EVENTS
Upcoming Events
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Teen Workshop Leader for Vancouver Public Library's Writing and Book Camp at Central Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC 9:00 AM-3:00 PM August 10-14
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Featured BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalist with Fellow Finalists Illustrator Maya McKibbon and Author Kim Spencer for Special Author Readings Event, Prince Rupert Library, 101 6th Avenue West, Prince Rupert, BC, Friday May 29, 7:00-9:00 PM
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Featured BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalist with Fellow Finalist Illustrator Maya McKibbin for An Author and Illustrator Talk, Terrace Public Library, 4610 Park Avenue, Terrace BC, Thursday May 28, 6:30-9:00 PM
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Featured BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalist with fellow Finalist Illustrator Maya McKibbin On the Craft of Telling Stories That Matter, Smithers Public Library, 3817 Alfred Avenue, Smithers BC, Wednesday May 27, 7:00-8:30 PM
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Presenter and White Pine Award Nominee for the 2026 Forest of Reading Festival Harbourfront Centre Toronto, May 13, 2026
- Featured Author for Duram Catholic District School Board's White Pine Festival May 12, 2026
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Juror for The Writer's Union of Canada's 2026 Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers
Past Events
- Virtually Visiting Author for Holy Trinity Catholic High School's Forest of Reading White Pine Book Club, March 6, 2026
- Featured Speaker alongside Lenore Rattray and Yvonne Hogenes for a Live Recording and Discussion with moderator by JJ Lee on Tough Stories for Season 2 of the podcast Stand Up Eight, February 26, 2026
- Mentor for The Writer's Union of Canada's Inaugural Creating Mentorship for Deaf and Disabled Writers Program
- Featured Panelist alongside Cheryl Parisien with moderator Luxmy Uthayakumar for A Conversation on Hardship and Resilience through the Forest of Reading's White Pine Program, February 18, 2026
- Featured Panelist alongside Jaz Welch and Daniel Shehori with moderator Laura Farina for SFU's Writing and Publishing Summit hybrid panel The Story of a Book: Production and Publicity, Feburary 9, 2026
- Featured Panelist alongside Catharine Chen and JJ Lee with moderator Laura Farina for SFU's Writing and Publishing Summit hybrid panel The Story of a Book: Writing and Editing, February 9, 2026
- Featured Author alongside Bonnie Jacoby, Nick Perry, Deb Vail, and Daniel Cowper for Words in the Burbs Reading Series, January 22, 2026
- Reader at Western Sky Books' Festive Evening Better This Year Christmas Reading, Thursday December 4, 2025
- Featured Author on Isabella Mori's Free Online Reading Series A Word About Mental Health, November 24, 2025
- Workshop Facilitator for the FOLD Kids Bookfest Virtual Event: Finding True Stories in Everyday Life with Léa Taranto, November 6, 2025
- Visiting Author for Authors in the Schools Program Event at Whistler Secondary School, November 3, 2025
- Featured Panelist alongside Whitney Garnder, Mahtab Narsimhan, and Trevor Atkins for Whistler Writer's Festival Reading Event 13: The Honest Voice, Novemeber 1, 2025
- Tabling Author at Richmond Public Library's author booth event Writers for Readers, October 7, 2025
- Featured Panelist alongside Dr. Keiko Honda and Miranda Newman for The Writer's Union of Canada Webinar Navigating Publishing as a Writer with a Disability, September 24, 2025
- Featured Author Alongside Tanya Boteju for Word Vancouver Event Voices of Courage, YA, September 20, 2025
- Contributor Reader for The Fiddlehead's Special Creative Nonfiction Issue Launch Celebration, September 20, 2025
- Featured Author Alongside Samantha Jones, Drew McEwan, and Madelaine Caritas Longman for virtual event, An Evening of Poetry and Literarture, July 26, 2025
- Featured Author Alongside Chelsea Comeau for Spoken INK Reading Series, July 20, 2025
- Featured Performer at Parallel Visions Exhibit, July 15, 2025
- Reader at Burnaby Heights Open Mic at Peaked Pies July 13, 2025
- Informal Signing at Noorongji Books June 20, 2025
- Featured Author Alongside Natalie Lim for Pages and Passages Reading Series, June 17, 2025
- Toronto launch for Léa's debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, in conversation with Drew McEwan, May 29, 2025
- Vancouver Launch for Léa's debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, with guest reader Yilin Wang moderated by Catherine Lewis,
May 21, 2025
- Presenter for Vancouver Writer's Fest Writers in the Classroom Event at Alcuin College May 20, 2025
- Featured Performer at Connection Salon's Mad Arts Coffee House Series April 24, 2025
- Featured Performer at Poetic Pairings, February 19, 2025
- Featured Reader at Vancouver launch of Upon a Midnight Clear: More Christmas Epiphanies November 16, 2024
- Featured Reader and Panelist at the joint book launch Diaspora Debuts, National Public Reading Program,
November 12, 2024
- Featured Reader and Panelist at the launch of Yilin Wang's book, The Lantern and the Night Moths,
Vancouver Public Library's Uplift Asian 2024 Series, April 3, 2024
- Featured Reader at Real Vancouver Writers' Series Winter 2023, November 23, 2023
- Featured Reader at Small Gods Storyteller Series vol. 7, November 5, 2023
- Featured Reader at The Writer's Studio Reading Series October Session, October 16, 2023
- Featured Reader at Room Magazine’s 43.3 Issue Zoom Launch, October 24, 2020
- Featured Performer at Chagall Exhibit, October 20, 2016
- Featured Performer at New Work from the Road Exhibit, January 28, 2015
- Featured Performer at Lashon Hara Exhibit, June 19, 2014
- Featured Performer at Rain Exhibit, September 27, 2012
- Featured Reader at The Liar’s Volume 9 Fall 2012 Issue Launch Party, December 10, 2012
