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2021
  • March 6, 2021: At Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Festival

2020
  • Alix is a CBC Short Story Prize judge with Rawi Hage and David Bezmozgis
  • Alix's chapbook essay on photography available now
2019
  • July 21, 2019: Reading at Woodbridge Farm, Kingsville, Ontario
  • February 22-24,  2019: At Galiano Island Literary Festival
  • My Name is a Knife is one of Esi Edugyan's picks for 2018
2018
  • November 26,  2018: Alix is on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter (repeated Sunday Dec. 1, podcast at site)
  • November 8: Launch with Ashley Little, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC, 6:30 pm
  • October 29: Reading with Maxime Raymond Bock and Alice Petersen at Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal 
  • October 28: At Ottawa International Writers' Festival
  • October 20-21: At Vancouver Writers' Festival
  • October 1, 2018: In Her Voice reading and interview with Nick Mount, Ben McNally Books, Toronto
  • September 28-29, 2018: Fiction masterclass and reading at Kingston Writers' Festival
  • September 17, 2018:  Reading with Michael Christie, Chris Humphreys, and Lee Henderson, at Russell Books, Victoria, doors at 7 pm
  • September 16, 2018: In conversation with Miriam Toews, Bolen Books, Victoria (tickets in store)
  • September 14-15: Launch with Ian Weir, The Old Courthouse, Kamloops, 6 pm
  • September 13, 2018: Tour kickoff​ and reading at The Bohemian, Kelowna
  • July 2018: "How I Wrote it" at CBC Books
  • July 2018: Interview with the Vancouver Sun
  • July 2018: Review of My Name is a Knife in the Toronto Star
  • July 2018: The audiobook of My Name is a Knife, read by Jesse Einstein, is available
  • July 18, 2018: Interview  with Hazlitt
  • July 18, 2018: Launch party and reading at Mosaic Books, Kelowna, 5-7 pm. All welcome: please RSVP at link
  • July 18, 2018: Interview with CBC Daybreak South, 7:40 am PST
  • July 17, 2018: My Name is a Knife is on sale in stores
  • July 17, 2018: Interview with AM 1150, 8:15 am PST
  • July 2018: My Name is a Knife is on CBC Books' list of summer historical fiction reads
  • July 2018: My Name is a Knife is on CBC Books' 8 Books We Can't Wait to Read in July list
  • July 2018: My Name is a Knife is on Quill and Quire's fall preview list
  • July 2018: My Name is a Knife is on Canadian Living's summer reads list
  • June 2018: My Name is a Knife is on the Toronto Star's summer reads list
  • June 2018: My Name is a Knife is on the Globe and Mail's summer reads list
  • June 8, 2018: New short story at Catapult
  • June 7, 2018: Alix is reading at Russell Books, Victoria, BC, with Dania Tomlinson and Adam Lewis Schroeder
  • March 2018: My Name is a Knife is available for pre-order
  • March 16-17, 2018: Alix is at Words on the Water, Campbell River, BC
2017
  • December 2017: New  short story at Catapult
  • December 7, 2017: Guest reading at Naben Ruthnum's book launch, Mosaic Books, Kelowna, BC, 6:30 pm
  • November 3-5, 2017: Alix is at Kamloops  Writers' Festival
  • October 2017: New short story in Hazlitt
  • August 19-20, 2017: Alix is giving workshops at Spoke Literary Festival, Vernon, BC
  • April 2017: New short story in The Walrus
  • April 2017: Alix's short story wins the CBC Short Story Prize
  • April 2017: Alix has two stories on the CBC Short Story Prize longlist
  • April 29, 2017: At UBC Vancouver Bookstore for Authors for Indies Day
  • April 27, 2017: Meet the Author evening at the Lyceum, Vancouver. Tickets now available
  • January 2017: Memoir in Maclean's and The Millions
​2016
  • November 24, 2016: UBC Alumni Book Club discussion on All True: register at site​
  • October 26, 2016: UBC Alumni Book Club  first meeting on All True: register at site
  • October 25, 2016: UBCO's OneBook Kelowna finale, including reading from sequel, at Third Space, 6 pm
  • October 22, 2016: Hosting Vancouver Writers' Festival panel on War: Aftershocks with Robert Olen Butler, Lynn Kutsukake, and Kevin Patterson,  Revue Stage, 10:30 am
  • October 20, 2016: Historical Friction: The Perils and Pleasures of Writing about the Past. Panel discussion with Hannah Calder, Frances Greenslade, Melanie Murray, and Laisha Rosnau, Okanagan College Kelowna (E202),       6 pm
  • October 14, 2016: Reading at Booked!, Fernie Heritage Library
  • October 12, 2016: UBCO's OneBook Kelowna discussion on campus (Library 237), 5 pm
  • October 3, 2016: UBCO's OneBook Kelowna  opening evening at downtown branch of Okanagan Regional Library, 6 pm
  • August 9, 2016: All True release date in the USA (Ecco / HarperCollins)
  • June 30, 2016: Reading at Kamloops Public Library, 7 pm
  • All True wins the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • All True is among Tracy Chevalier's five favourite frontier novels on Goodreads
  • April 30, 2016: At Munro's Books in Victoria for Authors for Indies Day (12-2 pm)
  • April 15, 2016: Reading at Kitimat Library on BC Book Prizes Tour (7 pm)
  • April 7, 2016: Reading at Pulp Fiction Books, Vancouver with Michael Christie and Andrew F. Sullivan (7 pm)
2015
  • All True is among The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2015 
  • All True is among The National Post's Best Books of 2015
  • All True is longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 
  • All True  wins the Amazon.ca / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award
  • Alix is named one of CBC's 12 Writers to Watch 
  • Walrus Magazine interview podcast
  • thecommentary.ca interview podcast
  • CBC Radio 1's North by Northwest interview podcast
  • October 2, 2015: Interviewing Elizabeth Hay live onstage at Shuswap BookFest, 7 pm at the Salmar Theatre (Salmon Arm)
  • September 27, 2015: Reading at Word Vancouver festival
  • May 23, 2015: Reading and signing at Mosaic Books, 1-3 pm (Kelowna)
  • May 21, 2015: Twitter live Q&A with Amazon.ca finalists, noon EST
  • May 21, 2015: Amazon.ca First Novel Award Evening (Toronto)
  • May 9, 2015: Signing at Chapters Orchard Park, 1-3 pm (Kelowna)
  • April 15, 2015: Talk at One-to-One Literacy Society (Vancouver)
  • March 19, 2015: Reading at Russell Books,  7:30 pm (Victoria)
  • February 26, 2015: Reading at Gallery Vertigo, 7:30 pm (Vernon)
  • February 19, 2015: Launch party for All True , 7 pm  at Bohemian Cafe (Kelowna)
  • February 11, 2015 : Reading at Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Writers Fest Incite series
  • February 10, 2015: All True Not a Lie In It on sale in stores
  • February 2, 2015: Reading with Miriam Toews, Toronto Public Library, Eh List Series
  • Review of All True in The Georgia Straight
  • Review in BC BookWorld
  • Review in Quill and Quire
  • Review in Vancouver Sun
  • Review in National Post
  • Interview in Toronto Star
  • Profile in Quill and Quire
  • Review at CBC Books
  • Review in The Absolute Magazine
  • Review  in Waterloo Record
  • Review in the Globe and Mail
  • Review in Toronto Star
  • All True  among "Top 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read" in the Toronto Star
  • New book trailer for All True
  • All True  a "2015 Book to Watch For" in Montreal Gazette 
  • All True  listed among Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of spring 2015
  • Article on All True in BC Booklook
  • New Pinterest board with historical images ​

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