Magnus Theatre presents the world premiere of On Thin Ice by Drew Hayden Taylor. This comedy/thriller follows an Indigenous couple makes their way to an isolated cottage after their car falls through an ice road. They are saved by the arrival of the non-Indigenous cottage owners. Once the injured couple are resuscitated, the cottage owners discover that the “accident” was not necessarily accidental, and the histories and alternative agendas at play converge in a shocking and brutal ending. For more details and to purchase tickets, click here.

On Thin Ice
Magnus Theatre
Thunder Bay, ON
February 12–28, 2026

Join author of eat salt | gaze at the ocean and allostatic load Junie Désil and author Shane Book online for a literary conversation presented by Word Vancouver! For more details, click here.

Word Vancouver Presents Between Weight and Witness
Online
February 25, 2026
7:00 p.m. PST

Junie Désil (author of allostatic load and eat salt | gaze at the ocean) will be the keynote speaker at an event put on by the BC Black History Awareness Society at Victoria’s Baumann Centre. This February, if you’re in Victoria, BC, enjoy an evening of music and literature.

Junie Désil at BC Black History Awareness Society
Baumann Centre, Pacific Opera Victoria
Victoria, BC
February 27, 2026
7:00 p.m. PST

Jeff Derksen, author of Future Works, The Vestiges and more, will be sharing poetry alongside Saba Pakdel at the February instalment of the Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series. For additional information, click here.

Jeff Derksen and Saba Pakdel at Off the Shelf Reading Series
SFU Belzberg Library at Harbour Centre campus
Vancouver, BC
February 27, 2026
Doors at 6:30 p.m. PST, event begins at 7:00 p.m. PST

Award-winning author Drew Hayden Taylor (Open House, Cottagers and Indians, and more) is giving a special talk at Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse at UBC. 

For more information and to register to attend, click here.

White water canoeing down the rivers of Indigenous Literature!?!? A Talk by Drew Hayden Taylor
Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse
Vancouver, BC
March 5, 2026
12 p.m.–2 p.m. PST

On March 8, SFU English presents a poetry reading from Danielle LaFrance, author of #postdildo and the forthcoming collection Verbal Violence, and Steven Seidenberg. For more details, click here.

SFU Presents an Evening of Poetry with Steven Seidenberg and Danielle LaFrance
People’s Co-Op Bookstore
Vancouver, BC
March 8, 2026
7–9 p.m. PDT

Poetry night in Vancouver? Yes please! On March 10, head to Iron Dog Books to hear A Jamali Rad read work from No Signal No Noise, Cecily Nicholson perform poems from Crowd Source, and S F Ho share poems. For more details and to RSVP, click here.

Iron Dog Books
Vancouver, BC
March 10, 2026
Doors at 6:30 p.m.

On March 13, head to Russell Books to enjoy A Jamali Rad featuring at Planet Earth Poetry! Jamali Rad will be sharing poetry from their hybrid collection No Signal No Noise. Now in their 30th season, Planet Earth Poetry is Victoria’s longest-running poetry-only open mic and reading series. Watch this space for more details.

A Jamali Rad at Planet Earth Poetry
Russell Books
Victoria, BC
March 13, 2026
7:00 p.m.

A production of Gracie by Joan MacLeod runs at Fire Exit Theatre in March! Gracie is a dramatic monologue that tells the story of a girl raised in a fundamentalist community that transports child brides between polygamist communities in both Canada and the United States.

For more details on Fire Exit’s production, click here.

Gracie
Engineered Air Theatre @ Werklund Centre
Calgary, AB
March 18–22, 2026

sophie anne edwards, author of Conversations with the Kagawong River, is one of the featured poets at the March 2026 edition of Antler River Poetry at the Landon Branch of the London Public Library! Watch this space for further details.

sophie anne edwards at Antler River Poetry
Landon Branch of the London Public Library
London, ON
March 18, 2026
7 p.m. EDT

Join author and editor Catriona Strang (Unfuckable Lardass, Corked) for a talk at the March session of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive’s Connected Studio series! Build community and learn more about the writing industry. For further details, click here.

Catriona Strang at Connected Studio
Online via Zoom
March 21, 2026
10–11:00 a.m. PST

Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions, will be performing at VERSEFest alongside Paul Vermeersch and Jérôme Melançon! For more information, click here.

VERSeFest Presents Hajer Mirwali, Paul Vermeersch, and Jérome Melançon
Happy Goat Coffee Co. (Laurel)
Ottawa, ON
March 27, 2026
8:30 p.m. EDT

Catch a production of Schoolhouse by Leanna Brodie runs at 4th Line Theatre early summer 2026. Set in 1938 in a one-room schoolhouse, Brodie’s play Schoolhouse introduces a delightful and boisterous group of children who may just have met their match in eighteen-year-old teacher Melita Linton. For more details on 4th Line Theatre’s run of Schoolhouse and to purchase tickets, click here.

Schoolhouse
4th Line Theatre
Millbrook, ON
June 30–July 25, 2026