025: Toronto launch, supporting Jacob McArthur Mooney, launching The Northern, and Alexis von Konigslow, author of The Exclusion Zone, Another Story Bookshop, 7:00 PM.

4/25/2025: County Library Authors Festival, Picton, Ontario, 3:00 PM (ticketed event).

3/2/2025: LitLive Reading Series, The Staircase, Hamilton, Ontario, 7:00 PM.

2/20/2025: Craft, Creation and Community: Adelle Purdham, Andrew Forbes & Hollay Ghadery in Conversation with Laura Rock Gaughan, Take Cover Books, Peterborough, 7:00-8:30 PM.

10/15/2024: Instagram Live with Shelf Life Books (Calgary), online event, 2:00 PM MDT/4:00 PM EDT.

10/9/2024: Halifax launch with Jenny Haysom (Keep, House of Anansi), Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Halifax, NS, 7:00 PM.

10/3/2024: Toronto launch with Maria Williams and Cassidy McFadzean, Queen Books, 7:00 PM.

10/1/2024: Peterborough: Andrew Forbes’s Book Launch Featuring Maria Williams, with Rob Winger, at Take Cover Books, 7:00 PM.

7/26/2024: Signing and reading, Stirling Book Company, Stirling, ON, 4:00-7:00 PM.

11/2/2023: In conversation with Jessica Westhead, Take Cover Books, Peterborough, ON, 7:00 PM.

5/27/2023: Accessing Authors: In Conversation with Dale Jacobs, co-author of 100 Miles of Baseball, Windsor Public Library, John Muir Branch, 3:00-4:30 PM.

11/25 – 11/27/2022: Book signing at Le Salon du Livre de Montréal, Palais des congrès de Montréal, kiosque #1937.

4/25/2021: Official online book launch for The Only Way Is the Steady Way, presented by Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, hosted by Sean Cranbury of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, 3:00 EST.

4/22/2020: Mattawa River Writers Festival, The Canadian Ecology Centre, Mattawa, Ontario; Virtual event via Zoom, archived forever here.

11/16/2019: Reading at Grand Opening of To Cause a Tiger, 1 Cottage Street, Studio 3-21, Easthampton, Massachusetts, 8:00 PM.

11/7/2019: Fall Fiction Bash! with Lauren Carter and Jessica Westhead, The Sapphire Room, Peterborough, readings, cocktails, ’90s dance party, 8:00 PM – ?

9/22/2019: The Word on the Street, Toronto, Vibrant Voices of Ontario: Emotional Landscapes, with K.D. Miller, 11:00-11:30 AM.

7/13/2019: Lakefield Literary Festival, Local Authors tent in Cenotaph Park, 12:30 PM.

5/16/2019: Toronto: A celebration of Short Story Month, readings and conversation with Andrew Forbes, HB Hogan, and Téa Mutonji, hosted by Invisible publisher Leigh Nash, Queen Books, 914 Queen St. E., 6:30-8:30 PM.

5/10/2019: Ottawa launch with Bindu Suresh, Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Ave., 6:00-8:00 PM.

5/9/2019: Montreal launch of Bindu Suresh‘s 26 Knots, with guest reader Andrew Forbes, La Petite Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, 176 Rue Bernard Ouest, 7:00-9:00 PM.

5/2/2019: Peterborough launch of Lands and Forests at The Garnet, with special guests Dorothy Cheng and Erin Funnell-Kononuk, 7:00-9:00 PM.

3/21/2019: Peterborough, 2019 Margaret Laurence Fellowship Address, “The Days Ahead: Warning and Mourning in Climate Fiction,” Bagnani Hall, Catherine Parr Traill College, 7:00 PM.

3/19/2019: Peterborough, public reading of my own work for the Margaret Laurence Fellowship at Trent University, Junior Common Room of Scott House, Catherine Parr Traill College, 7:00 PM.

9/26/2018: Lindsay: Tyler Hellard and Andrew Forbes: short readings and chat about the allure of sports writing, Kent Bookstore, 15 William St N, Lindsay, ON, 4:00 PM.

9/25/2018: Peterborough: Launch of Tyler Hellard‘s debut novel, Searching for Terry Punchout, featuring short readings by Kate Story, Janette Platana, and Andrew Forbes, The Garnet, 231 Hunter St. W, Peterborough, 5:00-7:00 PM. Hosted by Justin Million.

9/27/2017: De l’utilité de l’ennui: textes de balle launch and discussion with Daniel Grenier and William S. Messier (translators),  Librairie Le Port de tête, Montreal, 6:00-9:00 PM (Facebook event here)

4/29/2017: Authors for Indies, Hunter Street Books, Peterborough, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

4/21/2017: Invisible Night at Prince Edward County Authors Festival, Picton, Ontario, with Michelle Winters, readings and conversation hosted by Leigh Nash, 7:00-9:00 PM

3/22/2017: Public Texts: Public Talk presents Mark Kingwell, Bagnani Hall, Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough

3/9/2017: Trillium Book Award 30th Anniversary, Bagnani Hall, Trent University, Peterborough, with Jeramy Dodds, Caroline Durand, Kevin Hardcastle, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Janette Platana

9/25/2016: Word on the Street Toronto, “Baseball Fever” Author Cruise

9/18/2016: Brooklyn Book Festival, book signing at Invisible Publishing’s tent

5/13/2016: Designated Hitters: Bad Men, Boogeymen, and Baseball, featuring Andrew F. Sullivan, and Ian Rogers, The Garnet

4/30/2016: Authors for Indies, Books and Company, Picton, Ontario

4/28/2016: Invisible Toronto Launch, with Brent van Staalduinen, Phoebe Wang, The Holy Oak Cafe

4/27/2016: Guelph, The Bookshelf, with Brent van Staalduinen, and Teri Vlassopolous

4/24/2016: Ottawa launch, with Brent van Staalduinen, Black Squirrel Books and Cafe

4/22/2016: Peterborough launch of The Utility of Boredom, with Brent van Staalduinen, Janette Platana, and Teri Vlassopoulos, The Garnet

11/26/2015: Feathertale Review #16 Launch Party, Milk Glass, 1247 Dundas St. W, Toronto

9/21/2015: Write on the Street, a presentation of Peterborough Artsweek, in the temporary writers’ studio at 386 George Street North, Peterborough

8/6/2015: Halifax, NS, Invisible Double Bill, Lost and Found (2383 Agricola)

6/6/2015: Prose in the Park festival, Ottawa

5/16/2015: Calgary, AB, Loft 112

5/3/2015: Lit Live Reading Series, Homegrown Hamilton (archived audio recording)

4/24/2015: Peterborough launch of What You Need, with Angela Hibbs, and Janette Platana, Gallery in the Attic

4/18/2015: Ottawa launch of What You Need, with Rick Taylor and Sanita Fejzic, Raw Sugar Cafe

4/17/2015: Montreal launch of What You Need, with Andrew Hood, Librairie Drawn and Quarterly

4/16/2015: Toronto launch of What You Need, with Andrew Hood, The Holy Oak Cafe

11/28/2014: The Puritan Presents: Black Friday 2014: A Year-in-Review Celebration

9/12/2013: Peterborough launch of Andrew Sullivan’s All We Want is Everything (with Emma Healey and Spencer Gordon), The Garnet