LITERARY CALENDAR
Saturday, Oct. 22: Calgary author Adam Dreece signs copies of his new sci-fi novel The Man of Cloud 9, Indigo Whyte Avenue, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Indigo, South Common, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22: Maria Jordan MacKeigan signs copies of her book A Princess Wish, a family story about inclusion inspired by her daughters, noon, Audreys Books. Sunday, Oct. 23: Natasha Michaud guides kids through a variety of yoga poses while reading her book The Yoga Alphabet by Go-Ya Kids, 2 p.m., Audreys Books. Tuesday, Oct. 25: Second Coming: Canadian Migration Fiction is an anthology featuring local Edmonton writers Romeo Kaseram, Caterina Edwards, Roxanne Felix-Mah, Anna Mioduchowska and Jasmina Odor, 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Wednesday, Oct. 26: Alberta writer Holly Crichton shares her personal story in No Way to Run, 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Thursday, Oct. 27: Calgary’s Rea Tarvydas launches her debut collection of short fiction with How to Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square, which captures various versions of the expat life, 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Saturday, Oct. 29: Leigh Ann Edwards launches the anticipated third instalment in her Irish Witch series with The Chieftain’s Daughter, 2 p.m., Audreys Books. Sunday, Oct. 30: Stroll of Poets, with Glen Sorestad and Dymphny Dronyk, to kick off the Stroll series of Sunday afternoons with readings and an open mic, 2 p.m., Audreys Books. Wednesday, Nov. 9: Freehand Books celebrates being named Publisher of the Year at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards with a fall bash, with readings by Emily Saso (The Weather Inside) and Clea Young (Teardown), 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Thursday, Nov. 10: Patricia Sandberg launches Sun Dogs and Yellowcake, her non-fiction book about Gunnar Mines, a Cold War uranium mining town in northern Saskatchewan, 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Saturday, Nov. 12: Susanna Pfisterer reads from 50 Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill, her biography of her father, a pioneer in mountain safety in Jasper and Banff, 2 p.m., Audreys Books. Monday, Nov. 14: Calgary writer Lauralyn Chow, who grew up in Edmonton, launches her first short fiction collection, Paper Teeth, about a Chinese-Canadian family in Edmonton in the 1960s and ’70s, 7 p.m., Audreys Books. Tuesday, Nov. 29: Launch of Islamic Law and Muslim Same-Sex Unions, by MacEwan University professor Junaid Jahangir, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., University of Alberta campus, 7-152 Education North, part of the U of A’s Inside/Out Speaker Series. Monday, Dec. 5: The Canadian Literature Centre’s (CLC) Brown Bag Lunch features Larissa Lai, who will be reading in the Student Lounge, Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, noon.