Participate in lightning talks and workshops around the inspiration and production of creative works in both text and image.Go to full post …read more

International Zine Month and Comics Fair
June 26, 2025

June 26, 2025
Participate in lightning talks and workshops around the inspiration and production of creative works in both text and image.Go to full post …read more

August 12, 2024
Join us and Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin for the release of More Than Two, Second Edition. Cultivating nonmonogamous relationships with kindness and integrity, in conversation with Carrie Jenkins.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Go to full post …read more

Cross & Crows Books welcomes author Mx. Nillin Lore and Matsui de Roo for a virtual reading and discussion of Nillin’s first book, How Do I Sexy?
ABOUT HOW DO I SEXY?
What even is “sexy,” and how do you Go to full post …read more

March 5, 2024
Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors!
Patrick Grace’s debut collection, Deviant, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are Go to full post …read more

June 14, 2023
Paint your bookworm soul with all the colours of the rainbow by checking out these BC titles.Go to full post …read more

August 7, 2020
How do we approach talking to children about complex topics like social justice? We turn to books of course! Rife with beautiful illustrations and rhythmic stories that are easy to follow, children’s books are the perfect way to introduce kids to Go to full post …read more

June 4, 2019
Make the most of Pride Month with reads that inspire and move you.Go to full post …read more

June 25, 2018
We began talking about what the letters L, G, B, T and Q stand for. But when we got to T, a teacher held up his hand, palm out, traffic cop style. “I’m going to stop you right there,” he said.Go to full post …read more

April 2, 2018
Poetic Licence is a special feature highlighting poets during National Poetry Month. Tina Biello is the current Poet Laureate for Nanaimo.Go to full post …read more

March 6, 2018
The “Lammys” celebrate achievement in LGBTQ writing. Go to full post …read more

June 28, 2017
In August 1989, Jane Rule—novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America—summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, a noted gay activist and publisher in Toronto: “It seems to me that what Go to full post …read more

June 12, 2017
In honour of Pride Month in June, Robin Stevenson talks about her award-winning book, Pride: Celebrating Diversity & CommunityGo to full post …read more