News & Events
2021
2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
