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Due to health and safety concerns around COVID-19, Word Up is hosting events online until further notice. Please enjoy these previous Zoom events. Check our Upcoming Events page for live, online readings and Open Mics and sign up for our newsletter to receive official event invites.

Word Up Online, November 2020

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Join us as we enjoy the writng of Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug.
Candas Jane Dorsey is the internationally-known and multi-award-winning author of novels Black Wine and Paradigm of Earth; upcoming mystery series The Adventures of Isabel.
Ursula Pflug is author or editor of ten novels, novellas, edited anthologies and story collections. Her fiction has appeared in Canada, the US and the UK, in award winning genre and literary publications including Lightspeed, Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Leviathan, and Bamboo Ridge.

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Word Up Online, October 2020

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Enjoy thriller authors Amy Stuart and Sam Bailey as they share their work and writing advice. Amy Stuart is the #1 bestselling author of three novels, Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here. Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award and winner of the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Fiction Competition, Samantha M. Bailey is the #1 bestselling author of Woman on the Edge. A Toronto-based novelist, journalist and freelance editor, her work has appeared in Now Magazine, The Village Post, and Oxford University Press, among other publications.

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Word Up Online, June 2020

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In June, our featured authors are poet Robert Colman and science fiction writer Claudiu Murgan. Listen to them read their work and take part part in Q&As. Robert Colman is a Newmarket writer and author of three full-length collections of poetry: Democratically Applied Machine (Palimpsest Press 2020), Little Empires (Quattro…

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Word Up Online, May 2020

Female authors featuring online reading series

Word Up Barrie’s month of May, 2020 Zoom reading series with featured authors Elana Wolff and Kate Marshall Flaherty. Elana Wolff is an award winning author of six solo collections of poetry and a collection of essays on poems, and has taught English for Academic Purposes at York University.Author Kate…

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