Events

April 25th, 2026, 1:00 pm @ Indigo Regina Please join us at Indigo Regina on April 25th to help us celebrate the launch of Chelsea Coupal’s second poetry collection, U ALIVE! Jes Battis will be hosting this event, with guest readers Courtney Bates-Hardy, Tara Gereaux, and Tea Gerbeza.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 7:00 PM at Shelf Life Books, Calgary. Join Thistledown Press and Shelf Life Books for the launch of Elizabeth J. Haynes’ Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel! This Thistledown Press 50th Anniversary Event will feature an author reading, book signing, and conversation with Joan Crate. Read the event listing

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM, McNally Robinson Saskatoon, Travel Alcove & YouTube Join us for the Saskatoon launch of Lloyd Ratzlaff’s poetry collection Walking Upstream (Thistledown Press), with special guest Rita Bouvier and host Elizabeth Phillips. This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. This collection by the author of three books

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 at 7 PMat OWL’S NEST BOOKS, CALGARY Join Thistledown Press at Owl’s Nest Books for a middle-grade novel launch party for Leanne Shirtliffe’s The Genius Hour Project. Leanne will be in conversation with host Ali Bryan! ABOUT THE BOOK Eleven-year-old Frazzy is mostly coping with being bullied and not always fitting in

Join Thistledown Press and Art Gallery of Regina for the double book launch of Marlis Wesseler’s The Beech Forest and Connie Gault’s The Rasmussen Papers! Come by for a lovely evening of readings, book signing, and conversation! When: June 28 at 7PMWhere: Art Gallery of Regina (2420 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK S4T 7S7)THIS IS A

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 7:00 pmMcNally Robinson Saskatoon, Travel Alcove & YouTube Join MARLIS WESSLER and CONNIE GAULT for the joint launch of their new novels, THE BEECH FOREST and THE RASMUSSEN PAPERS. This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The Beech Forest

Thursday, June 13 at 7:00 PM (MDT)Shelf Life Books1302 4 St SW 100Calgary, AB Canada Join us at Shelf Life Books for a triple book launch featuring What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor (Thistledown Press),The Head by Robyn Braun (Great Plains Publications), and Farm: Lot 23 by Tonya Lailey (Gaspereau Press). ABOUT THE BOOKS THE HEADOn the morning of her

Thistledown Press is pleased to present the Thistledown Reader’s Club! In this virtual book club, we’ll bring in acclaimed authors for exclusive, behind-the-scenes conversations on their work. We are so excited to announce the inaugural meeting of the Thistledown Reader’s Club! On Tuesday, September 12, join award-winning Canadian author Sharon Butala for a conversation on

On Friday, December 16 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and author, librettist, and playwright, Phoebe Tsang for the launch of Setting Fire to Water (Thistledown Press). This debut collection of stories that illuminates the lives of those who exist inside otherness: shifting restlessly from dark to light and back again, written in

This event is free, and will take place on THURSDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2022 in the Peña Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (UBC Library, Vancouver Campus) between 7PM-8:30PM. Refreshments will be served! Join Thistledown Press & Annick Press for a double author reading featuring Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt, author of Peacekeeper’s Daughter, and Michelle Barker, author of My Long List

This event is free, and will take place on WEDNESDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2022 at the Trinity Western House (9272 Glover Rd, Langley, BC — adjacent to the Fraser River and opposite the Fort Pub and Grill) between 4PM-6PM. Join Thistledown Press & Annick Press for a double author reading featuring Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt, author of Peacekeeper’s

Check out the audio clip here to listen to John Bemrose speak about his novel The River Twice with Jason D’Souza, host of CBC Ontario’s Fresh Air.

John Bemrose will be appearing at Ottawa International Writers Festival on Sunday, October 23 at 3 PM at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St)! John will be in conversation with Roy MacSkimming on the topic of his latest novel, The River Twice. You can find out more and purchase tickets here.

Online via Zoom webinar – THURSDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 7:00 PM CST. Join SaskBooks for an evening with Métis filmmaker and poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp. Tegenkamp will read from her debut poetry collection, Girl running, in conjunction with a screening of an accompanying “film poem.” Register at: bit.ly/Girlrunning