For more than 100 years, McClelland & Stewart has helped to shape and champion Canada’s cultural conversation. In partnership with TIFA and Flying Books, the McClelland & Stewart Author Salon is a gathering of readers, writers, media, festival, and agency partners in celebration of their community, their authors, and their dynamic and internationally acclaimed catalogue.

Join us on June 3rd for an engaging series of conversations with seven captivating authors, led by CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud. 

In OTHER WORLDS, André Alexis conjures up worlds – real, invented, and uncanny – in this ingenious, electrifying collection. 

Gabrielle Drolet’s LOOK MA, NO HANDS is a humorous, profound debut memoir about chronic pain, accessibility, and young adulthood, by an acclaimed essayist and cartoonist.

Part coming-of-age novel, part searing examination of a community finding itself, Kyle Edwards’ SMALL CEREMONIES is a tantalizing and heartbreaking debut. 

Thrilling and timely, Jon Hickey’s BIG CHIEF is a gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.

In NO FAULT, Haley Mlotek deftly combines her personal story with wry, searching social and literary exploration to offer an intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary relationships: divorce.

A passionate advocate for gender equity, and one of our most respected journalists, Elizabeth Renzetti, explores the most pressing issues facing women in Canada today with humour and heart in WHAT SHE SAID. 

Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A REAL EMERGENCY is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of Joanna Sokol’s career.

Doors Open for a pre-show reception at 6 p.m.