2025 Spring ForeWord

Friday, April 25 - Monday, April 28, 2025

Storytelling, readings, conversations, and workshops in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Notes: All our venues are wheelchair accessible, and offer gender neutral bathroom facilities. Our venues are reachable by Halifax Transit. If price is a barrier to attendance, or if there are other ways we can accommodate and facilitate your enjoyment of these events, please email us.

Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are transferable.

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With Catherine Bush, Vinh Nguyen, Fazeela Jiwa, Monica Njoku, Stephanie Domet, and Carole Rankin
Friday, April 25
7:00PM – 9:00PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
Cafe Lara (2347 Agricola Street, Halifax)
$10.00
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With Christine Wu, Jessica Bebenek, and Clare Goulet
Friday, April 25
7:00PM – 8:30PM
Trident Booksellers & Cafe (1256 Hollis St, Halifax)
$0.00
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Saturday, April 26
All Day
We love our local independent bookstores, and we support them every day, but on Independent Bookstore Day we show them a bit of additional love. Our Spring ForeWord bookseller is the King’s Co-op Bookstore—hard to find, in the basement of the New Academic Building at the University of King’s College—but worth the search, every time.
A fiction workshop with Catherine Bush
Saturday, April 26
10:00AM – 12:00PM
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Road, Halifax)
$25.00
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With Vinh Nguyen, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Fazeela Jiwa, Chad Lucas, Rebecca Thomas, Sue Goyette, Grayer Parsons, Eris Davis, and Asha Abdosh
Saturday, April 26
6:30PM – 9:00PM (Doors open 6:00PM)
Park Place Theatre, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive (in Point Pleasant Park, lower parking lot)
$10.00
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With Emma Donoghue, K.R. Byggdin, and Jaime Burnet
Sunday, April 27
7:00PM – 9:00PM (Doors open 6:30PM)
Park Place Theatre, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive (in Point Pleasant Park, lower parking lot)
$10.00
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With Emma Donoghue
Monday, April 28
Doors Open at 11:30AM. Conversation and lunch from 12:00PM to 1:00PM, followed by book sales and signing.
The Carleton (1685 Argyle Street, Halifax)
$35.00
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